Investment and securities

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars.

The new edition of Janette Rutterford's classic textbook has been updated to take account of all practical, technical and legal developments since the last edition was published.

Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada's lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk.

The solar industry is heating up.

Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or a privatized system of personal accounts.

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States.

Foreign investment increased from 17 percent of the capital of industrial corporations in Imperial Russia in 1880 to 47 percent in 1914, coinciding with the rapid development of Russian industrialization before World War I.

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers.

The international flow of long-term private capital has increased dramatically in the 1990s.

Over the past decade, foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world has nearly tripled, and with this surge have come dramatic shifts in FDI flows.

This timely volume addresses three important recent trends in the internationalization of United States equity markets: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization as countries such as Japan come to rely more than ever before on markets in equities and bonds at the expense of banks; and the opening of national financial systems of newly industrializing countries to international financial flows and institutions, as governments remove capital controls and other barriers.

This book provides valuable information and analysis to managers, policymakers, and investment counselors in the rapidly expanding field of pension funding.

Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada's lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk.

Safe assets constitute an essential component of the contemporary, international financial system and are vital to its stability.

Real estate is typically classified as an alternative to more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds.

Real estate is typically classified as an alternative to more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds.

Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares.

Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago.

In Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing, Professor Andrew Ang presents a comprehensive, new approach to the age-old problem of where to put your money.

Sovereign wealth funds are a growing and dynamic force in international finance.

Venture capital (VC) refers to investments provided to early-stage, innovative, and high growth start-up companies.

The term private equity typically includes investments in venture capital or growth investment, as well as late stage, mezzanine, turnaround (distressed), and buyout investments.

This volume critically re-examines the profession's understanding of asset bubbles in light of the global financial crisis of 2007-09.

In Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E.

The way in which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook.

Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago.

Jonathan A.

Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe.

Venture capital (VC) refers to investments provided to early-stage, innovative, and high growth start-up companies.

The term private equity typically includes investments in venture capital or growth investment, as well as late stage, mezzanine, turnaround (distressed), and buyout investments.

The topic of Entrepreneurial Finance involves many issues, including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, market booms and busts, public policy and international differences in entrepreneurial finance stemming from differences in laws, institutions and culture.

Wall Street is an unending source of legend--and nightmares.

Working Capital Management provides a general framework that will help managers understand working capital using a comprehensive approach that links operating decisions to their financial implications and to the overall business strategy.

The stereotype of the "e;angel investor"e; is a retired wealthy entrepreneur who sees potential, asks tough questions, takes a large stake, and in a few years makes a massive return in an IPO.

In spite of theoretical benefits, Markowitz mean-variance (MV) optimized portfolios often fail to meet practical investment goals of marketability, usability, and performance, prompting many investors to seek simpler alternatives.

There are many textbooks for business students that provide a systematic, introductory development of the economics of financial markets.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world.

The book offers broad understanding and unique insights into the REITs industry.

The Analysis of Structured Securities presents the first intellectually defensible framework for systematic assessment of the credit quality of structured securities.

What is the return to investing in the stock market?

This book uses data from a multitude of countries to explain how and why hedge fund markets differ around the world.

This volume critically re-examines the profession's understanding of asset bubbles in light of the global financial crisis of 2007-09.

In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds.

This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it.

Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes.

In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds.

The subprime crisis has shown that the sophisticated risk management models used by banks and insurance companies had serious flaws.

Working Capital Management provides a general framework that will help managers understand working capital using a comprehensive approach that links operating decisions to their financial implications and to the overall business strategy.

This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it.

For all but the most credit-worthy companies, it is more efficient to finance large pools of assets that have predictable behavioral characteristics through non-standard arrangements.