Investment and securities

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.

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 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds.

Today, international investment law consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world.

For many of us, giving significant money away for promoting change is not a practical option.

In Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E.

Decision-makers in business and economics face a staggering array of problems.

Empire of the Fund is an expose and examination of the way we save now.

Empire of the Fund is an expose and examination of the way we save now.

This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments.

This book provides an overview of private real estate markets and investments.

Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States.

Consumer Credit and the American Economy examines the economics, behavioral science, sociology, history, institutions, law, and regulation of consumer credit in the United States.

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.

During the past few decades, private equity (PE) has attracted considerable attention from investors, practitioners, and academicians.

Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions provides the first major holistic examination and interdisciplinary analysis of sovereign wealth funds.

Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are among the most complex of all financial instruments.

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

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

Forward-thinking investors are constantly looking for the next BRIC-what foreign market is on the brink of expansive growth?

Forward-thinking investors are constantly looking for the next BRIC-what foreign market is on the brink of expansive growth?

All investments carry with them some degree of risk.

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.

This book puts economics to work on the daily problems faced by investors, traders, speculators and brokers as they wrestle with increasingly complex financial markets.

Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes.

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

With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world.

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

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In an efficient market, all stocks should be valued at a price that is consistent with available information.

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

Since 1981, over 100 governments around the world have raised over $1 trillion through the sale of SOEs to private investors.

Since financial myths exploded in the 1980s, the perspective of time creates a unique opportunity to update and expand the analysis begun in Glenn Yago's 1991 book, Junk Bonds: How High Yield Securities Restructured Corporate America (Oxford University Press).

What is the return to investing in the stock market?

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

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.

This book puts economics to work on the daily problems faced by investors, traders, speculators and brokers as they wrestle with increasingly complex financial markets.

The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) invocation of its administrative authority, and self-regulatory episodic action.

The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) invocation of its administrative authority, and self-regulatory episodic action.

In recent years the field of finance has exploded with innovation.

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While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on the struggle to organize unions, this work offers a more diverse and quantitative examination of the labor market.

Even as relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China continue to be strained, investment by Taiwanese businesses in China is growing every year.

This collection explores the expansion of Japanese multinational firms into Asia, a process which paralleled the region's growth as a major economic region.

Wall Street Polices Itself: How Securities Firms Manage the Legal Hazards of Competitive Pressures explains how the self-regulatory system for U.

These papers provide a cutting-edge overview of general issues regarding world capital markets, experience in developing countries, and capital market regulation, which many economists believe could turn into the number one topic in international business and economics.

Junk bonds burst into the nation's headlines as the fastest growing and most controversial financial instruments of the 1980s.

Ein Buch, das auf die IHK-Weiterbildungsprüfung „Fachberater/in für Finanzdienstleistun-gen“ vorbereitet und gleichzeitig „Praxiswissen Finanzdienstleistungen“ heißt – widerspricht sich das nicht?

This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market, private equity, which has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet is largely poorly understood.