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Efficient Frontier Related Books
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The Art of
Asset Allocation
by David M. Darst
Average Customer Review:
Price:
$26.37
Book Description
An accessible guide to portfolio-enhancing asset management
in bull or bear markets Asset allocation is a crucial and
continually popular topic among investors of all types. The
Art of Asset Allocation is a practical, hands-on guide that
shows finance professionals and individual investors how to
achieve an asset balance designed to thrive in a wide range
of financial market environments. David Darst, author of the
highly acclaimed The Complete Bond Book, provides a
comprehensive framework for using asset allocation
principles in bull, bear, or non-trending markets. This
complete asset allocation guide contains: Differences
between tactical and strategic asset allocation--and the
advantages of each Effective tools for determining asset
allocation strategies Asset class descriptions and
historical risk and return statistics for all major asset
classes Rebalancing guidelines Investor behavior analysis
Practical financial worksheets, charts, and other
illustrative tools An annotated guide to traditional and
Internet-based information sources.
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Dictionary of Financial Risk
Management, Third Edition
by Gary L. Gastineau, Mark P.
Kritzman
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Price: $34.97
Book
Description
Gary Gastineau and Mark Kritzman team up once again for the
third edition of this classic reference tool designed for
financial analysts and managers. Anyone involved in
financial risk management must have a proper understanding
of the words, terms, and phrases used in this fast paced
field and Dictionary of Financial Risk Management clearly
provides that understanding. Risk management terminology is
a part of almost any financial operation, including cash,
forwards/futures, swaps, options and is found in many
disciplines: probability and statistics, tax and financial
accounting, and law. The vocabulary of the risk manager
continues to expand with the creation of new products and
new concepts. This volume carefully defines and illustrates
all the words and phrases that financial professionals need
to know and understand. The Dictionary of Financial Risk
Management includes listings of common acronyms, profit/loss
diagrams of new financial instruments, and extensive
coverage of derivatives and quantitative techniques. This
invaluable reference guide provides comprehensive
definitions of the key terms and concepts that many
financial professionals need to know on a day-to-day basis.
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Global Asset Allocation
by Jess Lederman (Editor),
Robert A. Klein (Editor)
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Price: $52.50
Book
Description
Buying this book could be the smartest investment you make
this season. If that sounds like a bold claim, just take a
look at the list of contributors. In it you'll find the
names of twenty-nine of the world's foremost experts in
asset allocation. Over the course of twenty chapters, these
accomplished institutional investors, academics, analysts,
and traders school you in all of the hottest new portfolio
management techniques now in use around the globe.
Not another abstruse discourse on the theoretical pros and
cons of asset allocation, Global Asset Allocation is a
working, nuts-and-bolts guide for institutional investors.
It outfits you with a set of versatile new tools and
techniques designed to solve real-world problems and guide
your portfolio management decision-making.
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The Handbook of Alternative
Assets
by Mark J. P. Anson
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Price: $44.07
Book
Description
This book discusses and describes four types of alternative
assets: hedge funds, private equity, credit derivatives, and
commodity futures. Hedge funds and private equity are the
best known of the alternative assets, but certainly not the
only alternative assets available. The author explores each
one of these alternative asset classes in detail, providing
practicaal advice along with useful research.
Book Info
Offers a comprehensive examination of the four major classes
as presented in the 'Handbook of Alternative Assets'. Merges
data and strategies scattered in numerous volumes into one
handy guide for the serious investor. Discusses hedge funds,
private equity, credit derivatives, and commodity and
managed futures.
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The Informed Investor
by Frank, III Armstrong
Average Customer Review:
Price: $12.21
Amazon Editorial Review
Most people are scared stiff by investment risk. But what
most people don't know is that the biggest risk is simply
investor behavior. Irrational and fearful, investors
routinely chase after investment rainbows offering high
returns with zero risk...or sell off stocks in a panic when
the market is down...or horde their money in T-bills, which
historically have just barely outpaced inflation.
The only way to eliminate such self-destructive behavior is
to get hard facts on how the stock market really works.
Fortunately, anyone can learn -- not just the analysts on
Wall Street -- with The Informed Investor. Packed
with eye-opening charts and graphs, this powerful book shows
how to develop an investment strategy that yields the
highest return with the lowest risk. The Informed
Investor:
* Replaces "voodoo investing" methods with proven real-world
strategies and groundbreaking academic research. * Provides
a thorough education in financial economics. * Explains how
to allocate assets to achieve specific goals. * Simplifies
difficult subjects with clear language and straight-shooting
advice.
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The Intelligent Asset
Allocator
by William J. Bernstein
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Price: $19.77
Amazon Editorial Review
A practicing neurologist in remote coastal Oregon, Bernstein
comes to the problems of saving and investing not from a
broker's perspective, but as someone who had to figure this
out himself, from first principles up.
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Statistics and Finance
by David Ruppert
Price: $79.95
Amazon Editorial Review
This textbook emphasizes the applications of statistics and
probability to finance. Students are assumed to have had a
prior course in statistics, but no background in finance or
economics. The basics of probability and statistics are
reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as
regression, ARMA and GARCH models, the bootstrap, and
nonparametric regression using splines, are introduced as
needed. The book covers the classical methods of finance
such as portfolio theory, CAPM, and the Black-Scholes
formula, and it introduces the somewhat newer area of
behavioral finance. Applications and use of MATLAB and SAS
software are stressed.The book will serve as a text in
courses aimed at advanced undergraduates and masters
students in statistics, engineering, and applied mathematics
as well as quantitatively oriented MBA students. Those in
the finance industry wishing to know more statistics could
also use it for self-study.
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The Successful Investor Today
by Larry E. Swedroe
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Price: $17.13
Amazon Editorial Review
What does it take to achieve superior performance and become
a successful investor? Rather than great stock pricing or
market timing skills, it is far better for you to understand
how the markets work and how to make them work best for you.
Larry E. Swedroe argues that the right strategy never
changes, no matter whether the bull is stampeding or the
bear has emerged from hibernation.
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