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Financial Simulation Modeling in Excel, + Website: A Step-by-Step Guide (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Regardless of where I work, simulation has crept into my financial career. After nearly a decade of working with it in many capacities I’ve found it to be a mixed blessing. In many investment companies when the term simulation is simply brought up there are a variety of reactions. The two most visible camps of thought...

Fast-Tracking Your Career: Soft Skills for Engineering and IT Professionals (Professional Engineering Communication Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Fast-Tracking Your Career provides engineers and IT professionals with a complete set of soft skills they can use to become more effective on the job and gain recognition from management and colleagues. The 11 core skills covered here are accompanied by more than 40 detailed guidelines on how to master those skills. The book offers...

Interest Rate Markets: A Practical Approach to Fixed Income (Wiley Trading)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

How to build a framework for forecasting interest rate market movements

With trillions of dollars worth of trades conducted every year in everything from U.S. Treasury bonds to mortgage-backed securities, the U.S. interest rate market is one of the largest fixed income markets in the world.

Interest Rate Markets:...

Building Engaged Team Performance: Align Your Processes and People to Achieve Game-Changing Business Results

McGraw-Hill, 2010

Harness the Power of Your Most Valuable Resource—Your Workforce!

Process improvement approaches like Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise have worked wonders for countless organizations, but in the drive for true excellence, these approaches are only one important part of the formula.

Building Engaged...

The Financial Crisis of Our Time (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)

Oxford University Press, 2011

In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the global economy with disaster in 2008. In the past few years, millions of people have lost very substantial portions of their wealth. And while the markets have rebounded considerably, they are...

Smart Is the New Rich: If You Can't Afford It, Put It Down

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

A practical way to think about money today

Author and CNN veteran money correspondent Christine Romans believes we should live by three qualifiers: living within our means, living with less debt, and being less vulnerable. While some may say this is old-fashioned, today it's hard to argue with Romans' view.

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Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

Princeton Press, 2013

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political...

The American Monetary System: An Insider's View of Financial Institutions, Markets and Monetary Policy

Springer, 2014

Today’s financial system is considerably more complex than in years past, as new financial instruments have been introduced that are not well understood even by the people and institutions that invest in them. Numerous high-risk opportunities are available, and the number of people who unwittingly wander into such ventures seems to grow...

Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies

For Dummies, 2010

Put the power of Excel formulas and functions to work for you!

Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day-to-day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15-year and 30-year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly...

Simulation and Optimization in Finance: Modeling with MATLAB, @Risk, or VBA

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

An introduction to the theory and practice of financial simulation and optimization

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the use of simulation and optimization methods in the financial industry. Applications include portfolio allocation, risk management, pricing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty.

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Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear and engaging prose, explains how the credit mess happened beginning with the mortgage...

Introduction to Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Securities

Academic Press, 2013

In Introduction to Mortgages & Mortgage Backed Securities, author Richard Green combines current practices in real estate capital markets with financial theory so readers can make intelligent business decisions. After a behavioral economics chapter on the nature of real estate decisions, he explores mortgage products, processes,...

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