Pro SharePoint 2010 Administration is a practical guide to SharePoint 2010 for intermediate to advanced SharePoint administrators and power users, covering the out-of-the-box feature set and capabilities of Microsoft's collaboration and business productivity platform.
Adobe® Acrobat® X is an essential tool in today’s electronic workflow. As in
earlier versions, you can use Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro to convert
virtually any document to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), preserving
the exact look and content of the original, complete with fonts and graphics.
Additionally,...
All too often, when investors go in search of investment advice, they are met with television personalities and so-called investment “gurus” who do little more than push the latest and greatest scheme to retire rich. Your retirement funds—in the form of IRAs, 401(k)s, SEP or Simple IRAs, and other plans you can direct to...
Whether you're a member of the investment committee of an endowment fund—for a college, hospital, or local civic group—or a member of the investment committee of a pension fund or foundation, the bottom line is that you've been entrusted with making investment decisions that, within an acceptable level of risk, should maximize the...
In the past, most project management books have focused on managing one project, but in today’s increasingly busy and stressful world, it has become necessary to calmly and efficiently manage more than one project—often several projects—successfully at the same time. This learned skill is valuable not only for project...
In today's increasingly competitive financial world, successful risk management, portfolio management, and financial structuring demand more than up-to-date financial know-how. They also call for quantitative expertise, including the ability to effectively apply mathematical modeling tools and techniques, in this case credit.
Although the basic purposes of finance, and the nature of the core instruments used in
attaining them, are relatively constant, recent years have seen an explosion in complexity of
both products and techniques.
A number of forces are driving this explosion. The first is internationalization encompassing
a dramatic growth in...
Market realities have forced many financial institutions (and will force many others in the future) to change the way they manage their portfolios of credit assets. Evidence of this change can be seen in the rapid growth of secondary loan trading, credit derivatives, and loan securitizations. Less obvious–but far more important–is the...
Until recently, sales managers received no specific training for their jobs. However, selling has become more complex with the emergence of regulations and more sophisticated customers. Sales managers need to inspire and achieve sales results by managing teams of professionals and other resources. To do so, they need guidance on dealing with...
Introduces the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, and provides a plethora of R code examples that enable the reader to replicate the results featured throughout the book.
Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R:
Are you a newcomer to XML, hoping to learn about all the excitement? If the answer is “Yes,” you will not be disappointed. By the time you have finished reading Mastering XML, you will have an excellent grasp of the critical elements of XML and probably be writing XML code. You’ll also have learned about each...
It's all about hedge funds—what they are, why they are so successful, and how you can become a hedge fund investor for as little as $25,000
Hedge funds are among today's most controversial investment vehicles. They are also among the most successful, significantly outperforming the S&P 500...
