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The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need: The Way Smart Money Invests Today

St Martin Press, 2005

Investment professional Larry E. Swedroe describes the crucial difference between "active" and "passive" mutual funds, and tells you how you can win the investment game through long-term investments in such indexes as the S&P 500 instead of through the active buying and selling of stocks.

A revised...

Handbook of Financial Risk Management: Simulations and Case Studies

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

An authoritative handbook on risk management techniques and simulations as applied to financial engineering topics, theories, and statistical methodologies

The Handbook of Financial Risk Management: Simulations and Case Studies illustrates the practical implementation of simulation techniques in the banking and...

Invest Like an Institution: Professional Strategies for Funding a Successful Retirement

Apress, 2013

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...

Managing Extreme Financial Risk: Strategies and Tactics for Going Concerns

Academic Press, 2013

Managing Extreme Financial Risk addresses the need for better management strategies in light of increased market risk and volatility in financial institutions' revenue models. Top officials from the financial and regulatory industries point to real corporate issues, showing how institutions react to financial crises. From...

Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R (Statistics in Practice)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

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:

The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

Crown, 2012

A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley's most innovative entrepreneurs.

The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The...

Tactical Trend Trading: Strategies for Surviving and Thriving in Turbulent Markets

Apress, 2012

"Follow trends and make money, or don't follow trends and don't make money. Robert Robbins wants investors to follow trends. His effort is to be saluted." —Michael W. Covel, bestselling author of Trend Following, The Complete Turtle Trader, and Trend Commandments

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Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011

In my twenty-five-year consulting practice with about half the Fortune 500 firms, and in coaching executives and entrepreneurs globally, I’ve found a fascinating phenomenon: not enough people prepare for success!

They prepare for failure, disappointment, delay, and even cataclysm, but not necessarily for...

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...

Perception-based Data Mining and Decision Making in Economics and Finance (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2007

The primary goal of this book is to present to the scientific and management communities a selection of applications using more recent Soft Computing (SC) and Computing with Words and Perceptions (CWP) models and techniques meant to solve the economics and financial problems. The selected examples could also serve as a starting point...

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

FT Press, 2010

Looking ahead to retirement? Depending on your circumstances and your age, you may no longer have any margin for error. And your emotions and irrational behavior could be perpetuating a dangerous cycle of overspending and rising debt that may shatter whatever vision of retirement you still have. Welcome to the world of...

Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life

FT Press, 2010

The arrival of this book and its message, I suspect, could not have been better timed. We’re more than two years into this great recession, and many of us are more confused than ever about our personal finances. With the financial and employment landscapes evolving before us, it’s difficult to return to the old, prescriptive...

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