Modelling single-name and multi-name credit derivatives

"Modelling Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives" presents an up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the pricing and risk-management of credit derivatives. It is both a detailed introduction to credit derivative modeling and a reference for those who are already practitioners. This book is up-to-date ...

El desgobierno de los fondos de inversión

En la obra se reconoce la necesidad que tienen los juristas, si se quieren enterar de lo que está pasando, de conocer y trabajar, eso sí, con enorme cautela, con datos (los grandes números) y conceptos (contables y financieros) que escapan a su formación tradicional ...

The long and short of hedge funds

a complete guide to hedge fund evaluation and investing

This is an innovative A to Z guide to the world of hedge funds. "The Long and Short of Hedge Funds" presents readers with a unique look at these investment vehicles, the people who run them, and those who provide services to them. This book ...

Hedge hogging

"Barton Biggs writes about markets with greater style, clarity, and insight than any other observer of the Wall Street scene. His new book, "Hedgehogging", entertains immensely even as it provides countless valuable lessons regarding hedge funds and the investment world they inhabit." - David F. Swensen ...

Análisis técnico

operar con éxito en acciones y futuros

El análisis técnico es una herramienta indispensable para todos aquellos que no les guste verse sorprendidos por el mercado, pues detecta rápidamente los cambios de tendencia del mismo. Permite al inversor disponer de técnicas, estrategias y métodos que le garantizan, con un elevado grado de ...

Pop finance

investment clubs and the new investir populism

During the 1990's, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. "Pop Finance" follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of ...

Create your own ETF hedge fund

a do-it-yourself ETF strategy for private wealth management

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in - due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund will allow you to ...

Hedge fund due diligence

professional tools to investigate hedge fund managers

Amaranth, Aurora, The Manhattan Fund, Bayou. To anyone invested in or interested in investing in hedge funds, these names evoke one thought: blow-ups. Knowing that these and other hedge funds have faltered is not particularly valuable; knowing how to avoid funds that might blow up ...

Technical analysis tools

creating profitable trading system

In Technical Analysis Tools, professional trader Mark Tinghino cuts through the clutter. First, he demystifies the essential technical approaches such as chart patterns, indicators, Market Profile, and Elliott Wave. He also introduces a new instrument of his own: the cyclical model, which helps identify trend ...

The investor's dilemma

how mutual funds are betraying your trust and what to do about it

'Not since Graham and Dodd has an author defined investment principles as clearly as Lou Lowenstein in "The Investor's Dilemma". Not only does he comprehensively dissect the ways careless and impulsive investors have been misled and cheated by self-serving fund managements, but Lowenstein names ...

Hedge funds

an analytic perspective

The hedge-fund industry has grown dramatically over the last two decades, with more than eight thousand funds now controlling close to two trillion dollars. Originally intended for the wealthy, these private investments have now attracted a much broader following that includes pension funds and retail ...

Fooling some of the people all of the time

a long short story

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn#s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street ...

Investors and markets

portfolio choices, asset prices, and investment advice

In "Investors and Markets", Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. But until now asset-price analysis has largely been inaccessible to everyone except PhDs in financial economics. In this ...

The econometric analysis of hedge fund returns

an errors-in-variables perspective

In this book, we present several new empirical models and new estimation methods for financial models of returns. Our new empirical models are based on a generalized version of the Hausman test using higher moments and cumulants. Our methods rely on higher moments and cumulants ...

ETFs for the long run

what they are, how they work, and simple strategies fro successful long-term investing

Praise for "ETFs For The Long Run": 'As the title of the book suggests, ETFs are going to be an increasingly important reality for a broad class of investors in coming years. This book offers the reader real understanding of this growing force in our ...

Annuity markets

The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of the economy: an increasing number of elderly persons supported by fewer young people. Governments around the world are responding to this impending crisis by shifting their pension policies away from pay-as- you-go systems towards individual savings ...

Fundamentos de inversión

La obra se ha elaborado bajo la motivación de que sea un material de apoyo básico en la preparación, por parte del alumno de la UNED, de esta disciplina. Así, entre sus contenidos, destacamos la visión esquemática de cada uno de los temas de forma ...

Conocer los productos financieros de inversión colectiva

tipos de fondos y sociedades de inversión, fondos de gestión alternativa, análisis y selección

Conocer los productos financieros de inversión colectivapresenta y analiza los productos de inversión colectiva que son los grandes canalizadores del ahorro y por tanto también son las instituciones de mayor poder inversor.

Investing in an uncertain economy for dummies

"Investing in an Uncertain Economy For Dummies" provides investors with focused, individualized investment strategies that enable them to conquer indecision and protect and strengthen their current financial holdings. With advice from 200 top independent financial advisors, empowered readers can make effective asset allocation decisions in ...

Fundamentos de inversiones

Fundamentos de inversiones se centra en el inversionista individual. Este enfoque proporciona a los lectores la información que necesitan para desarrollar, implementar y supervisar un programa de inversión exitoso. También proporciona un fundamento sólido de conceptos, herramientas y técnicas básicas. Los usuarios del libro han ...