Market-valuation methods in life and pension insurance

In classical life insurance mathematics the obligations of the insurance company towards the policy holders were calculated on artificial conservative assumptions on mortality and interest rates. However, this approach is being superseded by developments in international accounting and solvency standards coupled with other advances enabling ...

Banking and capital markets

"Banking and Capital Markets" is a practical guide to a field that has seen a rapid rate of change in recent years. The text is divided into three parts: Part I provides a clear and accessible explanation of the fundamentals behind drafting loan facility documentation ...

Plight of the fortune tellers

why we need to manage financial risk differntly

Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading - and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo ...

Jesse Livermore

rey de la especulación

A pesar de que murió hace más de cuarenta años, Jesse Livermore sigue siendo considerado uno de los especuladores del mercado más respetado, pintoresco y extravagante de todos los tiempos. Conocido por apodos como Niño de las Apuestas, Gran Oso, y Rey del Algodón, Livermore ...

All about stocks

the easy way to get started

How to buy, what to hold, and when to sell - this is the guide to getting started in stocks and managing your portfolio! Want to become a more accomplished investor? "All About Stocks" is packed with the practical, hands-on guidance you need to choose your ...

Stocks for the long run

the definitive guide to financial market returns and long-term investment strategies

This guide was selected by "BusinessWeek" in 2006 as a "must read" for investors. The blockbuster guide to high-return, low-risk stocks is now updated to cover global stocks and ETFs. One of the seminal investing books of the modern era, "Stocks for the Long Run ...

El arte de reflexionar sobre el dinero

conversaciones en un café

Último libro de Kostolany , en él hace balance de su larga y exitosa vida bursátil. Cuenta al lector los secretos y trucos fundamentales de los especuladores y nombra los factores que influyen en los acontecimientos bursátiles. Al mismo tiempo nos ofrece una vista de los ...

Enseñanzas de Kostolany

seminario bursátil

En este libro están los secretos de la bolsa, cómo piensan y sienten los bolsistas. Muestra el comportamiento de los mercados de manera entretenida y apasionante. André Kostolany nos introduce en su universo con una visión sencilla, profunda, sincera y cargada de anécdotas. Enseñanzas de ...

Curso de bolsa y mercados financieros

Primera parte: La función económica de la Bolsa. Segunda parte: Organización y estructura de las Bolsas. Tercera parte: Criterios de análisis del Mercado de Valores. Cuarta parte: Otros mercados e instituciones en España (MOFEX). Anexo: índice sistemático de la normativa del mercado de valores.

When Washington shut down Wall Street

the great financial crisis of 1914 and the origins of america's monetary

"When Washington Shut Down Wall Street" unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a ...

La batalla por el alma del capitalismo

En este libro Bogle denuncia los estragos que "el capitalismo de los gestores" ha ocasionado en el ahorro popular, estructura esencial de los mercados de valores. Bogle hace un análisis positivo y normativo, como corresponde a un hombre de pensamiento y acción, de los fallos ...

Rocking Wall Street

four powerful strategies that will shake up the way you invest, build your wealth, and give you your life back

This book provides four critical investing principles to beat the Wall Street "casino" at its own game and help you become successful in every phase of life. Celebrated money manager and songwriter Gary Marks has made a fortune knowing when to follow the rules for ...

The four pillars of investing

lessons for building a winning Portafolio

Here is the sound, sensible advice from a hero to frustrated investors everywhere. William Bernstein's "The Four Pillars of Investing" gives investors the tools they need to construct top-returning portfolios - without the help of a financial adviser. In a relaxed, nonthreatening style, Dr. Bernstein ...

Opportunity investing

how to profit when stocks advance, stocks decline, inflation runs rampant, prices fall, oil prices hit the roof..., and every time in between

""Opportunity Investing" has something for everyone. From stock market risk management to mutual fund selection to income investing strategies, Appel has compiled in one volume a simple array of tools to navigate virtually any investing climate." - Bob Kargenian, CMT, President/Principal, TABR Capital Management. "This ...

Crash proof

how to profit from the coming economic collapse

The praise for "Crash Proof" includes: "The dot com implosion proves that we all need Peter Schiff s vision of investing. His view is so global and so unique in its approach, and at a time when we all should be looking to crash proof ...

The New NASDAQ marketplace

The Nasdaq Stock Market has been reengineered in recent years from a competitive dealer market to a modern hybrid. The broader Nasdaq marketplace, including ECNs and ATSs, has also experienced substantial growth and development. This conference brought together leading buy- side and sell-side participants and ...

The black swan

the impact of the highly improbable

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google ...

El inversor inteligente

Considerado el más importante consejero en inversión del siglo XX, Benjamin Graham enseñó e inspiró a financieros de todo el mundo. Presentó su filosofía, basada en el concepto de invertir en valor, en El inversor inteligente, un libro que se convirtió en la biblia de ...

My life as a quant

reflections on physics and finance

Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In "My Life as a Quant", he traces his transformation from an ambitious young scientist to managing director ...

Capital ideas envolving

An industry legend addresses the development of modern investment theory. Written by today's foremost financial historian, Peter Bernstein, "Capital Ideas Evolving" recounts the fascinating process by which financial theory has migrated from the ivory towers of academia to the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street ...