Contemporary investments

security and portfolio analysis

This text is written in an informal, conversational style with emphases on investing in common stocks and traditional security analysis, applications, historical context, qualitative factors, and relevance to the individual investor. There is extensive use of real companies and investment situations using the likes of ...

La creación de valor para el accionista

Los accionistas conforman el grupo de mayor importancia estratégica en una empresa. Por este motivo, numerosas firmas establecen como objetivo financiero la maximización del valor de la empresa en mercado para los accionistas, de forma que se constituya en objetivo director de la toma de ...

Financial institutions, investment and management

A general introduction to the three primary aspects of Finance and examination of how they interrelate. The book discusses financial institutions and their roles in helping to allocate savings in the economy, along with a description and analysis of securities issued and traded in money ...

Internet valuation

The 1990s saw a rapid rise in the proportion of market value represented by internet companies. At the peak of the market, the value of US internet stocks alone exceeded $2 trillion, making these stocks nearly as valuable as the entire UK market. However, since ...

La buena reputación

claves del valor intangible de las empresas

Ésta es la primera obra escrita en español sobre la reputación corporativa y está pensada como una auténtica guía de la gestión profesional de la reputación empresarial, con un gran rigor conceptual y operacional, que la convierte en un manual de consulta permanente. En ella ...

Mastering risk modelling

a practical guide to modelling uncertainty with Excel

Mastering Risk Modelling provides useful tips and methods for developing simple Excel applications. In particular, it discusses model design and how to layer complexity on to basic models. The result is a series of templates and building blocks for the reader to use. Risk is ...

Corporate valuation

an easy guide to measuring value

If organisations are to achieve the ultimate corporate goal of maximising shareholder value, then understanding valuation is vitally important. Yet the majority of managers have ignored the area of corporate valuation for a long time, despite the fact that a firm's value is the ...

Understanding market,credit,and operational risk

the value at risk approach

A step-by-step, real world guide to the use of Value at Risk (VaR) models, this text applies the VaR approach to the measurement of market risk, credit risk and operational risk. The book describes and critiques proprietary models, illustrating them with practical examples drawn from ...

Valoración

medición y gestión del valor

Esta edición, largo tiempo esperada, refleja las condiciones del entorno empresarial en la volátil economía global y proporcionar cauces de gran eficacia para que los directivos de todos los niveles sean capaces de crear valor para sus respectivas empresas. Además de todos los estudios del ...

Venture capital contracting and the valuation of high technology firms

This collection of state-of-the- art essays explores the important role of venture capital finance used to invest mainly in small and medium size firms with good growth rospects. It shows that important features of contract and rganizational law have substantially contributed to the competitiveness of ...

Asset princing theory and tests

For this two-volumen collection the editor has selected some of the most influential articles wich have been published on the topic of asset pricig since the 1970

Financial forecasting

These volumes invstigate varius aspects of financial forecasting incluiding the forecasting of earnings, bakruptcy, stock prices, interest rates, exchange rates and risk.

Venture capital

The editors are well placed, given their on substantial work on the subject, to produce an authoritative collection of articles on venture capital. They have assembled all of the influential articles on venture capital in an accessible and well structured set of three volumes. Quite ...

Question of value

master the latest developments in value-based management, investment and regulation

There has been considerable growth in and maturing of ideas surrounding shareholder value, value-based management and financial reporting. Here, in a single source, experts from a variety of professional backgrounds come together to provide a set of practices for valuation and corporate analysis. Questions of ...

Theory of financial risk and derivative pricing

from statistical physics to risk management

Risk control and derivative pricing have become of major concern to financial institutions. The need for adequate statistical tools to measure and anticipate the amplitude of the potential moves of financial markets is clearly expressed, in particular for derivative markets. Classical theories, however, are based ...

Financial fineprint

uncovering a company´s true value

To make money in today#s tough market, investors have to make deliberate, well-researched choices. To do this requires not only having the right information, but also knowing how to decode it. With their obscuring tactics, companies won#t help you any. So be advised ...

Investment mathematics

Investment Mathematics is divided into three parts. Part I looks at the fundamental analysis of investments from a mathematical viewpoint, relying heavily on compound interest techniques which are developed in the first chapter. The material is presented in such a way that those without formal ...

Financial engineering principles

a unified theory for financial product analysis and valuation

This book provides a sophisticated understanding of finance, using commonsense explanations that do not depend on obscure jargon or advanced-level mathematics

Financial market complexity

This book takes a fresh look at understanding how financial markets behave. Using recent ideas from the highly-topical science of complexity and complex systems, the book provides the basis for a unified theoretical description of how today's markets really work. Since financial markets are ...

Intangibles

medición, gestión e información

Entre los implacables mercados de capitales y la inexorable competencia global, los activos intangibles se una empresa (capacidad de innovación, propiedad intelectual, recursos humanos, capital organizativo, etc.) se han convertido en las claves de la supervivencia y el crecimiento. Dado que cada día es más ...