Finance and financial markets

Finance and Financial Markets is a best selling comprehensive introduction to the financial markets, institutions and instruments that constitute global finance. Its practical approach makes it readily understandable for students on finance and economics courses and those wanting to understand the workings of the modern ...

The masters private equity and venture capital

management lessons from the pioneers of private investing

Ten Leading private investors share their secrets to maximum profitability In The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies. Based on original interviews ...

Corporate financial analysis with Microsoft Excel

Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft(R) Excel(R) combines both spreadsheet skills with management skills to build the reader's proficiency with Excel(R), the most important tool for those in finance and security analysis. The author includes questions designed to challenge readers to think ...

The handbook of risk management

implementing a post-crisis corporate culture

This handbook shows a firm how to repurpose its risk management in order to design and implement a corporate culture which involves all business units and individuals at each level of the hierarchy, how to analyse its risk appetite, translate it into risk policies and ...

Leadership risk

a guide for private equity and strategic investors

This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. It sets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing the risks associated with senior management during the due diligence process of an acquisition. This provides an essential input into the wider due diligence review ...

Real estate modelling and forecasting

As real estate forms a significant part of the asset portfolios of most investors and lenders, it is crucial that analysts and institutions employ sound techniques for modelling and forecasting the performance of real estate assets. Assuming no prior knowledge of econometrics, this book introduces ...

Smart growth

building an enduring business by managing the risks of growth

Common Wall Street wisdom holds that if a business is successful, it grows, but growth can be a bane to business, overextending a company's modest resources and forcing it to compete beyond its means. Few companies achieve continuous, long-term expansion, and the "grow or ...

The future of finance

how private equity

'Dan Schwartz has done a masterful job of synthesizing the thoughts of some of the best minds in the private equity business along with his own to create a superb discussion of the industry, past, present, and most importantly where it is going. This is ...

Predatory trading and crowed exits

new thinking on market volatility

In this book, the author looks at a series of market phenomena that involve security prices moving temporarily away from their 'fair value', creating opportunities for traders to profit (and the risk of losses for the unaware!). The phenomena he examines have only recently begun ...

Venture capital

investment strategies, structures, and policies

Ed. Douglas Cumming. This is an essential guide to venture capital. Studies have shown that venture capital backed entrepreneurial firms are on average significantly more successful than non-venture capital backed entrepreneurial firms in terms of innovativeness, profitability, and share price performance upon going public. Understanding ...

The little book of bulletproof investing

do's and don'ts to protect your financial life

This title offers investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognizable voices in personal finance. It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what ...

Psychology of investing

A supplement for undergraduate and graduate Investments courses. See the decision-making process behind investments. The Psychology of Investing is the first text of its kind to delve into the fascinating subject of how psychology affects investing. Its unique coverage describes how investors actually behave, the ...

The mutual fund industry

competition and investor welfare

Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth over recent decades, are sure to become even more financially critical in the coming decades. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can ...

Restoring confidence in the financial system

see-through leverage: a powerful new tool for revealing and managing risk

"Restoring Confidence" is a ground-breaking book in which a top mathematician, who is also one of the City of London's most experienced traders, and an experienced City banker explore how confidence in the global financial system was destroyed by the current banking crisis. Drawing ...

The known, the unknown, and the unknowable in financial risk management

measurement and theory advancing practice

Eds. Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty, Richard J. Herring. A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today - Value at Risk ...

Risk management in credit portfolios

concentration risk and basel II

Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a regulatory perspective to properly measure and manage these concentrations. In this book, the impact of ...

Private equity as an asset class

Unfairly reviled, and much misunderstood, private equity differs from all other asset classes in various important respects, not least the way in which its fund mechanisms operate, and the way in which its returns are recorded and analysed. Sadly, high level asset allocation decisions are ...

Anticipating risks and organising risk regulation

Ed. Bridget M. Hutter. Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organisations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This book shows how we can organise our social ...

The endowment model of investing

return, risk, and diversification

This title offers a cutting-edge look at the endowment model of investing. Many larger endowments and foundations have adopted a broadly diversified asset allocation strategy with only a small amount of traditional U.S. equities and bonds. This technique, known as the 'endowment model of ...

Cómo entender las finanzas de hoy

bienes inmuebles, acciones, bonos, productos estructurados, private equity, Hedge funds

Los mercados financieros han experimentado una creciente sofisticación en los últimos años. Esto ha permitido ampliar el abanico de oportunidades de inversión más allá de la inversión tradicional en acciones, bonos, vivienda o depósitos a plazo. Las nuevas estrategias de inversión generan grandes oportunidades para ...