Modern investment management

an equilibrium approach

Bob Litterman and the Quantitative Reource Group Goldman Sachs Asset Management This powerful book brilliantly discovers the routes to superior investment results in the roots of economic theory. In the process, it combines elegance of presentation with the highest levels of lucidity. The authors offer ...

Venture capital

a Euro-System approach

Covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the way venture capital really works, the relations between venture capital, corporate banking and stock exchanges, market trends in Europe and the US, legal issues related to the creation of venture capital firms and closed end funds ...

Real estate investment trusts

structure, performance, and investment opportunities

The book provides the investing public, real estates practitioners, regulators, and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information on what modern scholarly research tells us about Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). REITs are credited to allow institutional and individual investors to invest in real ...

Asset management and investor protection

an international analysis

Scandals in financial institutions, weakness in the world economy, and volatility in financial markets bring to the fore issues of regulation and consumer protection. This comparative survey of how investors are currently protected in a range of European countries and the USA is set in ...

Corporate treasury and cash management

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer. The objectives of the book are to describe how corporate treasury departments should establish a framework for the identity, measurement and management of risk ...

Angel investing

matching start-up funds with start-up companies: the guide for entrepeneurs, individual investors and venture capitalists

Angel investing is becoming a popular way for entrepreneurs to bring companies from the "idea stage" to full blown funding of venture capital. This comprehensive guide to angel investing offers insights into the angel investment market, and provides a resource section designed to link investors ...

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 ...