Posted: February 29th, 2008, 5:05pm CET
Bill Meridian's Planetary Stock Trading
行星周期与股票投资
# Author:Bill Meridian
# Format:PDF 9.3MB
# Page Count: 381 pages
# Publisher: Cycles Research; (December 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0964603004
# ISBN-13: 978-0964603004
If you're serious about making money with the stock market, useastrology. It gives you a profit-making edge when you blend it withtechnical analysis and fundamental analysis. And if you're serious about using astrology in the stock market, don't waste any time-- get a copy of Bill Meridian's Planetary Stock Trading immediately!
This is a wonderful reference book that deserves a prominent place on every astro-trader's desk. You'll find hundreds and hundreds of horoscopes for NYSE stocks, NASDAQ stocks, foreign stocks, mutual funds and more. The planetary positions in the horoscopes are all cross-indexed so you can spot sensitive points quickly to speed up your astrological stock picking.
Posted: February 29th, 2008, 4:46am CET
Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance
企业投融资安全分析
# Author:Aswath Damodaran
# Format:PDF 16.8MB
# Page Count: 464 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 31, 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471304654
# ISBN-13: 978-0471304654
Pick the right model for the right moment every time. Whatever your investment philosophy and goals, you’ve probably had trouble at one time or another in measuring the value of a particular asset. Maybe you’ve been wary of the effectiveness of all the valuation models out there and relied on the "guesstimate" approach or simply picked the wrong model for the asset under consideration. Whatever past problems you may have encountered, Damodaran on Valuation will not only convince you of the vitality of the many valuation models available to you, it will help ensure that you develop the acumen needed to select the right model for any valuation scenario. Written by a gifted teacher and respected valuation authority, Damodaran on Valuation offers an overview of the three basic valuation approaches—discounted cash flow, relative, and contingent claim valuation—and the models within these classes. Using plenty of real-world case studies, it explains the purpose of each model, its pros and cons, the steps involved in applying it, and the types of firms to which it is most suited. Soon, you’ll have a solid, practical grasp of tools designed to help you estimate the cost of equity, estimate growth rates, value equity, measure free cash flows to equity, value firms, estimate the value of assets via pricing of comparable assets, and measure the value of assets with option-like characteristics. No model is foolproof. And every valuation is vulnerable to changes in the environment, the economy, and the asset itself. But with Damodaran on Valuation at your side, you can be certain that you’ll have every weapon at your disposal in the battle to accurately determine the value of an asset and to make the right financial decisions under pressure.
Posted: February 28th, 2008, 5:01pm CET
Sams Teach Yourself e-Banking Today
Sams教你网上银行
# Author:Brian Nixon, Mary Dixon
# Format:PDF 3.3MB
# Page Count: 256 pages
# Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (March 10, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672318822
# ISBN-13: 978-0672318825
Sams Teach Yourself e-Banking Today is a comprehensive tutorial of this emerging online trend. Learn the practices of online banking, how to compare services and fees, and how to determine which online bank is right for you. The book explains the security risks of online banking in clear, friendly terms. Take control of your money by employing the information available on the Internet. The book also shows you how to link popular software packages like Quicken and MS Money to your online bank.
Posted: February 27th, 2008, 1:34pm CET
Microeconomics: Public and Private Choice
微观经济学:私人与公共选择
# Author: James D. Gwartney
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 528 pages
# Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 11 edition (March 22, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0324320361
# ISBN-13: 978-0324320367
Authors James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Russell S. Sobel, and David Macpherson believe that a course on principles of economics should focus on the power and relevance of the economic way of thinking. It is this belief and corresponding writing approach that has made MICROECONOMICS: PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CHOICE one of South-Western's most solid and enduring texts. Throughout this text, the authors integrate applications and real-world data in an effort to make the basic concepts of economics come alive for the reader. South-Western is a part of Cengage Learning.
Posted: February 26th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
106 Mortgage Secrets All Borrowers Must Learn - But Lenders Don't Tell
# Author: Gary W. Eldred
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (October 26, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470152869
# ISBN-13: 978-0470152867
The only guidebook that shows you how to finance any property—with or without bank approval
Would you like to discover all of the many ways that you can finance real estate? Want to learn how to cut your financing costs, avoid pitfalls, and negotiate the best terms? Then let Gary Eldred's 106 Mortgage Secrets All Borrowers Must Learn—But Lenders Don't Tell, Second Edition guide you. Fully updated, this practical guide explains how today's changing mortgage market really works. Unlike other mortgage guides, this book goes beyond traditional bank-originated loans and shows you how to benefit with seller financing, assumables, subject-to, wraparounds, lease options, foreclosures, and other money-saving possibilities.
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 5:06pm CET
The Price is Wrong: Understanding What Makes a Price Seem Fair and the True Cost of Unfair Pricing
# Author:Sarah Maxwell
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 240 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (January 2, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470139099
# ISBN-13: 978-0470139097
An in-depth look at fair pricing practices and their affect on our everyday lives
Certainly consumers today are concerned about the unfairness of gasoline prices. And even if these concerns subside, the focus on fair pricing will shift to other areas such as the unfair costs of health care, mobile phones, prescription drugs, a college education, real estate, or hotel rooms. In The Price Is Wrong, pricing expert Sarah Maxwell explains the psychological and sociological basis of fair pricing and reveals how this issue affects our everyday lives. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this book shows readers how unfair pricing causes an extreme emotional response. Throughout the book, Maxwell skillfully explains what makes a price seem wrong, the social norms of fair pricing, and the true cost of unfair pricing.
Posted: February 21st, 2008, 4:41am CET
Global Governance of Financial Systems: The International Regulation of Systemic Risk
规避系统性风险的国际规则
# Author:Kern Alexander, Rahul Dhumale , John Eatwell
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 328 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 12, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0195166981
# ISBN-13: 978-0195166989
The book sets forth the economic rationale for international financial regulation and what role, if any, international regulation can play in effectively managing systemic risk while providing accountability to all affected nations. The book suggests that a particular type of global governance structure is necessary to have more efficient regulation of the international financial system.
This book finds serious deficiencies with the by now extensive system of committees, organizations, rules, and guidelines that have emerged to govern and manage the international financial system. Concretely, it suggests that the existing framework, based on the supervision of individual financial institutions (especially banks), fails to take adequate account of the negative macroeconomic consequences that may flow from the financial failures of particular institutions... In making its central argument, the book offers informative coverage of the International Monetary Fund, the Basel committees on banking, the Asian financial crises, bankruptcy, the legal aspects of the system for settlement of payments, and many other relevant topics.
Posted: February 20th, 2008, 9:36pm CET
Defensive Real Estate Investing: 10 Principles for Succeeding Whether Your Market is Up or Down
防御性房地产投资
# Author:William Bronchick , Gary Licata
# Format:PDF 7.2MB
# Page Count: 272 pages
# Publisher: Kaplan Publishing (May 15, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1427754632
# ISBN-13: 978-1427754639
As the real estate market changes after years of aggressive growth, investors everywhere are faced with uncertainty, wanting to know how to prepare for a potential real estate bust and make sure they don’t lose money.
In his authoritative new work, Defensive Real Estate Investing, bestselling author and real estate expert William Bronchick provides guiding principles to safe investments for beginning to intermediate real estate investors. This book, based on Bronchick’s successful lectures and articles, gives practical, sensible tips for anyone looking to limit risk and make sound investment choices, no matter what their local market conditions. This easy-to-follow, indispensable guide provides reassurance to investors that they can still make safe choices and achieve maximum, long-term wealth in real estate.
Posted: February 19th, 2008, 8:42pm CET
Getting Started in A Financially Secure Retirement
开始负于的退休生活
# Author:Henry K. Hebeler
# Format:PDF 3.6MB
# Page Count: 267 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 27, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470117788
# ISBN-13: 978-0470117781
GETTING STARTED IN A FINANCIALLY SECURE RETIREMENT
If you want to make the most of your retirement years, you have to seriously think about the retirement lifestyle you want and the path that will get you there. In order to do this, you need reliable retirement information that will allow you to properly chart your course. Nobody knows this better than author Henry Hebeler, who retired from the corporate world more than fifteen years ago—and quickly discovered that much of the retirement planning advice available wasn't helping people accomplish their goals.
Now, with Getting Started in a Financially Secure Retirement, Hebeler shares his experience in this field with you and reveals what it really takes to achieve the retirement you want. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in a Financially Secure Retirement dismisses the assumptions that many popular retirement planning methods make and addresses some of today's most important retirement issues, including everything from planning with realistic economic inputs to neglected subjects such as replacement budgeting, reverse dollar cost averaging, and the need for resiliency when encountering surprise events.
Posted: February 19th, 2008, 5:18am CET
Nation, State, and the Economy in History
# Author:Alice Teichova , Herbert Matis
# Format:PDF 4.3MB
# Page Count: 466 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 9, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521792789
# ISBN-13: 978-0521792783
At a time of persistent national strife on a world-wide scale, this book addresses the rarely-explored subject of the reciprocal relationships between nationalism, nation and state-building, and economic change. Analysis of the economic element in the building of nations and states cannot be confined to Europe, and therefore these diverse yet interlinked case-studies cover all continents. Authors come to contrasting conclusions, some regarding the economic factor as central, while others show that nation-states came into being before the constitution of a national market. The essays leave no doubt that the nation-state is an historical phenonemon and as such is liable to 'expiry' both through the process of globalisation and through the development of a 'cyber-society' which evades state control. By contrast, recent developments in southeastern Europe, the former USSR, and parts of Africa and the Far East show that building the nation-state has not run its course.
Posted: February 18th, 2008, 5:04pm CET
The UK Trader's Bible
# Author:Dominic Connolly
# Format:PDF 3.7MB
# Page Count: 330 pages
# Publisher: Harriman House (June 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1897597398
# ISBN-13: 978-1897597392
Key points - The only comprehensive UK-published guide to short-term trading
- Combines detailed reference information with the author's advice on strategy and tactics
- Every serious trader in the UK needs this book - not a nice-to-have, but a must-have The book in the author's words: "There has been a quiet revolution in the financial markets in the UK over the last few years, driven by the introduction of electronic trading and the proliferation of the internet both as a means of trading and as a resource. Despite this transformation making the stock market more accessible to a much wider audience, it became clear to me during my time as Chief Strategist at GNI that no clear reference work existed on the modern stock market. There was a great deal of information out there but it didn't seem available in one place. When I left GNI in late summer 2003 I had a unique opportunity to pull that information together in a single volume, based on my experience working for a major UK market maker, a US bank and my involvement at the forefront of contracts for difference trading in the UK. This book aims to fill that gap and to reveal the detailed workings of the UK stock market and related derivatives market. The book also goes beyond that and gives a unique insight to the modern markets and some of the secret opportunities that they present. The book will be of interest not only to those who wish to trade the market full time but also anyone with a desire to interpret the nuances of the modern market and achieve a deeper understanding; essential in getting more from the financial markets." Dominic Connolly
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 5:00pm CET
The Sleuth Investor
# Author:Avner Mandelman
# Format:PDF 2.6MB
# Page Count: 224 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 8, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071481850
# ISBN-13: 978-0071481854
It's not enough to rely on SEC files, annual reports, and press releases. To uncover the most lucrative investments, you must dig beneath the printed surface of public information and sleuth for physical evidence. This is the only way to reveal the actual truth about a company's real value-and its future.
Investing expert Avner Mandelman honed this highly effective, money-sleuthing approach at his investment firm, Giraffe Capital Corporation. Now, in The Sleuth Investor, he shares his proven intelligence-gathering methods for obtaining exclusive information even before industry insiders do-and using it to gain a decisive edge in buying and selling stock.
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 4:40am CET
China's Management of Enterprise Assets: The State As Shareholder (World Bank Country Study)
中国国有企业资产管理(世界银行国家研究系列)
# Author: World Bank
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count:89 pages
# Publisher: World Bank Publications (August 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0821340115
# ISBN-13: 978-0821340110
China has not yet separated government from state−owned enterprises (SOEs); and SOE reforms to date have produced new problems that threaten their objectives. An emerging corporate governance vacuum, tax evasion, decapitalization through wage increases, and the private taking of assets and socialization of liabilities impair performance and threaten the validity of the system. More than marginal adjustments to current policies are necessary. This report argues to extensively diversify ownership, allowing for passive state minority shares; simplify organizational structures and integrate cross−regional and cross−sectoral shareholding; further develop property right/asset exchanges; eliminate policy−induced barriers to entry and exit in inherently competitive sectors; intensify incentives to meet debt−service obligations; create a market for managerial talent; and require independent audits of financial accounts and make them publicly available.
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 4:29am CET
Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run 960-2030 AD
中国的长远经济表现:960-2030
# Author:Angus Maddison
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 196 pages
# Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel; 2 Rev Upd edition (October 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 9264037624
# ISBN-13: 978-9264037625
It is news to no-one that China’s influence in the world economy and in international affairs has been growing very rapidly over the past few decades. To some this is a threat, to others a promise, but for most, it is a mystery.
In this new edition of an already remarkable book published by the Development Centre in 1998,Angus Maddison provides a detailed analysis of the development of the Chinese economy over the past millennium and the prospects for the next quarter century. He demonstrates that Chinese per capita income was higher than that of Europe from the tenth to the early fifteenth century and it was the world’s biggest economy for several centuries thereafter, before falling into decline. Its extraordinary progress in the reform period since 1978 has been a resurrection, not a miracle and it is likely to resume its normal position as the world’s number one economy by 2015. He applies standard OECD measurement techniques to estimate the pace of Chinese progress and finds somewhat slower growth,nearly 8 per cent a year rather than the 9.6 per cent of Chinese Bureau of Statistics. Instead of using the exchange rate to measure the level of Chinese performance, which greatly understates China’s role in the world economy, Maddison uses purchasing power parity to convert yuan into US dollars and finds that China accounted for 5 per cent of world GDP in 1978, 15 per cent in 2003 and that this is likely to rise to 23 per cent in 2030.
Posted: February 15th, 2008, 5:13pm CET
Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
乌龟交易法则
# Author:Curtis Faith
# Format:PDF 3.3MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 9, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 007148664X
# ISBN-13: 978-0071486644
“We're going to raise traders just like they raise turtles in Singapore.”
So trading guru Richard Dennis reportedly said to his long-time friend William Eckhardt nearly 25 years ago. What started as a bet about whether great traders were born or made became a legendary trading experiment that, until now, has never been told in its entirety.
Way of the Turtle reveals, for the first time, the reasons for the success of the secretive trading system used by the group known as the “Turtles.” Top-earning Turtle Curtis Faith lays bare the entire experiment, explaining how it was possible for Dennis and Eckhardt to recruit 23 ordinary people from all walks of life and train them to be extraordinary traders in just two weeks.
Posted: February 13th, 2008, 4:39am CET
Encyclopedia of Finance
金融百科全书
# Author:Cheng-Few Lee, Alice C. Lee
# Format:PDF 3.7MB
# Page Count:855 pages
# Publisher: Springer,May 2007
# Language : English
# ISBN-10: 0387263365
# ISBN-13: 978-0387263366
The Encyclopedia of Finance is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial managment, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It will also have international approach to ensure its maximum appeal.
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 4:52am CET
Commodities for Every Portfolio: How You Can Profit from the LongTerm Commodity Boom
# Author:Emanuel Balarie
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 240 pages
# Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (5 Oct 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0470112506
# ISBN-13: 978-0470112502
Step-by-step guidelines for making commodities a valuable component in any portfolio
As stock market investing becomes increasingly hard to squeeze profits from, savvy investors are finding commodities to be the perfect vehicle for maintaining portfolio performance. Commodities for Every Portfolio shows commodities newcomers how to ease into this straightforward market, which strategies are best (and which to steer clear of!) and much, much more. Investors and traders get easy-to-follow techniques, strategies, and methods, with individual chapters showing how to invest in commodities through stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, and futures. High-performing companies and index-based funds are listed by name, with specific information on how and why they succeed; hard-to-find informational resources are also provided.
Posted: February 11th, 2008, 5:24pm CET
From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How to Invest in China
从华尔街到长城:如何在中国投资
# Author:Jonathan Worrall, Peter O'Shea , Ivan Chung
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 224 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (December 5, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470109114
# ISBN-13: 978-0470109113
China is positioned to rule the economic world in the coming decades. Western producers find it impossible to compete with China's 60-cents-per-hour average labor costs, and its manufacturing sectors continue to grow exponentially. Export markets are flooded with high-quality, brand-name consumer goods produced in China. In addition to fueling China's dynamic growth curve, this exploding industrial sector has created a new class of worker with unprecedented disposable income and the desire to spend it on, of course, Chinese-produced goods.
It's an investment opportunity that, on this immense scale, you most likely won't see again in your lifetime. But how can you cut across cultural, language, and geographical barriers to put your investment dollars to work in China, today? From Wall Street to the Great Wall shows you how to identify opportunities and invest safely and profitably in the expanding Chinese economy. Researched and written by executives with Mergent, Inc.—the most authoritative global resource for Chinese business reports, information, and data—this valuable guide features:
Posted: February 10th, 2008, 5:04pm CET
Foundations of Economic Value Added, 2nd Edition
经济增加值原理 第二版
# Author:James L. Grant
# Format:PDF 1.9MB
# Page Count: 324 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (September 10, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471234834
# ISBN-13: 978-0471234838
n the completely updated second edition of Foundations of Economic Value Added, James L. Grant provides a fresh look at the role of economic profit in the process of wealth creation. Whether you’re a manager seeking to create substantial shareholder value, or an investor looking for attractive stock selection opportunities, this comprehensive guide will help you better understand and implement one of the most useful financial tools currently available.
Posted: February 9th, 2008, 5:04pm CET
Fixed-Income Securities: Valuation, Risk Management and Portfolio Strategies
固定收入证券:估值,风险管理及投资组合策略
# Author:Lionel Martellini , Philippe Priaulet , Stéphane Priaulet
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 662 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (July 21, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470852771
# ISBN-13: 978-0470852774
This textbook will be designed for fixed-income securities courses taught on MSc Finance and MBA courses. There is currently no suitable text that offers a 'Hull-type' book for the fixed income student market. This book aims to fill this need. The book will contain numerous worked examples, excel spreadsheets, with a building block approach throughout. A key feature of the book will be coverage of both traditional and alternative investment strategies in the fixed-income market, for example, the book will cover the modern strategies used by fixed-income hedge funds.
Posted: February 9th, 2008, 9:28am CET
Business Finance for Managers: An Essential Guide to Planning, Control and Decision Making
管理者的财经-计划,控制和决策指南
# Author:Ray Fitzgerald
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count:448 pages
# Publisher: Kogan Page; 3rd edition (January 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0749438509
# ISBN-13: 978-0749438500
Have you ever wondered what is the most inappropriate job title used in business? In the era when shareholder value has belatedly been recognized as the key financial objective of business, I think it is ‘financial controller’.Everybody who has the authority to spend money on behalf of his or her business is a real financial controller. This does not mean that to be an effective manager you need an accounting qualification. It does mean that you need to be tuned in to the financial consequences of the decisions you make. The big decisions are made by the board or by the management committee. These decisions often have a major effect on future profitability and financial stability. Are you properly equipped to participate in the vote on major actions that will impact on shareholder value? If not, then I believe this book is ideal for you. It will help you to understand financial statements and analyses. It will allow you to be comfortable with financial jargon and performance measurement.
Posted: February 9th, 2008, 4:55am CET
Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge)
掌握交易
# Author:John F. Carter
# Format:PDF 6.3MB
# Page Count: 388 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 7, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071459588
# ISBN-13: 978-0071459587
Turn your fascination with trading into a lucrative, full-time career
Mastering the Trade presents you with a step-by-step, innovative approach for becoming a successful professional trader. Full-time trader and fund manager John F. Carter combines an insightful market overview with specific trading strategies and concepts, providing you with chart setups, trading methodologies, vital money management principles, essential psychological guidelines, advice on powerful hardware and software, and more.
This results-driven book sets aside timeworn basics and rehashed ideas to present and examine in detail the underlying reasons that cause prices to move. Its proven program can be used to consistently get in early on market moves, either jumping right back out when you realize you've made a mistake or hanging on for a long and profitable ride.
Posted: February 8th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition
财务报表分析
# Author:Martin Fridson , Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count:# 396 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (March 15, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471409154
# ISBN-13: 978-0471409151
In Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner?s Guide, Third Edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002), Martin Fridson and Fernando Alvarez detail a number of gimmicks that companies have employed, including:
* Booking deliveries of computer software to resellers as sales, despite undisclosed agreements permitting the return of unsold merchandise for refunds.
* Helping managers to achieve their annual sales targets by announcing a price increase, effective January 2, to induce customers to order before year-end, even though the hike puts the company out of line with the competition.
* Taking credit for volume-based rebates from suppliers before purchases of merchandise reach the level needed to qualify for the rebates.
Posted: February 7th, 2008, 5:01pm CET
Offshore Finance
离岸金融
# Author:Hilton McCann
# Format:PDF 1.8MB
# Page Count: 562 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 11, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521862337
# ISBN-13: 978-0521862332
It is estimated that up to sixty percent of the world's money may be located offshore, where half of all financial transactions are said to take place; however, there is a perception that secrecy about offshore is encouraged to obfuscate tax evasion and money laundering. McCann provides a detailed analysis of the global offshore environment, outlining the extent of the information available and how that information might be used in assessing the quality of individual jurisdictions, as well as examining whether some of the perceptions about 'offshore' are valid. He analyses the ongoing work of the Financial Stability Forum, the Financial Action Task Force, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The book also offers some suggestions as to what the future might hold for offshore finance.
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 5:09pm CET
International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990: Recent Research and Quantitative Analysis (Quantitative Finance)
自1990以来的国际兼并和收购活动
# Author:Greg N. Gregoriou , Luc Renneboog
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Page Count: 320 pages
# Publisher: Academic Press (May 10, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750682892
# ISBN-13: 978-0750682893
It is now a well-know fact that mergers and acquisitions activity comes in waves. The most recent wave, the 5th takeover wave of the 1990s, was characterized by an unprecedented number of corporate restructurings in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&As), public-to-private transactions, spin-offs and divestitures, and leveraged recapitalizations. Following the collapse of the stock market in March 2000, M&A activity slumped dramatically, but this pause ended in the second half of 2004 when takeover deals occurred again quite frequently. Indeed, some observers wonder whether the 6th takeover wave has started. The takeover wave in the 1990s was particularly remarkable in terms of size and geographical dispersion. For the first time, Continental European firms were as eager to participate as their US and UK counterparts, and M&A activity in Europe hit levels similar to those experienced in the US. Due to its financial impact and the unprecedented activity in Continental Europe, the 5th takeover wave of the 1990s and recent takeover activity (in biotech, utilities, pharmaceuticals) have triggered a great deal of interesting academic research. This volume brings together a selection of insightful papers. An impressive group of international authors address the following themes: takeover regulation; the cyclical pattern of the M&A markets and probable causes and effects; methods to determine the performance of success of M&A actions; cross border deals; means of payment and its effects; studies of hostile bids; high leverage takeovers and delistings.
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 8:55am CET
Headhunters and How to Use Them: A Guide for Organisations and Individuals (Economist Series)
猎头公司及其使用指南(经济学人系列)
# Author:Nancy Garrison Jenn
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 224 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (May 25, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861977344
# ISBN-13: 978-1861977342
When firms need to fill management positions, when experienced managers want a new challenge, or when MBA graduates are looking for their first senior management role, they often turn to headhunters, or, more formally, executive search consultants. This guide provides a clear overview of the executive search market, with specific guidelines on using headhunters effectively, both for individuals looking for a job and organizations looking to fill a role. Headhunters offers advice on what's important in the selection of an executive search firm and provides invaluable networking tips on getting the best search consultants interested in you as a candidate. With the global job market more uncertain than ever, the need for quality career guidance has grown considerably. This new addition to The Economist series helps fill the void for all of those looking for a new job--or a new employee.
Posted: February 5th, 2008, 5:09pm CET
Getting Started in Currency Trading: Winning in Todays Hottest Marketplace
外汇市场交易入门指南
# Author:Michael Duane Archer, James Lauren Bickford
# Format:PDF 1.5MB
# Page Count: 208 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (May 25, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471713031
# ISBN-13: 978-0471713036
An accessible introduction to the burgeoning foreign exchange trading market
GETTING STARTED IN CURRENCY TRADING
The Foreign Exchange (FOREX) market is the largest financial market in the world, with a volume of over $1.5 trillion a day—more than three times the total amount of the stocks and futures markets combined. Up until 1995, FOREX trading was only available to banks and large multinational corporations, but today, thanks to the proliferation of the computer and a new era of Internet-based communication technologies, this highly profitable market is open to everyone. This huge international market offers unmatched potential for profitable trading in any market condition or any stage of the business cycle. All you need is a computer, a high-speed Internet connection, and the information contained within this book.
Getting Started in Currency Trading is both an introduction and reference guide for beginning and intermediate FOREX traders. This information-packed resource opens with a clear description of the FOREX market and a section of FOREX terms clearly defined with examples. After this brief overview, Getting Started in Currency Trading moves on to discuss:
Posted: February 4th, 2008, 5:07pm CET
The Sociology of Financial Markets
金融市场社会学
# Author:Karin Knorr Cetina , Alex Preda
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 336 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition (June 7, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199296928
# ISBN-13: 978-0199296927
Financial markets have often been seen by economists as efficient mechanisms that fulfill vital functions within economies. But do financial markets really operate in such a straightforward manner? The Sociology of Financial Markets approaches financial markets from a sociological perspective. It seeks to provide an adequate sociological coneptualization of financial markets, and examine who the actors within them are, how they operate, within which networks, and how these networks are structured. Patterns of trading, trading room coordination, and global interaction are studied to help us better understand how markets work and the types of reasoning behind these trends. Financial markets also have a structural impact on the governance of social and economic institutions. Until now, sociologists have examined issues of governance mostly with respect to the legal framework of financial transactions. Contributions in this book highlight the ways in which financial markets shape the inner working and structure of corporations and their governance. Finally the book seeks to investigate the symbolic aspects of financial markets. Financial markets affect not only economic and social structures but also societal cultural images and frameworks of meaning. Barbara Czarniawska demonstrates how representations of gender relationships are a case in point. Arguing that financial markets are not simply neutral with respect to questions of gender but enhance certain images and interpretations of men and women. Addressing many important topics from a sociological perspective for the first time, this book will be key reading for academics, researchers, and advanced students of financial markets in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, and Sociology.
Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:45am CET
Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures
# Author:L. Jean Camp
# Format:PDF 1.9MB
# Page Count: 181 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 23, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0387345892
# ISBN-13: 978-0387345895
Today, identity is more than anything, economic. The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill-matched to the economics and uses of identities. Identity theft is the misuse of private authenticating information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. Together, these points illustrate that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft.
The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios.
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 5:01pm CET
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds
ETF基金全书:所有你需要知道的交易所交易基金的一切
# Author:Richard Ferri
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Page Count: 386 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (December 4, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470130636
# ISBN-13: 978-0470130636
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are revolutionizing the investment industry. From their introduction in 1993, ETFs have expanded exponentially over the past fifteen years. By 2008, there will be more than 1,000 ETFs available on U.S. exchanges—with assets totaling well over $1 trillion. That's why you, as an informed investor, need to know what makes ETFs unique, how they work, and which funds may help you achieve your financial goals.
Written by veteran financial professional and experienced author Richard Ferri, The ETF Book gives you a broad and deep understanding of this important investment vehicle and provides you with the tools needed to successfully integrate exchange-traded funds into any portfolio.
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 12:25am CET
Squeezed: America As The Bubble Bursts
挤破美国的泡沫
# Author:Danny Schechter
# Format:PDF 1.7MB
# Page Count:147 pages
# Publisher: ColdType.Net(Canada)
# Language: English
What we're observing, in all its bizarreness, is the ancient paradox of what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. The irresistible force in this case is the U.S. economy... The immovable object is a wall of debt that now can't be paid back." BUSINESS WEEK
Preface By Robert D Manning, author of Credit Card Nation
Over the last decade, U.S. industrial employment has been ravaged by Neoliberal “free trade” policies and corporate outsourcing while workers have struggled to retain the basic vestiges of the American Dream. Sadly, as the post-industrial society has eroded the industrial heartland of middle-class America, the mall has replaced the factory as the engine of the US economy. Indeed, one of the distinguishing features of the “new economy” is that it is more profitable to finance consumption than production. And, as real wages have declined and basic living expenses have soared, American families have become increasingly dependent upon consumer credit and debt to maintain their lifestyle and, too often, simply to survive.
Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 5:01pm CET
Statistics of Financial Markets: An Introduction (Universitext)
金融市场统计学导言
# Author:Jürgen Franke , Wolfgang K. Härdle , Christian M. Hafner
# Format:PDF 10.3MB
# Page Count: 501 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (February 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 3540762698
# ISBN-13: 978-3540762690
Statistics of Financial Markets offers a vivid yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods to evaluate option contracts, to analyse financial time series, to select portfolios and manage risks making realistic assumptions of the market behaviour.
The focus is both on fundamentals of mathematical finance and financial time series analysis and on applications to given problems of financial markets, making the book the ideal basis for lectures, seminars and crash courses on the topic.
For the second edition the book has been updated and extensively revised. Several new aspects have been included, among others a chapter on credit risk management.
Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 8:05am CET
Mutual Funds For Dummies, 5th edition
傻瓜系列之共同基金投资
# Author:Eric Tyson
# Format:PDF 6.8MB
# Page Count: 408 pages
# Publisher: For Dummies; 5 edition (August 27, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470165006
# ISBN-13: 978-0470165003
Expanded coverage of ETFs, fund alternatives, and Internet research
Cash in on the latest wealth-building techniques with America's #1 best-selling mutual fund book
Want to make the most of mutual funds? Personal finance expert Eric Tyson shares his time-tested investing advice, as well as updates to his fund recommendations and revised coverage of tax law changes, in this user-friendly resource. Sample fund portfolios and updated forms show you exactly how to accomplish your financial goals.
