An inside look at modern approaches to modeling equity portfolios Financial Modeling of the Equity Market is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to modeling equity portfolios. The book is intended for a wide range of quantitative analysts, practitioners, and students of finance. Without sacrificing mathematical rigor, it presents arguments in a concise and clear style with a wealth of real-world examples and practical simulations. This book presents all the major approaches to single-period return analysis, including modeling, estimation…

The ability to make money in the world's financial markets depends critically on an individual's ability to make decisions independently of the crowd. To attain such independence, the investor or trader must acquire the capacity to understand the forces at work in logical terms, recognize (and neutralize) any emotional responses to market fluctuations, and design an investment process or trading system that generates objective 'buy' or 'sell' signals. This fifth edition has been completely updated to take the author's latest research into accou…

This monograph develops the franchise value approach to analyzing the prospective cash flows that determine a company's price-to-earnings ratio. The franchise factor model retains the simplicity and intuitive appeal of the dividend discount model, but it offers the advantages of flexibility in application and insight into the components of P/E growth.

The best-selling, best known text in Mathematical Economics course, Chiang teaches the basic mathematical methods indispensable for understanding current economic literature. the book's patient explanations are written in an informal, non-intimidating style. To underscore the relevance of mathematics to economics, the author allows the economist's analytical needs to motivate the study of related mathematical techniques; he then illustrates these techniques with appropriate economics models. Graphic illustrations often visually reinforce alg…

Between the 1960s and the 1980s some of the most influential men in the country spent most of the day in the pub and got paid more than the Prime Minister. They were responsible for transforming a lifeless advertising industry into something exciting and extravagant. They came up with the idea of selling lifestyles. They changed what we ate, how we dressed and who we voted for and celebrated with fast cars, private jets and champagne. "Get Smashed" is a story of ambition, obsession and excess and how the ads that began by reflecting British cul…

A comprehensive guide to the burgeoning hedge fund industry Intended as a comprehensive reference for investors and fund and portfolio managers, Handbook of Hedge Funds combines new material with updated information from Francois-Serge L'habitant's two other successful hedge fund books. This book features up-to-date regulatory and historical information, new case studies and trade examples, detailed analyses of investment strategies, discussions of hedge fund indices and databases, and tips on portfolio construction. Francois-Serge L'habita…

Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals is the first book to bring these issues to the forefront. With clarity, concision, and minimal math, Richard Horwitz lays out the key components and the cutting-edge processes in the field of hedge fund risk management today. Against that backdrop he presents a groundbreaking utility destined to set the standard for transparency and risk management within the hedge fund universe.

In this book, the author provides investors with information to rate the hedge funds' risk infrastructures from 1 (worse) to 4 (best). It is an independent tool to assess if hedge funds' managers have been neglecting risk management, due dilligence and maintenance in hedge funds. In addition, the book contains specific information to reach out for best risk management practices.

Full coverage of how hedge funds work, from risks to rewards

Books on complex hedging instruments are often more confusing than the instruments themselves. "Hedging Instruments and Risk Management" brings clarity to the topic, giving money managers the straightforward knowledge they need to employ hedging tools and techniques in four key markets - equity, currency, fixed income, and mortgage. Using real-world data and examples, this high-level book shows practitioners how to develop a common set of mathematical and statistical tools for hedging in various markets and then outlines several hedging strateg…