The best time to plan for trouble—the death of a spouse, the collapse of a business, the loss of your home—is before you’re overwhelmed by it. This is especially important if you have a family or a small business or are beginning to save for your retirement. But what should you do first? In 50 Simple Steps You Can Take to Disaster-Proof Your Finances, money and real estate expert Ilyce Glink walks you step by step through the things you need to do to protect your family and your money so you can survive any crisis. Topics include:* Gettin…

For over three decades, indexing has become increasingly accepted by both institutional and individual investors. Index benchmarks and investment products that track them have been a driving force in the transformation of investment strategy from art to science. Yet investors' understanding of the sophistication of this burgeoning field has lagged the growing use of index products. Active Index Investing is the definitive guide to how indexes are constructed, how index-based portfolios are managed, and how the world's most sophisticated inves…

Written to help the reader evaluate and identify the risks inherent in any commercial lending proposal, this book offers a practical framework for reviewing both internal and external corporate credit risk factors. It covers international accounting standards, advanced ratio and cash flow analysis, corporate valuation, business risk analysis, venture capital, MBOs, MBIs and other important topics.

A market leader, this book has detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management ? as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy allowing readers to gain valuable information on a wide range of topics and apply to situations they may face.

This is a reference title on the ongoing synthesis of traditional techniques and financial risk management. It examines the scope of the asset and liability management function, and looks at new research on a range of topics including data warehousing and credit risk models.

This powerful new book is the first ever examination of how political risk–something faced by every political actor innumerable times per day–is calculated and used in decision making. It opens with an outline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk, a section on the various disciplinary understandings of risk, the risk society concept and how risk has come to be so prominent in the context of environmental disaster and terrorism. The book then defines political risk and looks at its manifestations in the public sector from project…

This fascinating book will inform the reader about China's natural energy and commodities' resources. A review of the supply and demand market demonstrates that China's emerging economy will require more and more resources in the future. The author looks at oil, natural gas, and alternative renewable energies, amongst others. In addition, strategic alternatives to the exponential demand are revealed, such as international partnerships with global corporations, new drilling and exploration projects, alliances with neighbouring partners, and inve…

Covering a broad spectrum of commodities with an emphasis on energy, the reader is provided with valuable insights into the risk management techniques utilised in the energy markets. It serves as a non-technical discussion of all the major differences between financial and commodity risk management, the various trading and risk management strategies, their performance and motivation.

Sadgrove, a management consultant, explains how to identity and control threats to a business, from computer failure to terrorism. He examines key areas including finance, product quality, health and safety, security, and the environment, and offers guidelines on drawing up action plans for risk assessment and management.

The book targets sophisticated audiences. Concepts are well developed, rigorous presented and meticulously referenced. There is some mathematics, but it appears primarily in later chapters. Audiences include managers interested in policy, traders who must understand complex hedging strategies and readers interested in the fall of Metallgesellschaft. For risk managers, both at financial organizations as well as corporations, the entire book is a gem.