Every day, the financial markets bravely price trillions of dollars in such risky securities as stocks, bonds, options, futures, and derivatives. The systematic determination of their values--asset pricing--has developed dramatically in the last few years due to advances in financial theory and econometrics. In one of the most highly anticipated books in financial economics, John Cochrane unifies and brings this science up to date for the benefit of advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing of all assets back to a singl…

Invoking the words and spirit of Thomas Paine, investor-turned-historian John Bogle concedes that ideas for revamping the mutual-fund industry are perhaps "not yet sufficiently fashionable to them general favor." But despite likening the "ills and injustices suffered by mutual fund investors" to those "our forebears suffered under English tyranny," Bogle--founder of the Vanguard Group-- makes a strong case for index funds with this exhaustive study of investing.

Emerging Stock Markets: Risk, Return, and Performance is a compendium of historical data currently available about the performance of securities in emerging markets. As a result, it will be an invaluable aid to the investor or investment manager trying to make informed decisions about investing in emerging market assets. The authors provide monthly stock return data for more than two dozen countries in the Emerging Markets Data Base maintained by the International Finance Corporation. Without such data, analysis of this fascinating asset class …

Proven trading strategies for profiting from today's Forex market Forex Conquered gives traders easy-to-learn strategies, which will help them make the best trades possible. In this new book, John Person fully explains successful trading rules and trade management. He offers readers specific information on when to increase lot size, how to manage risk, when to move stops, and how to use automated trading programs. Furthermore, he explains how an individual retail Forex trader can build a "black box" Forex system. Person also includes an innovat…

Securitisation technology has moved from the exotic to the mainstream, and in so doing is revolutionising the global bond markets. Synthetic credit derivatives technology, CDOs, the covered bond market, the mortgage-backed market and M&A financing have all come together to make securitisation the fastest growing, most widely applicable and most flexible area of the global credit markets, which can be used to raise efficient financing, to improve return on capital, to reduce credit exposure, to restructure and manage balance sheets, to diversify…

Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows--very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You'll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for dire…

This book provides expert tactics to become and make the most of every swing trade. In Mastering the Trade, veteran trader and educator John Carter shares his hard-won five-point technique for successful swing trading. In addition, Carter helps you move to the next level of confidence by explaining how markets really work and detailing behind-the-scenes market mechanics.

Many of the techniques that drug traffickers and organized crime figures use to launder money are also employed by terrorist groups - as those involved in investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001 soon discovered. These techniques and their perpetrators have grown in number and sophistication, creating an urgent need for investigators to develop strategies that will help keep them one step ahead of the game. Authoritative and accessible, "Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators, Second Edition" is based on the author's extens…

* Selected 'classic' options papers from the 1960's to the 1990's, each of which as brought a truly innovative approach to the business of financial engineering * A unique compilation of papers brings together writing from Black and Scholes, Samuelson, Hull and White and Margrabe as well as other leading theoreticians * An invaluable reference tool on options pricing and modelling

How do you bring real world scenarios into your course? Or would you like to? Business Snapshots (about 60 in total, found in almost all chapters)—Carefully thought out and integrated into the main material in chapters. Describe real world situations and interesting issues that are highlighted to illustrate points being made throughout the text. Completely revised chapters on credit risk and credit derivatives (Ch 20 and 21)—Reflects market developments. Makes these chapters in this edition more straightforward and easier to teach. Ope…