Praise for Sheldon Jacobs"Sheldon Jacobs is a level-headed gentleman who is a cross between Albert Einstein, the Dalai Lama, and Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and who had a solid record editing and publ
Get this handy roadmap to making money in the commodities market. Getting Started in Commodities shows you how to successfully invest in the commodities market in futures, stocks, stock indices, and
Trading Rules that Work introduces you to twenty-eight essential rules that can be shaped to fit any trading approach—whether you're dealing in stocks, commodities, or currencies. Engaging and informa
China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction mark
China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction mark
Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on this intriguing, complex, and frequently misunderstood topic. The book dispels s
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The European Union (EU) has emerged as a key actor in the global investment regime since the 1980s. At the same time, international investment policy and agreements, which govern international investm
Because financing can make or break the deal. Finding great financing is the Holy Grail of real estate. Whether it's your first deal or 50th, it can be the most daunting-but most important-challenge y
Make sure the numbers add up. With real estate investing on the rebound, more and more people are jumping into the market. But often, return on investment hinges less on the physical property and more
The financial markets are a rollercoaster and this book follows the same theme – the seduction of money, our ruinous, heady and high stakes pursuit of it, the incredible fortunes and calamitous losses
Political economy scholarship suggests that private sector investment, and thus economic growth, is more likely to occur when formal institutions allow states to provide investors with credible commitments to protect property rights. This book argues that this maxim does not hold for infrastructure privatization programs. Rather, differences in firm organizational structure better explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments. Domestic investors - or, if contracts are granted subnationally, domestic investors with diverse holdings in their contract jurisdiction - work most effectively in the volatile economic and political environments of the developing world. They are able to negotiate mutually beneficial adaptations to their contracts with host governments because cross-sector diversification provides them with informal contractual supports. The book finds strong empirical support for this argument through an analysis of fourteen water and sanita
This book presents an overview of the theory and applications of statistical portfolio estimation. The approach is necessarily mathematical, as the financial data involved is non-Gaussian and non-stat
"Cathleen and Larry have written this must-read book on hedge funds. They capture the spirit, energy, and knowledge of the best and brightest of the industry."---Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Partner,
With this book, author Melinda Gerber walks you through the twenty-nine steps needed to start a mutual fund and the thirty-six steps needed to start an ETF. She provides costs and detailed explanation
A New York Times bestsellerIn a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world's first wearable computer, beat the casinos o
An engaging guide to understanding derivatives The Bloomberg Visual series covers today's most relevant finance and trading topics in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow style.
While traditional finance focuses on the tools used to optimize return and minimize risk, this book explains how psychology can affect our decisions more than financial theory. Covering the ways inves
