Thursday, February 24, 2005

Financial Management Manual: Book and CD ROM
Author:Christopher Mansell

Today's hard-pressed finance professional will welcome Financial Management Manual. It will be particularly useful to those in small and medium-sized businesses, where company restructuring, a more complex and urgent business environment and greater regulation mean that the finance professional must get involved in the whole range of management tasks – from functional responsibilities such as taxation, insurance and treasury management, to employment and business law.

A reliable and practical information resource, Financial Management Manual is designed to solve your financial and general management problems. Its focus is on good business practice, with a strong emphasis on practical application to the problems of the day, rather than theory.

Subscribe to Financial Management Manual and you will gain detailed guidance on issues that affect your success at work. It brings diverse, wide-ranging, reliable advice into one convenient information source that is regularly updated to ensure that you will always have accurate information at your fingertips.

Financial Management Manual gives you the opportunity to learn quickly from the hard-won experience of senior accountants, consultants and lawyers. It will help you to build confidence in areas as diverse as information technology, strategic planning and pensions, and to cope efficiently with problems outside your recognised training, without the need to call in expensive advisers.

- A subscription includes a two-volume loose-leaf plus two updating supplements, CD-ROM, Online, Business Support Helpline and monthly newsletter, ‘fd‘ newsletter. Subscription renewal includes the subsequent four updating supplements and 12 newsletter issues.

Filled with many practical examples and tried-and-tested checklists, this indispensable, daily reference work will help you to tackle both your immediate and longer-term financial and general management questions.

Hedge Fund Masters
Author:Ari Kiev

The psychological strategies that hedge fund traders use to maximize their success

Ari Kiev interviewed over 80 hedge fund traders, including some of the most successful hedge fund operators in the world, to exemplify and drive home the principles of trading success. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Hedge Fund Masters explores the psychological pressures felt by professional hedge fund traders as they manage enormous sums of their clients' money. Kiev shows traders how to maintain emotional balance, focus on targets and goals, overcome deep-seated psychological obstacles, and trade with consistency and discipline.

Shipping Finance Annual 2005/2006


Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits
Author:Richard Schabacker;

Richard W. Schabacker's great work, Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits, is a worthy addition to any technical analyst's personal library or any market library. His "pioneering research" represents one of the finest works ever produced on technical analysis, and this book remains an example of the highest order of analytical quality and incisive trading wisdom.

Originally devised as a practical course for investors, it is as alive, vital and instructional today as the day it was written. It paved the way for Robert Edwards and John Magee's best-selling Technical Analysis of Stock Trends - a debt which is acknowledged in their foreword: 'Part One is based in large part on the pioneer researches and writings of the late Richard Schabacker.'

Schabacker presents technical analysis as a totally organized subject and comprehensively lays out the various important patterns, formations, trends, support and resistance areas, and associated supporting technical detail. He presents factors that can be confidently relied on, and gives equal attention to the blemishes and weaknesses that can upset the best of analytical forecasts. Factors which investors would do well to absorb and apply when undertaking the fascinating game of price, time and volume analysis.

Stock Cycles
Author:Michael Alexander

Stock Cycles describes secular trends in the stock market. These are lengthy (10-20 year) periods of generally rising prices (secular bull markets) and flat or even falling prices (secular bear markets). Together a pair of these trends constitute one stock cycle. Investors have all been told that on average stocks return about 10%. This is true, the total return over one cycle is about 10%, but most of this return occurs in the bull portion of the cycle. The bull portion typically gives an average 16% return, leaving only a 4% average return for the bear portion of the cycle. Stock Cycles was written in early 2000, and at that time, argued that the secular bull market begun in 1982 would likely end in 2000, after which a secular bear market would begin which would last at least until 2010 and probably much longer.

A novel valuation methodology called P/R is introduced to trace the progress of the cycle, and which is used to make total return projections for five, ten and twenty year periods beginning in 2000. An explanation for the cause of the cycle is advanced that makes use of an underlying economic cycle called the Kondratiev cycle. Evidence for the existence of the Kondratiev cycle is presented which when combined with the separate stock cycle presents a convincing case for the operation of a cyclical economic process that affects stock market returns. This process today has an approximate period of 36 years and appears to be still operative.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Global Investment Return Yearbook 2005


Mastering MATLAB 7
Author:Duane C. Hanselman; Bruce L. Littlefield

This text covers all essential aspects of MATLAB presented within an easy- to-follow "learn while doing" tutorial format.
Features:
- All new features of the latest release of MATLAB are covered - Demonstrates how the new features can be used to increase productivity and do new things.
- Discusses integration of MATLAB with C, FORTRAN, AND Java - Increases MATLAB's power and flexibility in dealing with external algorithms, datasets, and operating system capabilities.
- Thorough coverage of indexing, vectorizing, and linear algebra - Increases students' problem-solving productivity and dramatically increases algorithm speed.
- Abundant examples throughout - Also includes a chapter that specifically covers extensive examples.
- Comprehensive index.

Instructor's Manual for Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts
Author:Robert S. Pindyck



Futures for Small Speculators
Author:Noble DraKoln

Today's most complete guide to futures investing for small investors
This one of a kind book holds the keys to how investors with $15,000 or less, to put at risk, can be satisfied with their futures trading, whether they win or lose.
This book holds the secrets on how to control your trading experience without your ego attempting to second-guess the markets.
In Futures For Small Speculators you can:
- Overcome the trading demons of "Fear" and "Greed"
- Learn the significant differences between speculation and gambling
- Learn what it takes to speculate on a shoestring
- Make money management essential to your Futures trading success
- Develop a personalized Futures Trading Plan just like the winners
- Understand how keeping a Trading Journal can improve your trading
- Use full service brokers to your advantage

Check Your Tax & Money Facts 2005-2006
Author:Graham Kitchen

Even the experts agree that tax is a hugely complex subject - and becoming more so every year. Everyone has the responsibility to complete their self-assessment tax return accurately. And if the experts are confused, it's not surprising that the public is too. Here's the answer. This best-selling title is now in its 38th edition and once again offers the most useful, easy-to-understand information on all aspects of taxation.

It includes all the latest figures, advice and essential information, including a step-by-step guide to filling in the tax return and details of tax credits.

The Inland Revenue say that 7 million people are due a tax refund but don’t know it. Check Your Tax and Money Facts tells you how to claim it and which forms to fill in.

Thursday, February 10, 2005

The Next Step
Author:Kami Naraghi Evans

Through this book, you will learn how to set up a strategy to support your goals and attain success by leveraging her guidance and experiences.
An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management
Author:Don Chance;
New to this third edition:
- Two colour presentation of all figures and tables
- Key formulas are highlighted in colour
- New emphasis on the growing world of derivatives
- Expanded coverage of forward contracts, swaps, and OTC derivatives
- Additional margin boxes in each chapter
- More real world examples: Derivatives in Action
- Figures illustrating the links between puts, calls, stocks, risk-free bonds, futures, options, and Black-Scholes call/put option pricing model
- Early exercise of American calls/puts has been greatly improved
- Hedge problems are in special tables with an analysis of the outcome
- Expanded coverage of foreign currency derivatives

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives
Author:John C. Hull



2005 Global Fund Raising Review
This new 220 page publication from Private Equity Intelligence provides comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the fund raising market in 2005. Who's currently on the road raising a fund? Who's likely to come to market with a follow-on fund during the year? How are LPs interests evolving, and where did funds get their commitments from in 2004? Who are the key LPs that every fund-raiser needs to have on their radar screen?

The Review is your comprehensive guide to the Private Equity Fund Raising Market:

Thursday, February 03, 2005

Statistics of Random Processes II
Author:Robert Liptser;Albert Shiryaev

The subject of these two volumes is non-linear filtering (prediction and smoothing) theory and its application to the problem of optimal estimation, control with incomplete data, information theory, and sequential testing of hypothesis. The book is not only addressed to mathematicians but should also serve the interests of other scientists who apply probabilistic and statistical methods in their work. The theory of martingales presented in the book has an independent interest in connection with problems from financial mathematics.


In the second edition, the authors have made numerous corrections, updating every chapter, adding two new subsections devoted to the Kalman filter under wrong initial conditions, as well as a new chapter devoted to asymptotically optimal filtering under diffusion approximation. Moreover, in each chapter a comment is added about the progress of recent years.

Budgeting Basics and Beyond
Author: Jae K. Shim; Joel G. Siegel

Budgeting Basics and Beyond, 2nd Edition, is a handy desk problem-solver and up-to-date reference tool for today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry. It is packed with case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems. It is a truly valuable resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process effective and hassle-free for all managers who use it. It covers financial planning and modeling, variance analysis, Web-based budgeting, active budgeting illuminating "what-if" analyses throughout, spreadsheet applications, break-even analysis, project analysis, and capital budgeting.

Getting to Yes
Author:Roger Fisher; William Ury; Bruce Patton

The Secret to Successful Negotiation Negotiation is a way of life for the majority of us. Whether we're at work, at home or simply going out, we want to participate in the decisions that affect us. Nowadays, hardly anyone gets through the day without a single negotiation, yet, few of us are armed with the effective, powerful negotiating skills that prevent stubborn haggling and ensure mutual problem-solving.

Fisher and Ury cut through the jargon to present a few easily remembered principles that will guide you to success, no matter what the other side does or whatever dirty tricks they resort to. They include:



Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business
Author:E. James Burton;Steven M. Bragg

Based on the authors' extensive experience as successful business owners, consultants, and teachers, these books guide small business owners, managers, accountants, and consultants through the complex maze of critical business issues. E. James Burton and Steven M. Bragg use numerous real-world examples and detailed, step-by-step guidance to coach readers in proven strategies and techniques for refining key aspects of a new entrepreneurial venture.

In Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business readers learn everything they need to know about tracking cash flows; conducting analyses; analyzing key financial information; determining insurance requirements; compiling tax liabilities; and more.