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Start Your Journey to A Work-Optional Life Investing is risky, and successful investors know what it means to take “smart risks.” In SMART RISK, leading wealth catalyst and portfolio manager Maili Wong shares her techniques to help you build an investment strategy and roadmap leading to a work-optional life—having the freedom to live the lifestyle you choose, regardless of market conditions. Smart Risk Investing balances art and science in a financial decision-making process that continuously...

What Are You Waiting For? This book will change the way you think about investing-and the results will prove it! "This is the simple hands-on, how-to and why book many readers have been looking for." -Scott Burns, syndicated columnist Daniel Solin cuts through the financial hype to show you exactly how to invest-with an easy-to-follow four-step plan that lets you create and monitor your investment portfolio in ninety minutes or less...and put your investment earnings in the top 5 perce...

In the 1990s shareholder value was applied to all aspects of corporate strategy and management decisions as a result of intense competition, globalization, advances in technology, deregulation and the financial markets. As we enter the twentyfirst century the business environment is one of increasing creative destruction, where competitive advantage is much harder to sustain. Real Options , a type of advanced financial analysis, applies financial option theory to real assets and offers a strateg...

Ghe complete resource to guide professionals through a full business valuation and to better manage their practice. Now valuation professionals can master every function for every valuation situation. The Financial Valuation Workbook, Second Edition guides readers through a complete business valuation with essential tools for quick reference. Completely revised and updated, this practical guide applies valuation theory to real-world business environments and provides a detailed case study, model...

Conventional wisdom says that Europe’s crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-state crisis. Over decades, government has grown too big for the private sector to pay for; when the recession hit in 2008 most European economies could no longer bear the burden of the welfare state. Raging...

China is currently one of the most important players in the global investment scene. However, with the rapid growth of overseas investment, there is also sharp increase of the investment risks. Their country-risk rating system constructs five indicators, including economic fundamentals, ability to service debt, social flexibility, political risk and the relation with China, to provide warning and reference for Chinese enterprises and sovereign wealth funds. This year’s rating system expands to f...

The book addresses the vital issue of how business leaders can prepare themselves to deal with the impact of unexpected events. It raises key questions for leaders to address if they are to avoid being distracted by crisis and remain in touch with a wider context that is subject to constant uncertainty and change.

The banking industry extensively lobbied against Basel III and governments have been keen to delay its full implementation. Chorafas' latest book takes a well-rounded approach on Basel III's strengths and weaknesses and explains how, without deep restructuring of the global banking industry, (like Basel II) Basel III will fail.

Dieses Buch zeigt zum einen die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen der „Risk Science“ auf und überträgt sie auf Finanzinstitute. Zum anderen wird aus einer pragmatischen Sicht die Auswirkung der aktuellen Digitalisierung auf mögliche Risiken betrachtet, wobei auch die externe Wahrnehmung der Gesellschaft auf Entwicklungen in Banken und speziell zu Themen wie der Anwendung der Künstlichen Intelligenz einbezogen wird. Damit schlägt dieses Buch eine Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft, öffentliche...

Die vorliegende Ausarbeitung zeigt konzeptionelle Grundlagen des Liquiditätsmanagements auf und stellt die Operationalisierung dieser Überlegungen in führenden deutschen Industrie- und Handelsunternehmen dar. Dies wird ergänzt um Beispiele aus der externen Berichterstattung über Liquidität und Liquiditätsrisiken. Außerdem wird ein Überblick über die Berücksichtigung von Liquidität in den Beurteilungen der Analysten und Ratingagenturen sowie über Untersuchungen zur Bewertung von Liquidität an den...

Financial Markets in Practice: From Post-Crisis Intermediation to FinTechs delivers an overview of the development of risk-transformation undertaken by the financial services industry from the perspective of quantitative finance. It provides an instructional and comprehensive explanation of the structure of the financial system as a network of risk suppliers and risk consumers, where different categories of market participants buy, transform, net, and re-sell different kinds of risks. This risk-...

This book is aimed at those who need to learn more about the scope and definitions of business continuity planning. Topics covered include: evaluation criteria for business continuity plans; project initiation and management; risk evaluation and control; impact analysis; developing business continuity strategies; emergency response and operations; design and implementing business continuity plans; awareness and training programmes; public relations and crisis communication; co-ordination with pu...

A Guide to Executive Protection is essential reading for those responsible for staff safety and security. Following the proven steps outlined in this guide can help to ensure that the appropriate measures have been implemented. Topics covered include: security plans; selection and training; organizational issues; vulnerability analysis; surveillance; equipment; conducting inspections; explosive detection; emergency plans; communication; threat assessment.

This book covers in detail the building blocks of Chinese capital markets at the financial instrument level, the analytical pricing term structure of those instruments, the macro and industry economic framework and progress of the liberalization processes at work in the respective markets, the interaction of various participants in the markets, their trading and investment objectives and rationales, some of the most frequently applied trading and investment strategies, and risk management techni...