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Helping someone plan for retirement is a very personal process. Having retired over 1000 individuals, Sid Miramontes has learned quite a few things along the way. Some situations are similar for each person, but others are totally unique to each individual-the personal, the exceptional, the human side of retirement. Retirement: Your New Beginning provides education on commonly confused retirement concepts, helping simplify the process of retirement with client stories that will help the reader...

The Asian life insurance industry is truly entering an inflection point. Coming off massive growth from the past several years, the industry has suffered greatly, along with the rest of the financial industry, in the 2008 financial crisis. Most life insurers across Asia have lost tremendous value in the wake of the crisis; a few are in significant distress. It is important not to lose sight of the longer-term outlook though: fueled by macroeconomic factors such as the emergence of the middle cla...

Combining comprehensive and up-to-date syllabus coverage with exercises and exam-style questions, this text focuses on protection, savings and investment. Awarded by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the FPC is designed for people involved in the selling of financial products or services. The FPC is the compulsory minimum standard required by the industry's regulatory body - the Personal Investment Authority. The AFPC (advanced) represents the next optional level of qualification. This te...

Property Finance is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field of property finance, linking the practicalities of property and construction with an understanding of core financial structures and concepts. It introduces the key components of real estate investment and development cycles, and explores the interconnected roles of the financial services industry, property companies, joint ventures, banks, and real estate developers. For this edition, a new co-author, Mark Daley, has been bro...

Financial Analyst's Indispensable Pocketguide is the first reference to give the more than 20,000 candidates who take AIMR-administered CFA exams annually--and the 60,000-plus CFAs and finance professionals who currently practice investment management--a single broad-based resource for specific terminology and information. Much more than just a dictionary, this dynamic book explains and expands upon the fundamental concepts that comprise a financial analyst's lexicon.Within each section, Ramesh...

'If you're a progressive, in Britain or elsewhere, and if you think the movement needs fresh ideas, read this book, it's full of them. Then get to work' The Guardian'It ought to be required reading for every civil servant, regulator and politician in the UK and elsewhere' Literary ReviewFinancial malpractice, we're told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. In Sabotage, political scientists Anastasia Nesvet...

This book provides the foundational knowledge essential for comprehending the functioning of financial markets and institutions and their current challenges. First, the book provides a general overview on the functioning of the EU financial system, examining financial markets and financial intermediaries’ features and activity and their contribution to economic growth. It also outlines the evolution of the EU integration process, giving an overview of the most important regulatory steps related...

The global scope of the changes in the international financial and monetary systems ensured that no nation-state could protect itself from their effects. The quarter-century, 1970-95, included the most extensive legislative overhaul of financial services policy since the Great Depression, if not the greatest set of changes ever. This book examines how five such states - Canada, France, Germany, UK, USA - adapted by reforming their financial services policies.

Combining comprehensive and up-to-date syllabus coverage with exercises and exam-style questions, this text focuses on financial services and their regulation. Awarded by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the FPC is designed for people involved in the selling of financial products or services. The FPC is the compulsory minimum standard required by the industry's regulatory body - the Personal Investment Authority. The AFPC (advanced) represents the next optional level of qualification. Th...

Combining comprehensive and up-to-date syllabus coverage with exercises and exam-style questions, this study guide focuses on protection, savings and investment. Awarded by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the FPC is designed for people involved in the selling of financial products or services. The FPC is the compulsory minimum standard required by the industry's regulatory body - the Personal Investment Authority. The AFPC (advanced) represents the next optional level of qualification.

Combining comprehensive and up-to-date syllabus coverage with exercises and exam-style questions, this text focuses on personal investment planning. Awarded by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the FPC is designed for people involved in the selling of financial products or services. The FPC is the compulsory minimum standard required by the industry's regulatory body - the Personal Investment Authority. The AFPC (advanced) represents the next optional level of qualification. This range is...

This book aims to provide a thoroughly updated overview and evaluation of the industrial organization of banking. It examines the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation from the perspective of a variety of public policy issues, including bank competition and risk, market discipline, antitrust issues, and capital regulation. New to this edition are discussions of the economic foundations of international banking, macroprudential regulation, and international coordination...

Of all the companies affected by the attacks of 11 September, none was more devastated than Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services conglomerate, who lost 658 people. CEO Howard Lutnick survived only because he had taken his son to school that day. He vowed to restore the company. but how can you focus on work when your brother and best friend are among those murdered? How can you grieve when all the families are looking to you to be strong and help them? How can you help them when some o...