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Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments offers an introduction to the riskiness of stock markets and the application of derivative instruments in managing exposure to such risk. Structured in two parts, the first part offers an introduction to stock market and bond market risk as encountered by investors seeking investment growth. The second part of the text introduces the financial derivative instruments that provide for either a reduced exposure (hedging) or an increased exposure...

'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency. Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews...

In the midst of globalization, technological change and economic anxiety, we have deep doubts about how well that task of investor protection is being performed. In the U.S., the focus is on the Securities & Exchange Commission. Part of the explanation is economic and political: the failure to know the right balance between investor protection and capital formation, and the resulting battle among interest groups over their preferred solutions. This book's main claim, however, is that regulation...

Over the last decade China has engaged in one of the most comprehensive management reforms ever undertaken. These reforms are expected to determine China's ability to modernize and become a major world economic power. At the same time, the reforms touch on major political and social issues within the PRC, thereby affecting the structure and control of Chinese society. The contributors to this volume analyze Chinese management and organizations in seven chapters that assess the impact of the refo...

This package aims to inform readers of what offshore tax havens are, how they can be put to work to the advantage of individuals and corporations, and how to set them up. It also explains what tax consequences are, how to maintain the tax haven, and how to maximize their benefits.

The go-to guide to acing the Series 63 Exam! Passing the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination (Series 63) qualifies an individual to act as a securities agent. The exam covers the principles of state securities regulation as reflected in the Uniform Securities Act and its amendments and related rules, as well as ethical practices and fiduciary obligations. Many states require an agent to pass the Series 63 exam in addition to the Series 6, 7 or 62 exams to conduct securities business w...

Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit stehen die 49, 26 BoersG. Hiernach wird bestraft, wer einen unerfahrenen Anleger zu einem Boersenspekulationsgeschaft verleitet und hierbei dessen Unerfahrenheit zu einem Geschaftsabschluss ausnutzt. Schutzzweck dieser als abstraktes Gefahrdungsdelikt ausgestalteten Norm ist folglich ein fruhzeitiger Vermoegensschutz und somit der Anlegerschutz an sich. Schwerpunkt der Arbeit war herauszufinden, welche Rolle die 49, 26 BoersG im heutigen Normgesamtgefuge anlegerschutze...