Details how mutual funds are marketed, regulated, and invested in stocks and bonds. The book also describes the critical factors needed to choose a specific fund for your investment or retirement plan, including what to look for when reading prospectuses, shareholder reports and third party...

Applications of news analytics in finance : a review / Leela Mitra and Gautam Mitra -- News analytics : framework, techniques, and metrics / Sanjiv R. Das -- Managing real-time risks and returns : the Thomson Reuters NewsScope event indices / Alexander D. Healy and Andrew W. Lao -- Measuring the...

In chapter 1, there is a review three math topics -- logarithms, combinatorics, and geometric series - and one financial topic, discount factors. Emphasis will be given to the specific aspects of these topics that are most relevant to risk management. In chapter 2, the author explores the...