This book is intended for those who want to learn how to use R's capabilities to build models in quantitative finance at a more advanced level. If you wish to perfectly take up the rhythm of the chapters, you need to be at an intermediate level in quantitative finance and you also need to have a...

Project portfolio management (PfM) is a critically important discipline, which organizations must embrace in order to extract the maximum value from their project investments. Essentially, PfM can be defined as the translation of strategy and organizational objectives into projects, programs,...

THE ESSENTIAL BUFFETT -- CONTENTS -- 1 THE UNREASONABLE MAN -- Lesson 1 -- Lesson 2 -- A Better Yardstick -- Lesson 3 -- The Search for Patterns -- Why Has Wall Street Ignored Warren Buf fett? -- A Different Way of Thinking -- 2 THE WORLD'S GREATEST INVESTOR -- Investment Beginnings -- The...

Portfolio optimization is a widely studied problem in finance dating back to the work of Merton from the 1960s. While many approaches rely on dynamic programming, some recent contributions usemartingale techniques to determine the optimal portfolio allocation.Using the latter approach, we follow...

Intro -- About Island Press -- About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Ch. 1: Financial Innovation for Conservation: An American Tradition -- Ch. 2: Conservation Finance Viewed as a System: Tackling the Financial...

Praise for Investment Manager Analysis "This is a book that should have been written years ago. It provides a practical, thorough, and completely objective method to analyze and select an investment manager. It takes the mystery (and the consultants) out of the equation. Without question, this...

Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 A FIRST VISIT TO INTEREST RATES AND BONDS -- 2 AN ARBITRAGE-ENFORCED VALUATION OF BONDS -- 3 THE VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF RATES OF RETURN ON BONDS: YIELD TO MATURITY AND HORIZON RATE OF RETURN -- 4 DURATION: DEFINITION, MAIN PROPERTIES, AND USES -- 5 DURATION AT WORK: THE...

Intro -- Series page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About this book -- Whom is this book for? -- Outline of the book -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Banks and Risk Management -- Evolution of Bank Capital Regulation -- Creating Value from Risk...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Game Change -- 1 Industry Challenges -- 2 Why Johnny Can't Improve -- 3 New Analytic Framework -- 4 Process and Behaviors -- 5 Feedback in Action -- 6 Phantastic Risks -- Part Two: Behavioral Matters -- 7...