Investing In Preferred Stock: An Introduction For Modern Income Investors (2nd Edition)

Preferred stocks, also known as preferreds, have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, but few investors understand the features, risks, and returns of these intriguing investments. In this revised and updated second edition, Paul Josephs provides an unbiased and easy-to-understand introduction to preferred stocks, including: * The features of typical preferred stocks, including their pros and cons relative to common stocks and bonds * How to research and buy preferreds, including individual stocks, ETFs, and closed-end funds * Major risks of preferred stocks * How preferred stocks behave in good, stable, and tough economic times * Investment strategies and practical tips for investors who choose to invest in preferreds This book provides modern income investors with the facts they need to decide if preferred stocks deserve a place in their portfolio.

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The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of Compounding

In this valuable book, professional money manager Scott G. Kyle explains in entertaining and understandable terms how to tap into the ultimate strength of compounding to improve your stock market returns. Kyle describes how to construct a portfolio, analyze companies, and utilize options – all with the goal of giving you the tools to become a great trader and investor.

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Principles of Financial Economics

This book introduces graduate students in economics to the subfield of financial economics. It stresses the link between financial economics and equilibrium theory, devoting less attention to purely financial topics such as valuation of derivatives. Since students often find this link hard to grasp, the treatment aims to make the connection explicit and clear in each stage of the exposition. Emphasis is placed on detailed study of two-date models, because almost all of the key ideas in financial economics can be developed in the two-date setting. The analysis is intended to be comparable in rigor to the best work in microeconomics; at the same time, the authors provide enough discussion and examples to make the ideas readily understandable.

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Investing for Sustainability: The Management of Mineral Wealth

Mineral deposits are non-renewable; they do not grow in the ground. Sustainable use of finite mineral wealth requires that revenues from mineral extraction be invested in renewable wealth, education and infrastructure, machines and other production equipment, or in financial assets. Different countries, states and provinces have done so with a varying degree of success. Investing for Sustainability: The Management of Mineral Wealth highlights mineral rents investment funds in Norway, Alaska and Alberta, all of which derive considerable revenues from the production of petroleum bound to diminish over time. The book examines the institutional and political framework in which these funds are embedded and how successfully they have been used for making non-renewable petroleum wealth permanent.
Investing for Sustainability: The Management of Mineral Wealth begins with a discussion of the elusive concept of sustainability. New technology and substitution has made a resource like peat obsolete long before it became exhausted physically. Jevons’ famous book “The Coal Question” is discussed at some length as a case of unwarranted concern about the depletion of resources. The book also highlights other cases which strike a less happy note. Nauru, one of the smallest sovereign states in the world, has for decades lived off phosphate resources that are now running out. Nauru attempted to make its phosphate wealth permanent through investment funds but failed.
Despite its success with its Permanent Fund, less of the oil wealth of Alaska has been made permanent than would appear warranted, and the same is true of Alberta and Norway. Judging from the experiences of the three funds, and the current political debate in Norway, Investing for Sustainability: The Management of Mineral Wealth suggests that it is essential that the citizenry at large benefit directly from mineral rents investment funds if they are to succeed.

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Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance (Wiley Paperbacks)

The Wiley Paperback Series makes valuable content more accessible to a new generation of statisticians, mathematicians and scientists.

Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance offers a thorough yet accessible reference for researchers and practitioners of insurance mathematics. Building on recent and rapid developments in applied probability the authors describe in general terms models based on Markov processes, martingales and various types of point processes.

Discussing frequently asked insurance questions, the authors present a coherent overview of this subject and specifically address:

  1. the principle concepts of insurance and finance
  2. practical examples with real life data
  3. numerical and algorithmic procedures essential for modern insurance practices

Assuming competence in probability calculus, this book will provide a rigorous treatment of insurance risk theory recommended for researchers and students interested in applied probability as well as practitioners of actuarial sciences.

“An excellent text”

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics

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Dictionary of Finance, Investment and Banking

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Finance, Investment and Banking helps you understand and use financial language with more ease and confidence.

Compiled by a finance professional with real-world experience on three continents, it is a highly practical reference book containing the essential terminology of today’s international financial marketplace. It gives concise and clear definitions of well over 5,000 terms commonly used in the industry, covering the disciplines of accounting, banking, corporate finance, investment management and insurance.

This dictionary includes:

• New terminology, reflecting developments following the global financial crisis

• ‘Hot topics’ of Islamic finance, bank regulation, carbon/emissions trading, business law/bankruptcy and structured products.

• International coverage, with terminology used in Europe, Asia and the USA

• Technical and non-technical terms, colloquialisms, acronyms and foreign language terms

• 190 essential formulae and 50 diagrams to aid understanding

Companion website with extra features and information:
www.palgrave.com/banks

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What Can You Do With a Law Degree?: A Lawyer’s Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside & Around the Law

Written by a lawyer for lawyers, Deborah Arron’s book is a virtual encyclopedia for lawyers in transition, covering such topics as how to conduct a self-assessment and transferrable skills analysis, how to detect and prepare for layoff, how to establish a transitional financial plan, how to market your special talents, how to work with career consultants and headhunters, how to decide whether to stay in law or leave, how to avoid job-interview hell, how to handle compensation negotiations that work in your favor.

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The Economics of Risk and Time

This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and uncertainty, this book focuses on richer applications of expected utility in finance, macroeconomics, and environmental economics.The book covers these topics: expected utility theory and related concepts; the standard portfolio problem of choice under uncertainty involving two different assets; P the basic hyperplane separation theorem and log-supermodular functions as technical tools for solving various decision-making problems under uncertainty; s choice involving multiple risks; the Arrow-Debreu portfolio problem; consumption and saving; the equilibrium price of risk and time in an Arrow-Debreu economy; and dynamic models of decision making when a flow of information on future risks is expected over time. The book is appropriate for both students and professionals. Concepts are presented intuitively as well as formally, and the theory is balanced by empirical considerations. Each chapter concludes with a problem set.

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The How to Make Money in Stocks Complete Investing System: Your Ultimate Guide to Winning in Good Times and Bad

Anyone Can Learn to Invest Wisely With This Bestselling Investment System!

Through every type of market, William J. O’Neil’s national bestseller How to Make Money in Stocks has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to successful investing. O’Neil’s powerful CAN SLIM Investing System–a proven seven-step process for minimizing risk and maximizing gains–has influenced generations of investors.

Based on a major study of all the greatest stock market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expanded edition gives you:

  • Proven techniques for building stocks before they make big price gains
  • Tips on picking the best stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to maximize your gains
  • 100 new charts to help you spot today’s profitable trends
  • Strategies to help you avoid the most common investor mistakes!

The CAN SLIM Investing System
The American Association of Individual Investors 12-year study of over 50 leading investment strategies found O’Neil’s CAN SLIM System to be the top-performing strategy. CAN SLIM produced 2,763.3% over the 12 years vs. 14.9% for the S&P 500.

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting an eBay Business, 2nd Edition

The buck starts here!

eBay(r) is the Internet’s premier auction site and everyone’s favorite place to shop. It’s also the place to start a business and make money from the comfort of one’s home. Completely revised, this new edition will help readers create the eBay(r) business they dream of. There is also new and updated information on:
• The basics of eBay(r), the auction process, and the essentials of getting the business down on paper-including recordkeeping, accounting, taxes, insurance, legal issues, and other essential details
• Determining what to sell, how to price it, and working with services such as PayPal(r)
• The ins and outs of the biggest growing areas of eBay business-sourcing, wholesaling, and fixed price sales
• Cutting through the competition, improving profit margins, changing strategies, improved advertising and promotions, and more

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