Investment management is an introduction to investment analysis. The title focuses on investment in financial assets such as shares and bonds, and explains fundamental and technical analysis. It also investigates portfolio management and ways in which derivative instruments such as futures, options and swaps may be used for portfolio management. The authors of Investment management succeed in bringing an understanding of the relevant concepts across to the reader, while also stimulating interest in the topic. The title provides a framework and a thorough network of guidelines for the investment management student. It prepares the undergraduate student for postgraduate study, and is written with the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA (R)) Level I learning outcomes for investment analysis and portfolio management in mind.

FinTech has revolutionized the way financial services are delivered and consumed in the modern world and the use of central bank digital currencies is gaining traction. With these new advancements, further study is required to ensure they are utilized appropriately and reach their full potential. Exploring the Dark Side of FinTech and Implications of Monetary Policy examines recent advancements in central bank digital currency and many FinTech applications and discusses FinTech trends, possibilities, and challenges as well as different moral, ethical, and social issues. Covering key topics such as digital economy, monetary policy, and sustainability, this reference work is ideal for managers, industry professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Focusing on the developing economic challenges confronting Korea and the US in response to the aging of their populations, this timely book examines how public policies are evolving in light of demographic changes, the impact of aging on governmental expenditures, and transitions in the labor force associated with aging. International contributors comparatively analyze government approaches to population aging, illustrating the similar challenges faced across nations. Chapters draw attention to those particular issues that public policy plans must surmount, including funding pressures on retirement plans and the effects of an aging labor force on economic growth and productivity. They offer evidence on the scale of these challenges in Korea and the US and empirically evaluate how governments, employers, and individuals may respond to these issues in the years to come. Addressing fiscal sustainability and key social security programs, including the implications of the 2015 Korean pension reform and the economic difficulties entailed by the future of Medicare, this book investigates the implications of managing and sustaining welfare for an aging population. This cutting-edge book will be ideal reading for economists focusing on public policy and welfare programs, benefiting from the comparative approach to fiscal accountability and sustainability. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking insights into the consequences of an aging population and hoping to develop innovative methods and approaches to welfare.

Seize the advantage in every risk decision with the most misunderstood asset you have--human emotion

"If you are trying to solve the unsolvable, stop. Read this first and you will learn that the surest path to success will be to start with yourself; solve that conundrum and challenges like understanding how you do and should react to markets will come to be solvable."
--Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago

"When it comes to fast-moving global financial markets, professional investors strive to evaluate complex economic conditions from data analysis, economic reasoning, and professional judgment. This is what is taught in business schools. Denise Shull demonstrates how investment decision making is also determined by unconscious emotions and perceptions. "Market Mind Games" is a fascinating book that proposes a new and unexpected hypothesis about the factors that drive financial decision-making."
--A.G. Malliaris, Professor of Economics and Finance, Loyola University Chicago

"Denise Shull wants us to get in touch with our feelings, not to beat our bare chests and utter primordial screams. Far from it--her techniques are focused on making more money."
--"Financial Times"

"Denise Shull's gem of a book is long overdue. . . . "Market Mind Games"] has made the ability to analyze and overcome our unconscious biases and prejudices available to everyone."
--Dr. Donald T. Wargo, Department of Economics, Temple University

""Market Mind Games" is iconoclastic to say the very least Pay attention to the last word in the subtitle: "risk." This book will change your perspective on how to approach and think about the markets and your life "
--Michael J. Levas, Founder, Senior Managing Principal, and Director of Trading, Olympian Capital Management, LLC

"Denise changes the way you look at yourself and investing. Her insights and methods are necessary to succeed in the markets, period."
--Jared Levy, Portfolio Manager and author of "Your Options Handbook "

""Market Mind Games" offers a new school of trading psychology. Truly an important work that needs to be on the bookshelf of every serious market participant."
--Mike Bellafiore, author of "One Good Trade"

"Masterful explanation of not only why emotionless trading is a myth, but how we can take advantage of our natural wiring to gain an edge."
--Derek Hernquist, Chief Investment Officer, Integrative Capital, LLC

"Shull details ways to learn how you 'feel' before you 'act' so that your buy, sell, or hold decisions become more successful."
--E. Bernstein, OPUS Trading

"A must-read for those who want to make their livelihood as a professional investor, trader, or algorithmic trading developer."
--Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, Tabb Group

"Denise Shull enlightens the reader how to effectively unlock one's psychological capital and translate that awareness into clear and concise investment decisions."
--Grant Mashek, Managing Member, Palm Equity, LLC

"Shull's book is not only a great read but lays out an entirely more effective approach to thinking about any decision that involves the unknown--market related or not."
--Leslie Shaw, Ph.D., Behavioral Economics, and trained psychoanalyst

About the Book:

What if the mystery of market crashes stems from a simple but total misunderstanding of our own minds? Could everything we think we know about ourselves--intelligence and rationality versus emotion and irrationality--be wildly off the mark? Simply put: yes.

With these words, Denise Shull introduces her radical--and supremely rational-- approach to risk. Her vision stems from the indisputable fact that human beings can't make any decision at all without emotion and that emotion gets the first--and last--word when it comes to our perceptions and judgments.

Shull should know. She started out managing major accounts for IBM and then chose to research unconscious emotional patterns instead of getting her MBA. Next she became a trader and trading desk manager while continuing to study biopsychology.

We are all taught that sidelining our emotions is the best way to make good decisions-- Shull declares the converse: "emotions inform us." Attempting to control them actually increases the risks we take. Shull advocates treating feelings as data, and she convincingly argues that doing so eradicates the baffling question that repeats itself in our heads after making a poor investing decision: "What was I thinking?"

Through a series of "lectures," Shull logically but engagingly connects emotions, beliefs, and context to our innate reaction to uncertainty and risk (yes, the two are different). In "Market Mind Games," she merges more than 20 years of studying risk decisions into a single, astoundingly effective strategy.

A reasonable approach to emotion is the best and only way to win the investing game. The methods Shull details in "Market Mind Games" shake the foundation of conventional market and decision psychology. And, most important, they work.

Within the past decade, marketing has experienced three major challenges: generation gap, prosperity polarization, and digital divide. The disconnect between older corporate executives and their younger managers and customers has proven to be a significant challenge. Digitalization brings fear of the unknown with the threats of job loss and privacy concerns. However, it also brings the promise of exponential growth and better living for humanity. Businesses must break the divide to ensure that technological advancement will move forward and not be welcomed with resentment. Developing Relationships, Personalization, and Data Herald in Marketing 5.0 contrasts the advantages and disadvantages of modern marketing over traditional marketing and focuses on identifying how companies and society can be benefited by the technological advancement of marketing. Covering topics such as customer engagement, neuromarketing, and review rating prediction, this premier reference source is an essential resource for business leaders, marketing professionals, students and educators of higher education, university libraries, researchers, and academicians.

Advocating a style of law and a role for legal agency which returns to its essential humanist ideology and represents public spiritedness, this unique book confronts the myths surrounding globalisation, advancing the role for law as a change agent unburdened from its current market functionality. Mark Findlay argues that law has a new and urgent relevance to confront the absence of resilience in self-determined market places, and to make coherent the anarchic forces which are running, and ruining the world. The inevitability of law's re-invention during global crises is considered, offering a critical evaluation of the future of legal agency, service delivery and access to justice. Chapters also engage with citizen-centric surveillance society to examine the dangers to personal data, individual integrity, and work-life quality from unregulated mass data sharing. Exciting and thought-provoking, this book will be critical reading for scholars and students in law, economics and governance interested in globalisation and crises, such as pandemics, as well as populist politics and anxiety governance.

The definitive guide to long-term investing success-fully updated to address the realities of today's markets Technology, information overload, and increasing market dominance by expert investors and computers make it harder than ever to produce investing results that overcome operating costs and fees. Winning the Loser's Game reveals everything you need to know to reduce costs, fees, and taxes, and focus on long-term policies that are right for you. Candid, short, and super easy to read, Winning the Loser's Game walks you through the process of developing and implementing a powerful investing strategy that generates solid profits year after year. In this eagerly awaited new edition, Charles D. Ellis applies the expertise developed over his long, illustrious career. This updated edition includes: NEW CHAPTERS on bond investing, how investor behavior affects returns, and how technology and big data are challenging traditional investment decisions NEW RESEARCH and evidence supporting the case for indexing investment operations NEW INSIGHTS into the role of governance, developing a comprehensive saving strategy, and the power of regression to the mean Companies change, and markets and economies go up and down-sometimes a lot. But the core principles of successful investing never change-and never will. That's why, when you've read this book, you'll know all you really need to know to be successful in investing. With Winning the Loser's Game, you have everything you need to identify your unique investment objectives, develop a realistic and powerful investment program, and drive superior results.

Large infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than developing, financing and managing infrastructure assets themselves. Aligning public and private interests and institutional logics to create robust, decades-long service contracts subject to shifting economic and political contexts is a significant cross-sectoral governance challenge. This work summarizes over a decade of research conducted by scholars at Stanford s Global Projects Center and multiple US and International collaborators to enhance the governance of both infrastructure projects and institutional investors, whose long term, cash flow obligations align especially well with the kinds of long term inflation-adjusted returns that PPP infrastructure projects can generate. In these pages, multiple theoretical perspectives are integrated and combined with empirical evidence to examine how experiences from more mature PPP jurisdictions can help improve PPP governance approaches worldwide. The information contained here will appeal to engineering, economics, political science, public policy and finance scholars interested in the delivery of high-quality, sustainable infrastructure services to the citizens in countries with established and emerging market economies. Officials in national, state/provincial and local government agencies seeking alternative financing and service provision strategies for their civil and social infrastructure, and legislators and their staff members interested in promoting PPP legislation will find this book invaluable. It will also be of high interest to long-term investment professionals from pension funds, sovereign funds, family offices and university endowments seeking to deploy money into the infrastructure asset class, and practitioners seeking insights into methods for enhancing stakeholder incentive alignment, reducing transaction costs and improving project outcomes in PPPs. Contributors: B.G. Cameron, G. Carollo, C.B. Casady, E.F. Crawley, K. Eriksson, W. Feng, M.J. Garvin, K.E. Gasparro, R.R. Geddes, W.J. Henisz, D.R. Lessard, R.E. Levitt, T. Liu, A.H.B. Monk, D.A. Nguyen, C. Nowacki, W.R. Scott, R. Sharma, A.J. South

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful Research Agenda explores social finance and impact investing, surveying the latest research in this area. It considers a range of actors from across the social finance ecosystem, from investors and social banks, to the entrepreneurs who propose sustainable solutions and seek finance. Chapters discuss a variety of key topics, including impact investing practices by philanthropic and renewable energy sectors, the financing of social enterprises, social ventures and the effect of banking on the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Agenda also examines market-figures to provide a holistic overview of the social finance and impact investing markets. Considering the perspectives of both investors and investees, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for scholars and researchers in the areas of social finance, social entrepreneurship, impact investing and sustainability. Its evaluation of the challenges and successes of multiple social finance sectors will also be beneficial for practitioners in these fields.

This incisive book presents a critical evaluation of fintech, the use of technology to provide financial services. While fintech has been hailed as a game changer and a disruptor, Imad Moosa illustrates critical similarities between the present popularity of fintech and the dot-com hype of the early 2000s. Presenting a detailed account of the growth of the technology used in the provision of financial services, the book offers an expansive introduction to the fintech industry as it exists and functions in the 21st century. Moosa advances an in-depth assessment of the costs and benefits of financial technologies, debunking popular myths, highlighting the risks that necessitate regulation, and examining fintech-related fraud. In investigating the propaganda used to justify the 'war on cash' and glorify cryptocurrencies, the book considers whether fintech is an evolution or a revolution, ultimately characterising fintech as a transitory hype. Utilising empirical data and topical case studies to underpin its analysis of fintech, this timely book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in financial technology. Its investigation into proliferating regulatory problems brought about by the emergence of small firms will also prove beneficial to politicians and policymakers.

Familiarise yourself with the core concepts surrounding Corporate Finance with this reader-friendly text. Corporate Finance: Principles and Practice, 8th Edition by Denzil Watson and Antony Head, is a comprehensive guide to the field, introducing you to the key topics and basic areas of Corporate Finance. This thoroughly updated edition is ideal for students in accounting, business, or finance-related studies at undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional levels. Written and structured in a reader-friendly style for those new to the subject, the book explains clearly and step-by-step the essential principles and mathematical techniques needed without burdening you with unnecessary detail. The questions for review and discussion throughout the book and the comprehensive references with further reading suggestions at the end of the text, aim to support self-study and help you develop critical thinking skills. The eighth edition is fully updated with new and improved questions and refreshed chapter vignettes, offering a deeper understanding of the topics introduced. This edition is also updated with the latest changes in regulations and taxation, ensuring your learning is in line with the most recent developments in the field. The text also includes numerous examples to help you connect the theoretical information with practical knowledge and understand how corporate finance principles work in action. Learn everything you need to know about the essential concepts in Corporate Finance with this market-leading text and get a glimpse of the tools and techniques that managers use in the real world to achieve corporate goals in the business environment. MyLab Finance is not included. Students, if MyLab (R) Finance is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyLab Finance should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information