State-of-the-art algorithmic deep learning and tensoring techniques for financial institutions The computational demand of risk calculations in financial institutions has ballooned and shows no sign of stopping. It is no longer viable to simply add more computing power to deal with this increased demand. The solution? Algorithmic solutions based on deep learning and Chebyshev tensors represent a practical way to reduce costs while simultaneously increasing risk calculation capabilities. Machine Learning for Risk Calculations: A Practitioner's View provides an in-depth review of a number of algorithmic solutions and demonstrates how they can be used to overcome the massive computational burden of risk calculations in financial institutions. This book will get you started by reviewing fundamental techniques, including deep learning and Chebyshev tensors. You'll then discover algorithmic tools that, in combination with the fundamentals, deliver actual solutions to the real problems financial institutions encounter on a regular basis. Numerical tests and examples demonstrate how these solutions can be applied to practical problems, including XVA and Counterparty Credit Risk, IMM capital, PFE, VaR, FRTB, Dynamic Initial Margin, pricing function calibration, volatility surface parametrisation, portfolio optimisation and others. Finally, you'll uncover the benefits these techniques provide, the practicalities of implementing them, and the software which can be used. Review the fundamentals of deep learning and Chebyshev tensors Discover pioneering algorithmic techniques that can create new opportunities in complex risk calculation Learn how to apply the solutions to a wide range of real-life risk calculations. Download sample code used in the book, so you can follow along and experiment with your own calculations Realize improved risk management whilst overcoming the burden of limited computational power Quants, IT professionals, and financial risk managers will benefit from this practitioner-oriented approach to state-of-the-art risk calculation.

Performance Contracting is a must-read for those concerned about energy and the environment. It examines state-of-the-art facts and pragmatic realities from financing to measurement and verification, and includes up-to-date "how-to's" for both end users and energy service companies. Readers will find expert advice on RFPs and RFQs, tips on making an energy project investment worthy, and guidelines for effectively negotiating and developing energy services agreements. They will also learn the key strategies for managing risks, both from a user's and a service provider's point of view, as well as ways to expand business and serve customers more effectively.

A comprehensive look at the tools and techniques used in quantitative equity management

Some books attempt to extend portfolio theory, but the real issue today relates to the practical implementation of the theory introduced by Harry Markowitz and others who followed. The purpose of this book is to close the implementation gap by presenting state-of-the art quantitative techniques and strategies for managing equity portfolios.

Throughout these pages, Frank Fabozzi, Sergio Focardi, and Petter Kolm address the essential elements of this discipline, including financial model building, financial engineering, static and dynamic factor models, asset allocation, portfolio models, transaction costs, trading strategies, and much more. They also provide ample illustrations and thorough discussions of implementation issues facing those in the investment management business and include the necessary background material in probability, statistics, and econometrics to make the book self-contained.Written by a solid author team who has extensive financial experience in this areaPresents state-of-the art quantitative strategies for managing equity portfoliosFocuses on the implementation of quantitative equity asset managementOutlines effective analysis, optimization methods, and risk models

In today's financial environment, you have to have the skills to analyze, optimize and manage the risk of your quantitative equity investments. This guide offers you the best information available to achieve this goal.

An incisive and comprehensive exploration of value investing in the real world In the newly revised second edition of Common Stocks and Common Sense: The Strategies, Analyses, Decisions, and Emotions of a Particularly Successful Value Investor, celebrated Wall Street value investor Ed Wachenheim walks readers through eleven revealing case studies of real-world investments made by the author's firm, Greenhaven Associates. Each case uncovers unique insights into the technical and human elements that go into any profitable investment transaction. This latest edition includes brand-new content with coverage of the electric vehicle (EV) market, and in-depth discussions of General Motors. Refreshed and renewed content also appears throughout the book, with several new investment theses appearing for the first time in this edition. Readers will also find: An emphasis on the softer, human side of value investing, including the biases and emotions that can get in the way of successful investments New material covering emerging and high-growth industries Value investing advice that goes beyond balance sheets and technical ratios An essential handbook for retail value investors everywhere, Common Stocks and Common Sense will also earn a place on the bookshelves of portfolio and fund managers, securities analysts, and anyone else with a personal or professional interest in the financial markets.

Looking for steady retirement income? Read this book! Turning retirement savings into a steady income is a big step toward a worry-free retirement. This book introduces you to how to add annuities to your investment mix. It helps you evaluate how to select the best annuities for your needs and steer clear of the worst. You’ll learn how different types of annuities can help you turn your retirement savings into a monthly paycheck, protect your investments from market ups and downs, postpone taxes, stay in your home for the rest of your life, and even buy long-term care insurance for less.. Written by an annuity thought leader who is a frequent guest-expert on webcasts, podcasts and radio broadcasts as well as editor and publisher of Retirement Income Journal, the book offers the knowledge earned from interviews with hundreds of annuity industry insiders on their own turf. Get insight into which annuities do (or don’t) provide near-retirees and retirees with solid value. Stretch your savings into lifelong income Ask smarter questions when talking to an agent, broker or adviser Retire with less anxiety about the market Feel more in control of your financial life Annuities For Dummies is the must-have guide for anyone making retirement plans or managing their retirement savings.

This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come from 15 different countries) and industrial sectors.
* Benjamin Esty, of the Harvard Business School, is one of the leading scholars in project finance.
* Project finance is becoming the financing mechanism of choice for many private firms.
* Cases require the reader to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines when making a single managerial decision. This integration of functional areas such as strategy, operations, ethics, and human resource management encourages the reader to adopt a more integrative perspective and understanding of the interconnectedness of managerial decision-making.

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This book presents a unified treatment of various problems arising in the theory of financial markets with friction. It gives a succinct account of arbitrage theory for financial markets with and without transaction costs based on a synthesis of ideas.

Cutting-edge insight from the leader in trading technology
In Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures, noted technical analyst John Ehlers continues to enlighten readers on the art of predicting the market based on tested systems. With application of his engineering expertise, Ehlers explains the latest, most advanced techniques that help traders predict stock and futures markets with surgical precision. Unique new indicators and automatic trading systems are described in text as well as Easy Language and EFS code. The approaches are universal and robust enough to be applied to a full range of market conditions.
John F. Ehlers (Santa Barbara, CA) is President of MESA Software (www.mesasoftware.com) and has also written Rocket Science for Traders (0-471-40567-1) as well as numerous articles for Futures and Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazines.

This book will help managers understand organizations in non-quantitative manner. The modern-day managers are challenged with dealing with these constantly increasing complexities in the pursuit of efficiency and effectiveness. They must understand how constant changes influence their tasks so they can contribute to establishing a fast-reacting organization. The authors analyze how metaphors can serve as methods or tools that provide insight into how organizations function, and how best to deal with making them successful in a state of permanent change.

Idea generation for value-oriented investing, from the top names in finance The Manual of Ideas is the indispensable resource top investment firms like Berkshire Hathaway rely on for cutting edge research and investment ideas. As the definitive source for value investing opportunities, this book takes you inside the minds of the world's top money managers to learn how they generate the bright ideas that lead to big profits. This new second edition includes insights from more than 100 exclusive interviews with leading fund managers to give you access to the thought processes of super value investors including Warren Buffett, Tom Gayner, and Joel Greenblatt. Real-life case studies bring each approach to life, revealing key lessons along the way, and new tables and charts illuminate important concepts to provide a quicker, easier read. Successful investing begins with idea generation. Following the crowd will only get you so far, and the most successful investors from around the globe have developed their own approaches to identifying the right opportunities at the right time. This book lays out a gold mine of a framework to help you generate your own new and profitable value investment ideas. * Learn how the wizards of Wall Street find stocks * Apply each approach appropriately and effectively * Gain personal investing insight from leading fund managers * Identify, analyze, and implement the best value investing opportunities Creative thinking is the unexpected lifeblood of investing, which is why great ideas are the focus of this book. If you're ready to take investing to the next level, you're going to have to realign your thinking and The Manual of Ideas is your roadmap to untapped opportunity.

This essential guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess need, develop care plans and select suppliers of care. It clearly explains:

• the reasons for the shift to commissioning and purchasing away from direct provision
• the distinction between commissioning and purchasing
• how to ensure that the commissioning and purchasing process fully reflects the views of users and carers
• contracts and tenders
• costs and prices in relation to providing quality care
• how safeguards can be built into the commissioning and purchasing process.

This is an invaluable resource that focuses on the practical skills required to deliver effective care. It has been written for social care students, frontline staff and their managers to help them through the process.

A lot of economic problems can formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions. Various mathematical theories have been supplying economists with indispensable machineries for these problems arising in economic theory. Conversely, mathematicians have been stimulated by various mathematical difficulties raised by economic theories. The series is designed to bring together those mathematicians who were seriously interested in getting new challenging stimuli from economic theories with those economists who are seeking for effective mathematical tools for their researchers. Members of the editorial board of this series consists of following prominent economists and mathematicians: Managing Editors: S. Kusuoka (Univ. Tokyo), T. Maruyama (Keio Univ.) Editors: R. Anderson (U.C.Berkeley), C. Castaing (Univ. Montpellier), F. H. Clarke (Univ. Lyon I), G. Debreu (U.C. Berkeleyer), E. Dierker (Univ. Vienna), D. Duffie (Stanford Univ.), L.C. Evans (U.C. Berkeley), T. Fujimoto (Okayama Univ.), J. -M. Grandmont (CREST-CNRS), N. Hirano (Yokohama National Univ.), L. Hurwicz (Univ. of Minnesota), T. Ichiishi (Ohio State Univ.), A. Ioffe (Israel Institute of Technology), S. Iwamoto (Kyushu Univ.), K. Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo), K. Kawamata (Keio Univ.), N. Kikuchi (Keio Univ.), H. Matano (Univ. Tokyo), K. Nishimura (Kyoto Univ.), M. K. Richter (Univ. Minnesota), Y. Takahashi (Kyoto Univ.), M. Valadier (Univ. Montpellier II), M. Yano (Keio Univ).

Mortgage-backed securities are becoming an increasingly popular tool for constructing a solid portfolio in today's turbulent market. Frank Fabozzi leads more than a dozen experts in examining all the latest trends of this investment strategy, providing in-depth insight and explaining key areas of the commercial mortgage-backed securities landscape. Topics covered include measuring risks in the whole-loan commercial market, multi-family mortgage-backed securities, and B Pieces. Following on the heels of Advances in Mortgage-Backed Securities and The Handbook of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities, Trends in Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities further demonstrates editor Fabozzi's authority in the subject.

This unique and popular text, now in a sixth edition, clearly and succinctly guides Accounting students and researchers in their understanding and conducting of research from conception to completion, across a wide range of research methods, including quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research. This latest edition provides new and extended coverage, including the role and impact of social media, big data analytics, data mining, and emerging and disruptive technologies, such as Blockchain. There is also a renewed focus on the role of ethics in Accounting research. This text remains essential reading for those completing a research methods course, project/dissertation or other form of individual study in Accounting. Malcolm Smith was Foundation Professor of Accounting at the University of South Australia.

This monograph presents a modern treatment of (1) stochastic differential equations and (2) diffusion and jump-diffusion processes. The simultaneous treatment of diffusion processes and jump processes in this book is unique: Each chapter starts from continuous processes and then proceeds to processes with jumps.In the first part of the book, it is shown that solutions of stochastic differential equations define stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms. Then, the relation between stochastic flows and heat equations is discussed. The latter part investigates fundamental solutions of these heat equations (heat kernels) through the study of the Malliavin calculus. The author obtains smooth densities for transition functions of various types of diffusions and jump-diffusions and shows that these density functions are fundamental solutions for various types of heat equations and backward heat equations. Thus, in this book fundamental solutions for heat equations and backward heat equations are constructed independently of the theory of partial differential equations.Researchers and graduate student in probability theory will find this book very useful.

This book is a detailed and step-by-step introduction to the mathematical foundations of ordinary and partial differential equations, their approximation by the finite difference method and applications to computational finance. The book is structured so that it can be read by beginners, novices and expert users. Part A Mathematical Foundation for One-Factor Problems Chapters 1 to 7 introduce the mathematical and numerical analysis concepts that are needed to understand the finite difference method and its application to computational finance. Part B Mathematical Foundation for Two-Factor Problems Chapters 8 to 13 discuss a number of rigorous mathematical techniques relating to elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in two space variables. In particular, we develop strategies to preprocess and modify a PDE before we approximate it by the finite difference method, thus avoiding ad-hoc and heuristic tricks. Part C The Foundations of the Finite Difference Method (FDM) Chapters 14 to 17 introduce the mathematical background to the finite difference method for initial boundary value problems for parabolic PDEs. It encapsulates all the background information to construct stable and accurate finite difference schemes. Part D Advanced Finite Difference Schemes for Two-Factor Problems Chapters 18 to 22 introduce a number of modern finite difference methods to approximate the solution of two factor partial differential equations. This is the only book we know of that discusses these methods in any detail. Part E Test Cases in Computational Finance Chapters 23 to 26 are concerned with applications based on previous chapters. We discuss finite difference schemes for a wide range of one-factor and two-factor problems. This book is suitable as an entry-level introduction as well as a detailed treatment of modern methods as used by industry quants and MSc/MFE students in finance. The topics have applications to numerical analysis, science and engineering. More on computational finance and the author's online courses, see www.datasim.nl.

Hedge your stock market bets with funds that can deliver returns in down markets Hedge Funds For Dummies is your introduction to the popular investing strategy that can help you gain positive returns, no matter what direction the market takes. Hedge funds use pooled funds to focus on high-risk, high-return investments, often with a focus on shorting--so you can earn profit even when stocks fall. But there's a whole lot more to it than that. This book teaches you about the diversity of hedge funds, their pros and cons, and their potentially lucrative role as a part of your portfolio. We also give you tips on finding a broker that is right for you and the investment you wish to make. Let Dummies be your investment advisor as you set up a strategy that will deliver results. Understand the ins and outs of hedge funds and how they fit in your portfolio Choose the funds that make the most sense for your unique situation Build a hedge fund strategy based on tested techniques and the latest market data Avoid common mistakes and identify solid funds to ensure success This Dummies guide is for traders and investors looking to learn more about hedge funds and how they can become lucrative investments in a down market.

Praise for Computer-Aided Fraud

Prevention and Detection: A Step-by-Step Guide

"A wonderful desktop reference for anyone trying to move from traditional auditing to integrated auditing. The numerous case studies make it easy to understand and provide a how-to for those?seeking to implement automated tools including continuous assurance. Whether you are just starting down the path or well on your way, it is a valuable resource."
-Kate M. Head, CPA, CFE, CISA

Associate Director, Audit and Compliance

University of South Florida

"I have been fortunate enough to learn from Dave's work over the last fifteen years, and this publication is no exception. Using his twenty-plus years of experience, Dave walks through every aspect of detecting fraud with a computer from the genesis of the act to the mining of data for its traces and its ultimate detection. A complete text that first explains how one prevents and detects fraud regardless of technology and then shows how by automating such procedures, the examiners' powers become superhuman."
-Richard B. Lanza, President, Cash Recovery Partners, LLC

"Computer-Aided Fraud Prevention and Detection: A Step-by-Step Guide helps management and auditors answer T. S. Eliot's timeless question, 'Where is the knowledge lost in information?' Data analysis provides a means to mine the knowledge hidden in our information. Dave Coderre has long been a leader in educating auditors and others about Computer Assisted Audit Techniques. The book combines practical approaches with unique data analysis case examples that compel the readers to try the techniques themselves."
-Courtenay Thompson Jr.

Consultant, Courtenay Thompson & Associates

Discover the best investment options for growing your wealth faster, and start living the life you really want In Replace Your Salary by Investing, financial advisor and money geek Ben Nash delivers a start-to-finish game plan to get more out of your money. You'll learn practical, real-world strategies, skipping the money jargon in favour of actionable principles you can apply immediately to invest more and grow your wealth. Whether you find yourself in a situation where you're not investing as much as you'd like, you're making a good income but don't have much to show for it, you're paying too much tax, or you're feeling like you're never going to achieve financial independence... Ben shows you ways to realise a lifestyle you can enjoy today, while planning for and creating the future you want for tomorrow. Build up your money muscle and form money habits that will benefit you for life Understand how to invest strategically with property, shares, crypto, and superannuation Cut your tax bill so you can use more of your income to invest and get ahead For anyone who wants to find their financial security sooner, Replace Your Salary by Investing is the hands-on, step-by-step guide that will help you take control and get more out of the money you have today.

Essential guidance for companies to examine and improve their fraud programs

Corporate governance legislation has become increasingly concerned with the ongoing resilience of organizations and, particularly, with their ability to resist corporate fraud from the lowest levels to the upper echelons of executive management. It has become unacceptable for those responsible for corporate governance to claim, "I didn't know." "Corporate Fraud and Internal Control" focuses on the appropriateness of the design of the system of internal controls in fraud risk mitigation, as well as the mechanisms to ensure effective implementation and monitoring on an ongoing basis.Applicable for a wide variety of environments, including governmental, financial, manufacturing and e-business sectorsIncludes case studies from the United States, Europe, and AfricaFollows the standards laid down by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the internationally recognized body governing this activityAccompanying interrogation software demo (software demo is not included as part of this book's e-book file, but is available for download after purchase)

Written by a fraud prevention leader, "Corporate Fraud and Internal Control" addresses the concerns of both management and audit in ensuring a demonstrable level of activity to ensure sustainability of the organization and minimization of the impacts of fraud, upon early detection.

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America's Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities-like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways that is sure to inform future decisions and policies for U.S. infrastructure.