Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets. "Williams combined original theoretical concepts with enlightening and entertaining commentary based on his own experiences in the rough-and-tumble world of investment." Williams' discovery was to project an estimate that offers intrinsic value and it is called the 'Dividend Discount Model' which is still used today by professional investors on the institutional side of markets.

In today's ultra-competitive global economy, intangibles are increasingly taking centre stage in firms' business strategies and investors' valuations. Physical and financial assets are becoming commodities, yielding at best a competitive return on investment. In their place, intangible assets such as patents, brands, unique business processes, breakthrough scientific discoveries and strategic alliances are what firms are using to create dominant market positions, control risk, generate abnormal profits, and achieve growth and wealth. The dramatic rise and fall of high-technology company valuations has brought the unusual economic characteristics of intangible assets into the public arena. The concurrent advantages and vulnerabilities of intangible-intensive companies has highlighted the importance of having an in-depth understanding of the economics of intangibles and developing tools to better manage and evaluate them. This reader provides that understanding by bringing together the best research and advocacy on intangibles.

Giving IT professionals in financial services firms a rounded and comprehensive grounding in their knowledge of their industry, this book offers a primer on the major financial instruments, transactions, and processes, as well as a sound knowledge of the principles of good IT management in the industry.

The book gives readers a clear understanding of equities, bonds, currencies, listed derivatives and OTC derivatives. It explains transactions in those instruments and the requirements of business systems that process these transactions. Transactions covered include (inter-alia) agency and principal purchases and sales, loans and deposits, repos and reverse repos, stock loans; and also the Sharia-compliant 'Islamic' transactions that may be used as alternatives to interest bearing transactions.

Andrew Bradford gives an introduction to how investment firms are regulated; offers an understanding of the STP (Straight-through-Processing) concept following the trade cycle for the transactions from order through to execution through pre-settlement to final settlement; covers basic accounting procedures for the transactions; and conveys the basic principles of good IT management in the investment industry.

Investment ] Stock Trading

Screen For Winners, Hold Them Longer, Realize Higher Returns

Great Companies, Great Charts

"Great Companies, Great Charts" is a simple and logical approach to stock trading that can help you beat the indexes and achieve great returns.

Andy Dunn teaches you his trend-following, self-disciplined trading style. Dunn uses online stock-screening tools to find fundamentally excellent companies with technically attractive charts. This double-barreled approach identifies stocks that are more likely to grow at a faster rate than the market. "Great Companies, Great Charts" covers the investment process, including how to:

Scan for the best stocks Enter trades with buy stops Exit trades with sell stops Protect equity with trailing stops Adjust for volatility with the trading range Reduce risk with portfolio allocation

Real Estate-Backed Securities provides today's most concise yet comprehensive understanding of passive real estate investing. Issues discussed include agency passthrough securities and mortgage strips, agency collateralized mortgage obligations, nonagency residential MBS, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and more.

Neil Woodford was the UK's most celebrated fund manager. Savers who invested GBP1,000 with him in 1988 saw their money increase to GBP25,000 over 25 years. At the peak of his career he was managing GBP33 billion for hundreds of thousands of investors. When he started his own fund management company in 2014, within just a few weeks it had attracted GBP5bn from his loyal fan base, including some of the City of London's biggest hitters. Life was good. Away from work he was collecting high-performance supercars and chunky designer watches; he was rarely out of the saddle of his favourite horse. The BBC called him the "man who can't stop making money". And then it all came to a sudden stop. This book tells the dramatic untold story behind Woodford's stunning rise and fall, and reveals why his multi-billion-pound investment empire really collapsed in such an abrupt and catastrophic manner. In a fast-moving and compelling narrative, reporter David Ricketts takes readers inside the rooms where extraordinary sums of other people's money were wagered, trapped and, ultimately, lost, in a scandal still sending shockwaves through the world of finance. Thanks to unique and unprecedented access to the most important players, we meet an eccentric cast of characters and go inside the institutions involved, from Woodford's own firm to those that made huge sums endorsing him - as well as those who failed to raise the alarm before it was too late.

Despite all the securities laws enacted to prevent fraud, Let the buyer beware still reigns in the new issue market. Everyone who has ever jumped at a get-rich-quick scheme with a public offering touted as a financial bonanza, only to find later that they have been burnt, will profit from The ABCs of IPOs. Formerly an engineering manager and risk-seeker, Mr. Chechile combines his experiences as a long-time investor with knowledge as a stockbroker to reveal how to avoid money traps, not only with IPOs, the crown jewel of new issues, but also with a wide range of popular new issue securities, including limited partnerships, convertible securities, and more. The ABCs of IPOs explains the rules of the game, the roles of all the players, the arenas in which securities traders do battle, how to financially evaluate business organizations, and the not-so-obvious signals identifying which new issues have the potential to succeed, and which will likely be turkeys. Mr. broke while pursuing new issue investments, and makes recommendations for tactical maneuvers investors must make once their new issue, especially an initial public offering, starts trading in the marketplace.

Praise for Coach Yourself to Success

"Knowing how to make money and hold onto your money has never been easy. Joe's strategies are clear, accessible, and performance based. Joe, thanks for taking the mystery out of investing."
--Maria Bartiromo, host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated program the Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo and CNBC's Closing Bell.

"Leave it to Joe to look out for the rest of us Joes and Joannes. Practical. Useful. Meaningful. The man who democratized trading has now leveled the playing field."
--Neil Cavuto, Vice President of FOX News Channel, host of Your World with Neil Cavuto and author of the New York Times bestseller, More than Money

"Joe Moglia has provided a coach's playbook for everyone. This is an invaluable tool for executing the right investing moves to win the game!"
--Bill Bolster, former CEO CNBC, CNBC Intl.

"If there is a parallel between football and investing, it is that to be successful you have to stick to the fundamentals. 'Coach' Joe Moglia lays out the fundamentals for you in a concise, straightforward manner. Read it and win."
--Vince Lombardi, Jr.

"Coach Joe Moglia knows the game and knows it well. His clearly written book is indispensable for the novice and great fun for the knowledgeable."
--Bob Kerrey, President, New School University

"As the president of Ameritrade, Joe Moglia revolutionized online trading, making individual investors successful as never before. In Coach Yourself to Success, Moglia's insights give individual investors a new and powerful tool to achieve their financial objectives."
--Roger McNamee, cofounder of Elevation Partners, Silver LakePartners, and Integral Capital Partners, and author of The New Normal

The Repo Handbook, Second Edition presents an overview of repo vehicles and markets with sufficient depth for those seeking detailed explanations. In three parts it demonstrates how these secured loans fit into global capital markets and why they account for up to 50% of daily settlement activity in non-US government bonds worldwide. This new edition replaces old examples and introduces new developments, such as structured finance repo and associated topics such as Basel II regulatory rules. In addition, 12 of 18 chapters feature new sections and 4 have been substantially rewritten. The UK gilt and US Treasury repo markets are explored through worked examples, and there are new sections on funding arbitrage trades, risk exposures, and regulatory capital. It also places repo in context within bank asset-liability management and trading techniques, illustrating repo use across a wide range of applications in the global money markets. Rarely mentioned in the financial press because of the simple, straightforward nature of the instrument, repo was often the only funding source available to banks during the last quarter of 2008 and the first in 2009. This book, written by a trader, will draw new attention to this valuable and efficient funding and investment product.

For undergraduate courses in derivatives, options and futures, financial engineering, financial mathematics, and risk management. A reader-friendly book with an abundance of numerical and real-life examples. Based on Hull's Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets presents an accessible and student-friendly overview of the topic without the use of calculus. Packed with numerical examples and accounts of real-life situations, this text effectively guides students through the material while helping them prepare for the working world.

Although economic theory has increased our understanding of some economic problems, it has rendered others, including the problem of capital accumulation, growth, and development, more difficult to understand. Focusing on capitalist economic systems, this book develops a theoretical approach to the study of aggregate capital dynamics. The theory is developed within the Keynesian framework of aggregate thinking and builds on the work of such Cambridge economists as Robinson, Kaldor, and Pasinetti. The approach helps to resolve some theoretical difficulties within the Keynesian framework for studying aggregate investment behavior. Dompere also provides a criticism of the neoclassical investment theory and the general neoclassical theoretical framework for studying aggregate capital accumulation, investment, and growth. Reexamining some questions on investment that earlier theorists have tried to answer, this study develops some of the basic ideas of Keynes, Robinson, Kaldor, and Pasinetti into a general theoretical system that allows an optimal aggregate capital and investment to be determined for a given information set.

‘This is the authoritative work on private equity, giving the business manager a genuine insight into how this relatively new form of ownership works.’ Frank Neale, Phildrew Ventures

‘A truly revealing insight into the world of private equity, MBOs and MBIs… A really enjoyable read.’ Barrie Pearson, Livingstone Guarantee

‘An excellent insight into the changing world of venture capital and private equity.’ Charles Richardson, Director of Corporate Affairs, 3i

How should entrepreneurs and company managers seeking capital go about the task, and what can they expect if they are successful? What do private equity investors look for in the companies they back? What are the lessons from the successes and (equally important) the failures of the past? And should politicians and financial regulators be concerned about the huge investment funds now being assembled to invest in private equity in Europe? The answers to all of these question can be found in this book.

This book tells two stories: Irwin's personal story of his career at Commodities Corporation and the company's great success after its initial setbacks. For much of his twelve-year career at Commodities Corporation, the stories were interrelated.Irwin experienced the classic syndrome known as "The Peter Principle" where he rose to the point where the job became too complex to handle. Commodities Corporation went through a similar experience where it ran into trouble following its uncontrolled expansion. We get an insider view of what is needed to succeed as a futures trader and share in the personal experience of an up-and-down career.

Rental properties can be among the easiest and most profitable of investments, year after year. And contrary to popular opinion, the real estate rental business doesn't require inordinate amounts of money, time, stress, and legal expertise. Here, seasoned investors and landlords Greg Dayton and Gordon Weidle, who own millions of dollars in real estate, deliver their tried-and-true system for making real estate work for you.

Dayton and Weidle's complete, practical resource demystifies the entire process of renting-including buying, preparing, screening tenants, handling turnover, refinancing, selling units, and much more. Under their guidance, you will avoid common pitfalls and steer clear of the cost and worry of high vacancy rates, collection issues, and eviction problems.

Filled with candid stories and real-life tips and solutions, "Prosper through Real Estate" includes expanded sections on legal and accounting issues; real estate history, retirement trends, and life plan strategies; sample forms and convenient checklists; and even a glossary of real estate terms.

Whether you are a novice or experienced real estate investor, this book will give you all the tools and know-how you need to make your dream of financial independence, security, and prosperity a reality.

William Gann, a stocks and commodities trader with ample experience, shares advice to those new to trading on the stock market. As an early work of Gann's, the Truth of the Stock Tape advises the reader on how to anticipate and react to various movements in the stock market. The methodology Gann employed in his earlier career is more concerned with the psychology of the market. Gann begins by noting how traders with patience and nerve - backed up by sound evidence that a company is or imminently will perform well - tend to win out versus the impatient, nervous and flighty investors. Later in life, Gann became famous for supplementing his investment strategies with the use of astrology. He believed that the alignments of the planets influenced how investors behaved on a trading day, and created many courses to demonstrate the effectiveness of his strategy and predictive charts. Gann's charting strategy attracted a following which exists to this day, with computer software mimicking his methods.

This book discusses various aspects of blockchains in economic systems and investment strategies in crypto markets. It first addresses the topic from a conceptual and theoretical point of view, and then analyzes it from an assessment and investment angle. Further, it examines the opportunities and limitations of the taxation of crypto currency, as well as the political implications, such as regulation of speculation with crypto currencies. The book is intended for academicians and students in the fields of economics and finance.

A short guide to transforming your money mindset and attitudes, written for a younger generation that doesn’t have the lingo, headspace or experience talking through money matters.

Make Epic Money demystifies wealth creation and puts a stop to the pervasive trust we put in our pay checks to accrue enough to give us a good life. Multiple income streams, investments and passive income are the only route to gaining financial freedom and content creator and successful entrepreneur, Ankur Warikoo, shows readers the way. He unveils the money mistakes he’s made, so we can avoid them, and sets up a mindset shift for readers to take an active stance in wealth creation, in a way that makes sense for them and with bite-sized and accessible tips throughout.