The definitive guide to reduced-risk investing in the $450 billion convertible securities market From Advent Capital Management-one of the world's top experts on convertible securities-Convertible Securities describes the mechanics and behavior of convertible securities in comprehensive yet easy-to-understand language. Written for discerning investors as well as corporate CFOs and Treasurers seeking quantitative insights and theories presented in a methodical and understandable format using recent and relevant examples. The book explains the mathematical underpinnings of convertible securities and provides thorough analyses of convertibles from every angle-including those of various types of investors and issuers and numerous related disciplines (tax, performance analysis, accounting, risk management, etc.). Specific topics include: *Unique and Valuable Features in Convertible Bonds and Preferreds *How Savvy Investors Use Convertibles in their Portfolios *How CFOs Optimize Corporate Capital Structures with Convertibles *Valuation & Quantitative Properties of Convertibles *Investment Behavior *Asset Allocation Models *Convertible Bonds for Related Professions *Practical Considerations for Allocators-and much more!

This graduate-level text covers modeling, programming and analysis of simulation experiments and provides a rigorous treatment of the foundations of simulation and why it works. It introduces object-oriented programming for simulation, covers both the probabilistic and statistical basis for simulation in a rigorous but accessible manner (providing all necessary background material); and provides a modern treatment of experiment design and analysis that goes beyond classical statistics. The book emphasizes essential foundations throughout, rather than providing a compendium of algorithms and theorems and prepares the reader to use simulation in research as well as practice.

The book is a rigorous, but concise treatment, emphasizing lasting principles but also providing specific training in modeling, programming and analysis. In addition to teaching readers how to do simulation, it also prepares them to use simulation in their research; no other book does this. An online solutions manual for end of chapter exercises is also be provided. "

War On Xmas - The Field Official Manual is a 'phony' manual purportedly followed by secularists and liberals to wage a 'war' on the Christmas holiday. Right Wing commentators and slicked-back evangelical ministers, who contrived the phony war, have pledged to 'fight back' by exposing the warriors. We're helping them by publishing, for the first time, the actual field manual used by those warriors to attack Xmas via the use of phrases such as "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings." Illustrated with crude drawings and even cruder sophomoric humor, War On Xmas - The Field Manual embodies the right wing's paranoid fantasies and 'straw man' arguments.