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Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 by "Choice "
"Thomas and Pollio, authors of numerous publications, have
written a must-read book for nurses and other health care providers
who want to understand and engage in the human experiences of
patients. The authors provide wonderful insights for students,
researchers, and clinicians into the world of existential
phenomenology and share, through the use of this research
methodological approach, the personal stories of patients as they
lived their experiences. As thought-provoking as the research
examples are, the chapters explaining philosophy and methods of
existential phenomenology are essential reading for all nursing
students...Thomas and Pollio write clearly and simply without the
usual academic jargon, a welcome change for college students,
clinicians, and researchers alike. This book fills a void in the
nursing research literature and will be welcome to nursing
researchers, practitioners, and lower-division undergraduates
through graduate students."
"--CHOICE"
"This book fills not only a gap but a wide cavern....I can not
think of a better way for neophyte nurses to engage the human
experiences and perspectives of their patients, nor can I think of
a more relevant and comprehensive explanation of the philosophy and
methods of existential phenomenology for seasoned researchers,
scientists, and theoreticians."--Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, PhD, RN,
FAAN, UCLA School of Nursing
While addressing a wide readership, this book focuses
particularly on the nurse clinician and student, demonstrating how
a humanistic philosophy and research methodology has the potential
to illuminate the deeper meanings of health crises and universal
human experiences like pain and spiritual distress.
Through his prolific and highly regarded writing, Thomas Howard's
name is familiar to Protestants and Catholics alike, but many have
never heard the story of his conversion to Catholicism. With grace,
charm, and wit, Dr. Howard describes his journey from
Evangelicalism to Anglicanism, and finally, to the Church of Rome.
In a world saturated with fashionable unbelief, Howard's testimony
inspires and informs. Fr. Richard Neuhaus calls it "a marvelously
engaging remembrance."
The investment industry is on the cusp of a major shift, from
Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) to Behavioral Finance, with
Behavioral Portfolio Management (BMP) the next step in this
transition. BPM focuses on how to harness the price distortions
that are driven by emotional crowds and use this to create superior
portfolios. Once markets and investing are viewed through the lens
of behavior, and portfolios are constructed on this basis,
investable opportunities become readily apparent. Mastering your
emotions is critical to the process and the insights provided by
Tom Howard put investors on the path to achieving this. Forty years
of Behavioral Science research presents a clear picture of how
individuals make decisions; there are few signs of rationality.
Indeed, emotional investors sabotage their own efforts in building
long-horizon wealth. When this is combined with the misconception
that active management is unable to generate superior returns, the
typical emotional investor leaves hundreds of thousands, if not
millions, of dollars on the table during their investment
lifetimes.Howard moves on to show how industry practice, with its
use of the style grid, standard deviation, correlation, maximum
drawdown and the Sharpe ratio, has entrenched emotion within
investing. The result is that investors construct underperforming,
bubble-wrapped portfolios. So if an investor masters their own
emotions, they still must challenge the emotionally-based
conventional wisdom pervasive throughout the industry. Tom Howard
explains how to do this. Attention is then given to measureable and
persistent behavioral factors. These provide investors with a new
source of information that has the potential to transform how they
think about portfolio management and dramatically improve
performance. Behavioral factors can be used to select the best
stocks, the best active managers, and the best markets in which to
invest. Once the transition to behavioral finance is made, the
emotional measures of MPT will quickly be forgotten and replaced
with rational concepts that allow investors to successfully build
long-horizon wealth. If you take portfolio construction seriously,
it is essential that you make the next step forward towards
Behavioral Portfolio Management.
Emotional behavior and biases run throughout financial markets.
This is the diagnosis of behavioral fianance. But it is not enough
to know that investors make biased decisions. What do we do about
it? How do we move beyond diagnosis, to prescription? In this
groundbreaking new book, investing and behavioural finance experts
Thomas Howard and Jason A. Voss plug this void and show the new way
ahead for investment managers and advisors. Return of the Active
Manager provides a set of tools for investment professionals to
overcome and take advantage of behavioral biases. Across seven
compelling chapters, Return of the Active Manager details
actionable advice on topics such as behaviourally-enhanced
fundamental analysis, active equity fund evaluation and selection,
harnessing big data, and investment firm structure. You learn how
to exploit behavioural price distortions, how to recognise and
avoid behavioural biases (in both yourself and clients), how to
extract behavioral insights from the executives of prospective
investments, and how manager behaviour can be used to predict
future fund performance. An indispensable tool for research
analysts, portfolio managers, private wealth advisors and manager
search consultants, Return of the Active Manager rationalises the
financial markets and prescribes actionable strategies that build
on the lessons of behavioural finance.
An Old Best-Seller Refreshed for the 21st Century.Silas Marner, a
weaver, had been betrayed by his best friend and the woman Marner
loved. He sought refuge in a new community and turned his
affections from human beings to the accumulation of gold. Since he
was friendless in the new community, he became an object of
superstition and speculation -- until a orphaned infant was left at
his door. As we know today, the best rehabilitation can come from
having somebody to love, to care for. The circumstances of life
robbed Marner of his accumulated wealth and left him with only the
orphan as the object of his affections. The warm story that follows
tells a tale familiar to most parents, how having a child
transforms lives, focusing our concerns on the new life and away
from ourselves. This book has often been assigned reading in
literature classes, but students struggle with the original's
quaint language and difficult sentence structure. This version has
been adapted into modern English to make it much more accessible to
the modern reader. It is an old best-seller refreshed for a 21st
Century audience.
The aim of value investing is to identify stocks that are
undervalued and which can be expected to produce an above average
return in the future. And the message from the history of investing
is clear: if you successfully pursue a value investing strategy
over the long term, you will earn an above average return on your
portfolio. The goal of The New Value Investing is to help you
identify undervalued stocks and teach you how to build your own
successful value investing portfolio. Added to this, it is
important to understand that value investing is inextricably linked
with behavioral finance, and research advances in this area in
recent years strengthen the case for value investing. The author
explains how stock prices are determined by emotional crowds, how
this leads to mispriced stocks and opportunities for the value
investor, and how you can harness the insights of behavioral
finance to improve your value investing approach. As you work
through this book, the author shows how to follow the path from
analysis of the economy, to the industry, to company financial
statements, to creating a value range for a company's stock.In this
book, you will learn: how to remove emotion from your investment
process; the essential elements of portfolio construction; what a
value investor should observe in the wider economy and the market;
where to find investment ideas; how to read a company's financial
statements from a value investing perspective; dividend valuation,
earnings valuation and other valuation techniques; how to undertake
a full valuation analysis, with two complete worked examples of
stock valuation for real-life companies; and what professional
value investors at investment funds analyse and how they make their
decisions. Value investing is within everyone's reach, so why
doesn't everyone use it? The key is patience. The approach works
over the long term if you stick with it and the result could be
extra hundreds, thousands or millions in your portfolio at the end
of your investment horizon.
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