June Finance books eNewsletter - new and forthcoming Wiley, Capstone & For Dummies titles
JUNE 2008 FINANCE NEWSLETTER
Welcome to Wiley’s June finance newsletter, containing details of new and forthcoming titles.
Highlights include…
• Kevin Morrison explores how the increasing value of commodities is impacting on consumers and investors in Living in a Material World
• One of the hottest new strategies to hit the market in a decade - Robert Arnott’s Fundamental Index
• Sell and Sell Short – moneymaking exit strategies from Dr Alexander Elder
• Chain of Blame: how Wall Street caused the mortgage and credit crisis
• FOX Business Network reporter Tracy Byrnes shows how to get beyond the noise to profit in the markets in Break Down Your Money
• Dow Theory for the 21st Century – how it contains the information that today's serious investor needs to achieve stock market success
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JULY HIGHLIGHTS
Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection by Kevin Morrison
At a time when the world is grappling with rising food and energy prices and climate change, Living in a Material World provides an insight into some of the contributing factors behind these challenges. It makes the link between raw materials and the consumer, and shows how they are relevant to everybody, everyday – now more so than at any time since the last oil shock nearly three decades ago. A unique insight into this ‘once in a generation’ boom, the book shows how the increasing value of commodities is impacting on consumers and investors, in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
Read an extract here: chapter
ISBN 978-0-470-51891-5 Hardback £16.99/€23
The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest by Robert D. Arnott, Jason C. Hsu & John M. West
Rob Arnott and his colleagues at the innovative investment firm Research Affiliates spent several years developing the Fundamental Index methodology – a straightforward concept that weights companies in an indexed portfolio by their current economic scale, rather than by the value of their shares outstanding. In just over three years, the idea has attracted over $20 billion of investment capital from some of the largest and most sophisticated institutional investors in the world. This book explores the nuances of this approach, its historical roots, and its many practical applications.
Read an extract here: chapter
ISBN 978-0-470-27784-3 Hardback £15.99/€20
Sell and Sell Short by Alexander Elder
Exiting positions in order to cut losses and maximise profits is an essential part of the trading process. Typically, traders put much more thought into entering the markets than they do on exiting them. As a result, they frequently make emotional decisions, which can result in bigger losses and smaller profits than if they had a disciplined exit strategy. In Sell and Sell Short, Dr. Alexander Elder—a professional trader, teacher of traders, and practicing psychiatrist—addresses this issue in detail and provides practical, moneymaking strategies that can be effectively implemented when exiting a trade.
Read an extract here: contents
ISBN 978-0-470-18167-6 Hardback £45/€56.70
Property Derivatives: Pricing, Hedging and Applications by Juerg Syz
Property derivatives have the potential to revolutionise real estate – the last major asset class without a liquid derivatives market. This book gives a practical introduction to them and their numerous applications, providing a comprehensive overview of the property derivatives market and indices, with in-depth coverage of pricing, hedging and risk management, which will deepen the reader’s understanding of the market’s mechanisms. Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of the property derivatives markets, this book is the definitive reference guide to a new and fast-growing market.
ISBN 978-0-470-99802-1 Hardback £45/€60.80
Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations by Harry Cendrowski, James P. Martin, Louis W. Petro & Adam A. Wadecki
Soaring from the depths of its all-time low in the late 1970s, private equity investment is now a staple of the world economy. Although once demeaned by outsiders, private equity has now earned its place in the investment community as an asset class that generates wealth for both investors and the employees of companies it reshapes. Written by an investment dream team of authors, this book skilfully describes the mechanisms by which private equity achieves these goals.
ISBN 978-0-470-17846-1 Hardback £47.50/€60
AUGUST HIGHLIGHTS
Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused The Mortgage and Credit Crisis by Paul Muolo & Mathew Padilla
Americans are losing their homes at a rate not seen since the Great Depression. Home prices continue to fall despite the predictions of the past few years that all was rosy on the housing front in America. The people responsible for the crisis are not just unregulated loan brokers and con artists but also investment bankers and home loan institutions. From 2000 to 2007, Wall Street executives from Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and others financed non bank mortgage lenders that sourced their mortgages to consumers through loan brokers. Wall Street then sold bonds backed by subprime mortgages to investors in Europe and Asia. But why was everyone surprised by the subprime crisis of 2007? This book explains the current crisis in detail, showing readers who’s responsible and what lies ahead.
ISBN 978-0-470-29277-8 Hardback £14.99/€18.70
Break Down Your Money: How to Get Beyond the Noise to Profit in the Markets by Tracy Byrnes
ETFs, DRIPs, index funds, the Federal Reserve: the language of Wall Street can often be overwhelming for the average person. If you're going to be a successful investor, you have to know exactly what is being said so you can ferret out the information you need to make smart decisions. In Break Down Your Money, FOX Business Network reporter Tracy Byrnes offers reliable advice for investors looking to "break down" today's Wall Street lingo and beat the stock market through simple strategies and easy-to-follow advice.
Read an extract here: contents
ISBN 978-0-470-22680-3 Hardback £13.99/€16.70
Dow Theory for the 21st Century: Technical Indicators for Improving Your Investment Results by Jack Schannep
The first stock index published by Charles Dow in 1884 was comprised of eleven stocks, nine of which were railroads. It was not until 1896 that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was born, with twelve "smokestack" companies. Dow saw the stock market and his ideas about how it moved—yet to be named by others as Dow's Theory—as an indicator of business activity. Today, over 100 years later, his theory is still relied upon by investors. In Dow Theory for the 21st Century, Jack Schannep expands upon this theory and brings it into the new millennium; providing the information that today's serious investor needs to achieve stock market success.
Read an extract here: chapter
ISBN 978-0-470-24059-5 Hardback £26.99/€33.30
The Handbook of Commodity Investing by Frank J. Fabozzi, Roland Fuss & Dieter G. Kaiser
This invaluable resource provides an overview of the basics and foundations of commodity investing, as well as recent theory and empirical evidence on the commodity markets. Written by leading practitioners and academics, The Handbook of Commodity Investing explains the complexities of commodity investments, their associated risks, and how investors can optimise their portfolios by including different types of commodity investments.
ISBN 978-0-470-11764-4 Hardback £60/€82.70
Modelling Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives by Dominic O'Kane
An up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the pricing and risk-management of credit derivatives, this book is both a detailed introduction to credit derivative modelling and a reference for those who are already practitioners.
ISBN 978-0-470-51928-8 Hardback £70/€94.50
FORTHCOMING: SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
I.O.U.S.A by Addison Wiggin
The Little Book that Saves Your Assets: What the Rich Do to Stay Wealthy in Up and Down Markets by David M. Darst
Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance by Annie Mills
…more on these next time.
Other finance titles coming in July & August:
Title |
Author(s) |
Mark Mobius | |
A Trader's Money Management System: How to Ensure Profit and Avoid the Risk of Ruin |
Bennett A. McDowell |
Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire – now in paperback |
Michael Masterson |
Michelle R. Clayman, Martin S. Fridson & George H. Troughton | |
Laurie S. Goodman, Thomas A. Zimmerman, Douglas J. Lucas, Frank J. Fabozzi & Shumin Li | |
Turning Losing Forex Trades into Winners: Proven Techniques to Reverse Your Losses |
Gerald E. Greene |
Pascal Willain | |
Pran Tiku | |
Michael Harris | |
Sylvan G. Feldstein & Frank J. Fabozzi |
