Active index investing

maximizing portfolio performance and minimizing risk through global index strategies

For over three decades, indexing has become increasingly accepted by both institutional and individual investors. Index benchmarks and investment products that track them have been a driving force in the transformation of investment strategy from art to science. Yet investors# understanding of the sophistication of ...

Financial modeling using Excel and VBA

Provides information for creating financial models and shows how to use basic information in practice. This book offers a blend of theory and practice by discussing financial modelling, from statements and the time value of money problems, to the measuring and comparing of returns on ...

Trading chaos

maximize profits with proven technical techniques

CHAPTER 1: The Market Is What You Think It Is. CHAPTER 2: Chaos Theory. CHAPTER 3: Defining Your Underlying Structure#and How That Affects Winning and Losing. CHAPTER 4: Gearing Up for Trading. CHAPTER 5: What Type of Trader Are You? CHAPTER 6: Super-Natural Trade ...

Health economics

fundamentals and flow of funds

A primer for the field, written by the Executive Director of the International Health Economics Association. This book offers a readable and rigorous conceptual framework for studying incentives, organizations and profits in medical care. Updated with new material on the calculation of payment rates (RBRVS ...

Operations, stretegy, and technology

pursuing the competitive edge

Hayes is a founder of the Operations Strategy field, and all four authors are on the Harvard Business School faculty. In Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge--the long- awaited follow-up to the highly successful classic, Restoring Our Competitive Edge--Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, Dave ...

Instructional engineering in networked environments

ÍNDICE:List of Figures and Tables. Foreword (M. David Merrill). Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: The E-Learning Challenge. The Knowledge Society. Knowledge Management. Pedagogy and Technology. Network-Based Learning Models. Processes and Development Tools. Platforms and Portals. Summary. Chapter 2: Virtual Learning Centers. The Concept of a ...

Creating a reusable learning objects strategy

leveraging information and learning in a knowledge economy

Step-by-step, Creating a Reusable Learning Objects Strategy shows how to create and implement a reusable learning objects (RLO) strategy that is flexible enough to accommodate your individual needs or use across a global organization. Creating a Reusable Learning Objects Strategy outlines the benefits and challenges ...

Alternative risk transfer

integrated risk management through insurance, reinsurance, and the capital markets

The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) market has expanded in recent years to become a vital source of risk solutions and risk capacity and an important mechanism for the creation of integrated corporate risk management programs. The ART market unites the risk management and product development ...

Systems modelling

theory and practice

Systems Modelling: Theory and Practice brings together some of the leading minds in the fields of Systems Modelling and Operational Research, to produce a book which addresses issues that are of both practical importance and theoretical significance. This union of the theory and practice of ...

Revolution in the mailbox

your guide to succesful direct mail fundraising

This updated edition of Mal Warwick's landmark book Revolution in the Mailbox has been thoroughly revised to provide your nonprofit organization with the most current and comprehensive survey of direct mail fundraising available anywhere. If you follow Warwick#s practical, down-to-earth advice, direct mail ...

Capital

the story of long-term investment excellence

ÍNDICE: Chapter 1. The Founding. Chapter 2. Staying Alive. Chapter 3. The Multiple-Counselor System. Chapter 4. Organizing the Core. Chapter 5. Mutual Fund Distribution. Chapter 6. Crossing the Rubicon: Capital Group. Chapter 7. Shareholder Services. Chapter 8. Acquisitions and Start-Ups. Chapter 9. Capital Guardian Trust ...

Value added risk management in finacial institutions

leveraging Basel II & risk adjusted performance measurement

The typical financial executive s view of the value of risk management in their financial institution is based on the belief that risk management focuses on loss avoidance. This view is based on the history of risk management being control focused. However, risk management has ...

The board member's playbook

using policy governance to solve problems, make decisions, and build a stronger board

The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through ...

Funding effectiveness

lessons in building nonprofit capacity

From Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)--a community of grantmakers dedicated to building strong organizations--comes a guide to promising practices in capacity building. Written for leaders of both grantmaking and nonprofit organizations who are dedicated to improving the sector's effectiveness, Funding Effectiveness offers a ...

Biotech industry

a global, economic, and financing overview

Provides a thorough look at the current state of the biotechnology industry, including where major research is being conducted, where it#s being applied, and where money and intellectual capital are flowing. Written by a renowned business columnist and an entrepreneurial scientist in the biotech ...

Mastering global corporate governance

Corporate Governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. Gone are the days when CEOs set agendas and earned 500 times more than average employees. Now, transparency rules. Corporations must establish new systems of accountability, and encourage long-term participation in decision-making by both shareholders ...

Visible thinking

unlocking causal mapping for practical business results

We live in a complex world. We are constantly challenged by issues that seem at first to be simple, but on reflection turn out to have complicated causes and consequences that can dramatically affect our lives. Often, getting a handle on what the issues are ...

Marketing research

with SPSS 11.0

Presents marketing research through the eyes of a manger using and purchasing research information, while maintaining solid, competitive coverage of quantitative methods. ÍNDICE 1. The Role of Marketing Research in Management Decision Making. 2. The Marketing Research Industry. 3. Problem Definition and the Research Process ...

A bank analyst's handbook

money,risk and conjuring tricks

It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is ...

Leading organizational learning

harnessing the power of knowledge

Leading Organizational Learning brings together today#s top thinkers in organizational learning#including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and ...