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Corporate Bonds: Structure and Analysis
Richard S. Wilson , and Frank J. Fabozzi Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1883249074 |
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Corporate Bonds: Structures & Analysis covers every aspect of corporate bonds, including bond structures, credit analysis, and investment strategies. This book discusses state-of-the-art technology for valuing corporate bonds, as well as innovative new products such as step-up notes and range notes. Complete with contributions from today's top financial experts, Corporate Bonds is the definitive reference for this vital market.Customer Reviews:
Excellent Guide to the Corporate Bond Market..........2000-06-20
One area that could be more detailed was the portfolio management section (Section 13). However the book was still very worth while.
I would especially recommend this book to those trying to get a good understanding of the corporate bond market in lieu of a textbook or larger scale fixed income guide.
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Diy Portfolio Management: Do It Yourself! With a Little Independent Work, You Too Can Beat the Returns of Indexes and Mutual Fund Managers
Lyle Wilkinson Manufacturer: Selact Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 097283950X |
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DIY Portfolio Management describes the advantages of doing your own portfolio management, and gives you suggestions for matching and for beating the market.Individuals who manage their own portfolios have less overhead and the financial incentive to get market beating performance. That is not enough, knowledge and confidence are also important. The individual Do-It-Yourselfer' needs a knowledge based plan for success, and the book DIY Portfolio Management can feed that plan.
The just released DIY Portfolio Management explores approaches to beating the market. Some ideas presented are refined, but this is not rocket science, and unlike brain surgery this is something you can do for yourself. DIY Portfolio Management stresses that successfully management of a stock portfolio requires strategy, discipline, and time to work. This is a book about managing your nest egg, where discipline and intellect are complementary ingredients. The individual Do-It-Yourselfer needs confidence in their plan for success, and the processes DIY Portfolio Management recommends facilitates building that confidence.
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For those who want to control their portfolio.......2007-03-23
Knowledge breeds power.......2004-02-12
Knowledge breeds power and this book will help empower the DIY investor; filled with strategies designed to help the reader develop creative investment principles in a disciplined, intelligent manner. The book is written in three parts: Background, Trend Regression Portfolio Strategy and Portfolio Management Issues. Topics covered include: Market Timing, Stock Picking, Trading History and Risk and Reward, just to name a few. Investors are shown how to access and use MS Excel portfolio tracking spreadsheets to produce a comprehensive portfolio workbook. Sample graphs, models and illustrations are explained in detail. Many references and quotes from Robert F. Drach's, High return Low Risk Investment as well as the Drach weekly newsletter are included throughout the book.
Author, Lyle Wilkinson is Canadian earning his BBA and MBA in Hawaii where he now lives. In 1999, he began researching a disciplined, mechanical system's approach to the stock market. The result of that research is DIY-Portfolio Management.
Considering taking your portfolio into your own hands? This book is an excellent learning tool and a practical, comprehensive guide for remodeling your financial future.
Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews
Great book for technically oriented stock analysis.......2004-01-09
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A Little Work: The Truth Behind Plastic Surgery's Park Avenue FaCade
Z. Paul Lorenc , and Trish Hall Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312315252 Release Date: 2005-10-20 |
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In the vein of Kitchen Confidential, a revealing look inside a world where the stakes are rising every day If walls could talk! Beyond TVs Extreme Makeover and The Swan, this no-holds-barred account of what goes on in the most private of plastic surgery practices gives the inside story in a way weve never heard before. Who are the serial surgery seekers? What really happens in a consultation? What is the difference between a tummy tuck and liposuction and who is more suited for which? What mistakes have doctors made and can they be corrected? Dr. Paul Lorenc not only supplies answers but analyzes what drives peoplewomen and men aliketo increasingly request his services. Dr. Lorenc describes: Why never to have plastic surgery on a Friday What post-surgical recovery really involves The truth about Botox and other injectibles Why expensive skin-care products dont work The myth of lunch hour procedures and quick recovery. Now at the top of his game, this well-established, dynamic surgeon is perfectly positioned to tell it all.Customer Reviews:
well written, great read!.......2005-08-10
Happy Consumer.......2005-06-10
good information.......2005-05-03
A Best Seller!!.......2004-12-03
a little dissapointing.......2004-11-13
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The Woman Behind the Mask: Trading Your Facade for Authentic Life
Jan Coleman Manufacturer: Kregel Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0825424054 |
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God is calling Christian women today to a supreme spiritual makeover. He wants to rid them of the debris, confusion, emotional burnout, distractions, and anything else that stands in His way. In this book, author Jan Coleman offers help for women who feel that they must be everything-but who also know that they must dig deep inside and reveal the genuine woman they are underneath.Customer Reviews:
Removing Our Masks.......2006-08-20
GET REAL!.......2006-04-05
A Compelling & Helpful Book.......2006-02-15
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Behind the Facade: London House Plans, 1660-1840
Neil Burton , and Peter Guillery Manufacturer: Spire ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1904965105 |
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An essential book for anyone interested in understanding London houses. Much has been written about Georgian London and its street architecture but far less about the arrangements for everyday life behind the street façades. Sir John Summerson's Georgian London of 1945 identified a standard type of house plan in the Metropolis but since then scholars have unearthed a much more diverse picture. This book, by two leading experts, has an informative introduction and uses specially drawn plans and accompanying photographs to chart the wide range of London's street architecture in the long Georgian period. The studies range from the small but respectable one-room houses of the East End (now almost all demolished as slums), to the more comfortable and familiar arrangements of the grander houses in the West End.
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Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America
Magali Sarfatti Larson Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0520201612 |
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America.Customer Reviews:
Inward-Looking.......2003-06-20
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San Francisco Experience, The: The Romantic Love Behind the Fabulous Facade of the Bay Area
Harold Gilliam Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 038550425X Release Date: 2001-07-10 |
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Behind Facades
Trewin Copplestone , and Paul Draper Manufacturer: Hazar Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 187437158X |
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Behind Facades/a Dramatic Cutaway Look into Five of the World's Architectural Treasures-Featuring Panoramic Foldouts: A Dramatic Cutaway Look into Five ... -- Featuring Spectacular Panoramic Foldouts
Trewin Copplestone Manufacturer: Macmillan General Reference ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0028604318 |
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Beautiful!.......2000-06-18
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Behind the Facade
Henry Roland Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicholson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0297811614 |
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Behind the Facade
Lou L. Paris Manufacturer: Writer's Showcase Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595268102 |
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Recent events in the high-tech sector have shown that being bigger in the professional consulting arena does not always mean you are better.Big budget PR programs can disguise questionable competency levels and without guidance, clients can suffer unnecessarily. Before engaging one, it is wise to know something about how consultants operate and then follow a prescribed selection process. Consultants, even the most prestigious large firms, are not omnipotent and all knowing. They share the market with larger and smaller competitors some of which are more or less capable, efficient, scrupulous and profitable.
Consultants are not omniscient. The wisest among them know knowledge and innovation has many sources, converges from all directions and does not flow solely from any single individual or from within the walls of any single organization. It follows then, that the consultant should not be relied upon as the sole source of enlightenment. To be of true value, he must constantly seek knowledge, absorb it like a sponge and employ it as beneficially as possible, with his best effort, for the interests of his client.
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Recent events in the high-tech sector have shown that being bigger in the professional consulting arena does not always mean you are better.Big budget PR programs can disguise questionable competency levels and without guidance, clients can suffer unnecessarily. Before engaging one, it is wise to know something about how consultants operate and then follow a prescribed selection process. Consultants, even the most prestigious large firms, are not omnipotent and all knowing. They share the market with larger and smaller competitors some of which are more or less capable, efficient, scrupulous and profitable.
Consultants are not omniscient. The wisest among them know knowledge and innovation has many sources, converges from all directions and does not flow solely from any single individual or from within the walls of any single organization. It follows then, that the consultant should not be relied upon as the sole source of enlightenment. To be of true value, he must constantly seek knowledge, absorb it like a sponge and employ it as beneficially as possible, with his best effort, for the interests of his client.
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Behind the Facade
Stephen Games Manufacturer: Universe Publishing (NY) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876636504 |
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The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here
Michael J. Graetz Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0393320022 |
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In the entire history of American taxes, only a handful of people have ever expressed a preference for paying them. Everyone else feels taxes should be paid by people other than him- or herself and an immediate circle of friends. Another point of near-universal agreement is that the tax code is far too complex, and that creating and enforcing it places the government in a crucial role in our day-to-day lives--a position that makes many taxpayers uncomfortable.In The U.S. Income Tax, Michael Graetz presents the essential issues of taxation in fascinating ways, telling the stories of the real people who changed things, and about the ways these changes have improved the system or (more often) simply made it more complicated. For example, in a chapter on the tax code's "marriage penalty" (married couples with similar incomes pay more in taxes than they would if each were single), he shows that it's mathematically impossible to please everyone. Either singles pay more, or married couples pay more, but there's no way under a progressive tax system to make it entirely equitable.
There's no such problem under a flat income tax, but Graetz isn't a big fan of it. Instead, he sides with those who believe we should substitute a consumption tax for part of our current income tax. (Those making over $75,000 would also pay some sort of income tax in the example he shows.) He argues forcefully that this system--which includes adjustments to Social Security--would be more fair to Americans, and substantially increase our national savings rate. It lets everyone in on the action of the dynamic American economy, and, most important to a lot of Americans, keeps government on the sidelines. --Lou Schuler
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How to make sense of the American tax mess (and the cures that are supposed to fix it), with a new afterword for the paperback edition (originally titled The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax). Dissatisfaction with the income tax has grown so high that attacks on it, and proposals to reform (or even abolish) it, now amount to an almost constant dull roar. How has it happened that ordinary Americans have come to regard the federal income tax as unfair and tax protesters as heroes? Trenchant and timely, this book locates the answers in both the substance of the Internal Revenue Code and the political process that created and feeds this monstrous law. Michael J. Graetz shows plainly how the income tax has become a political football; how government has allowed its complexities to grow with no thought of their impact on taxpayers; and, most of all, how PAC funds and special interests have affected Congress's will to reform the system. Graetz also looks closely at the various flat-tax and consumption-tax proposals and shows why they are not as fair or simple as their advocates claim. With colorful anecdotes to explain his argument, Graetz points the way to tax reforms that really are simple, sensible, and fair. The U.S. Income Tax is a book for everyone concerned with where our tax dollars go and what we get for them.Customer Reviews:
Good intorduction to U.S. tax policy.......2001-12-04
The problems with this book come in being way to verbose. It could have easily been shortened.
Overall a great book for anyone intersted in knowing more about tax policy!
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