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A guide for financial planners, includes: business plan development, client management, certification, legal compliance, client communication, and marketing strategies.

Imagine this: you're offered two corporate bonds from similar issuers with identical credit ratings. Both bonds have 6 percent coupons and ten-year final maturities. The first is noncallable and priced at $98.00. The second is callable at par in seven years and priced at $97.50. Which bond is the better deal? Not the one most people would think... Top traders, investors, and analysts agree that one method, option-adjusted spread (OAS) analysis, is the most useful way to compare and value securities with options. Nearly every day the bond market figures out a new way to structure securities, most of which involve options. This book explains OAS analysis in plain English, presenting each step in the method clearly and concisely. Topics covered include: Why yield-based analysis breaks down for nonbullet bonds How to model put and call provisions as embedded options How to distinguish the intrinsic and time components of option value How to model interest-rate volatility, future interest rates, and future bond prices How to calculate option-free price and yield How to estimate the "fair value" of a bond How to calculate implied spot and forward rates Salespeople, traders, and investors will want to read this book and keep it on their desks.

Leaving children with a substantial amount of money can be a boon or a burden. High-net-worth parents need to give their children an education to navigate today's complex world. The question becomes how to raise children with a sense of reality and balance, imparting a strong work ethic, and making them good stewards of their wealth.Kids, Wealth, and Consequences enlightens high-net-worth parents about the unique issues they need to explore. The book addresses the "hard" financial issues, such as investing and estate planning, as well as the "soft" emotional issues relating to values, family, and communication. Morris and Pearl detail strategies and techniques to help parents raise children who appreciate and know how to manage the wealth they inherit.Richard Morris spent many years working for his family's multimillion dollar business, and learned firsthand the challenges of business ownership and family wealth.Jayne Pearl is an experienced journalist who writes about families, family businesses, and money.

Art and finance coalesce in the elite world of fine art collecting and investing. McAndrew and a highly qualified team of contributors explain the most difficult financial matters facing art investors.

This new book is an invaluable guidebook for companies trying to capitalize on the opportunities in both developed and emerging cross-border markets. Noted experts discuss critical topics corporate executives--and all those involved with their company's legal, accounting, and tax matters--need to know to successfully complete complex, global transactions.

The Best Guide to Differentiating Between Trading Ranges and Trend Exhaustion "Tom DeMark, the man whose work inspired this book, is a unique, interesting, and oft-times iconoclastic technical analyst. Simply put, he thinks about the markets differently from the way you or I do. So why should you read this book? Because, having read it, you will almost certainly think about the markets and technical analysis differently." --John Bollinger, CFA, CMT, www.BollingerBands.com "Jason Perl has taken the playbook from the market's John Wooden, Tom DeMark, and translated it engagingly in a format that traders of all levels will appreciate. As one who has used these indicators for more than twenty years, I too am appreciative of Jason's clarity." --Peter Borish, Chairman and CEO, Computer Trading Corporation "Jason Perl has created a trading primer that will help both the professional and the layman interpret the DeMark indicators, which I believe represent the most robust and powerful methods to track securities and establish timely investment positions. Think of DeMark Indicators as the Rosetta stone of market-timing technology." --John Burbank, Founder and CIO, Passport Capital "Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark indicators distinguishes his work from industry peers when it comes to market timing. This book demonstrates how traders can benefit from his insight, using the studies to identify the exhaustion of established trends or the onset of new ones. Whether you're fundamentally or technically inclined, Perl's DeMark Indicators is an invaluable trading resource." --Leon G. Cooperman, Chairman, Omega Advisors "Jason Perl is the trader's technician. DeMark indicators are a difficult subject matter, but Jason shows simply how the theory can be applied practically to markets. Whether you're day-trading or taking medium-term positions, using the applications can only be of increased value." --David Kyte, Founder, Kyte Group Limited The Bloomberg Market Essentials(TM) Technical Analysis Series is the fast-track resource that gives you the essentials on keytechnical analysis tools.

Family The COMPACT AMONG GENERATIONS It's an unfortunate but common pattern: A family achieves wealth and stability but can't sustain its success beyond the second generation. An enterprise fails, a dynasty is lost, and pain and suffering prevail. In Family: The Compact Among Generations, James Hughes presents the reasons and the remedies for this phenomenon. The book is a journey of discovery. Drawing on evidence from ancient history, political science, psychology, physics, organizational science, and a myriad of other disciplines and spiritual traditions, Hughes makes seemingly discordant pieces fit to form a whole that is both instructive and inspiring. Distilled through this seasoned observer of families, the wisdom and insights of some of the finest minds in history make sense in a new way--a way that can truly help families overcome their most formidable challenges. Bringing to bear decades of experience working with and studying families, he maps the mistakes that lead to decline and the approaches to family governance and personal development that can prevent it.

Spread tradingΓÇötrading complex, multiΓÇôleg structuresΓÇôΓÇôis the new frontier for the individual options trader. This book covers spread strategies, both of the limitedΓÇôrisk and unlimitedΓÇôrisk varieties, and how and when to use them. All eight of the multiΓÇôleg strategies are here: the coveredΓÇôwrite, verticals, collars and reverseΓÇôcollars, straddles and strangles, butterflies, calendar spreads, ratio spreads, and backspreads. Vocabulary, exercises and quizzes are included throughout the book to reinforce lessons. Saliba, Corona, and Johnson are the authors of Option Strategies for Directionless Markets.

> --SOHAIL JAFFER, Chairman Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) > --VERNON C. SUMNICHT, M.B.A., CFP, President Sumnicht & Associates and Sumnicht Hedge Fund Advisors, LLC THE WHAT, WHEN, AND WHY OF MARKET-NEUTRAL STRATEGIES CLEAR EXPLANATIONS OF SPECIFIC APPROACHES THE RISKS AND MERITS OF EIGHT STRATEGIES HOW TO BUILD A MARKET-NEUTRAL INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO ADVICE AND INSIGHT FROM THE FOREMOST PRACTITIONERS OF MARKET-NEUTRAL STRATEGIES

Hedge funds have rightly gained the attention of private and institutional investors in recent years, proving themselves as useful portfolio diversifiers and preservers of wealth while greatly dispelling their reputation as an "unsafe" investment. Yet investors attempting to navigate in the field of hedge funds face significant challenges: the large number of funds, the diversity of strategies used, the range of financial instruments traded, and the various formats for investing. Pooling multiple hedge funds together into one vehicle, the fund of funds provides a ready solution, combining professional management expertise with asset allocation. In this book--the first of its kind--industry expert Joseph Nicholas shows investors how these funds operate, the benefits and risks, and the criteria and due diligence to utilize when selecting funds. Nicholas provides an in-depth analysis of historical fund performance and offers unique insight into the industry and trends that may affect its evolution. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Hedge Fund of Funds Investing is an essential resource for serious investors.

Written by the award-winning reporter who broke the story, this expos is a look inside the sexual misconduct scandals that rocked Wall Street. This is a riveting human, legal, and business drama of men and women in the financial capital of the world. 25 photos.