Make the most of your assets, financial and otherwise: "Brings to investment what the periodic table brought to chemistry—clarity, order, and understanding." —Michael H. Shuman, author of Put Your Money Where Your Life IsIf you want to build a better life and a better world—and really be prepared for any possible future in these turbulent times—you need to become a resilient investor. This trailblazing guide will expand your ideas of inve...

Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient investing goes further. The authors redefine the very meaning of "assets" and "investing" and show how to design a strategy to give you, and the planet, the best possible chance of thriving. After all, we're in this together!

With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer-including socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology. It picks its way through the pockets of resistant thinking and emerges with paths to changing the world that rest less on rigid ideology imposed from above than on practical transformation from below.Richard Swift is former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of...

Ten Leading private investors share their secrets to maximum profitabilityIn The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, the pioneers of the industry share the investing and management wisdom they have gained by investing in and transforming their portfolio companies.Based on original interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories on the subjects that most matter to the high-level investor, such as selecting a...

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing countries remain impoverished. Food miles, mounting toxicity and the 'ecologica...

Build profits even in the worst of times with the methods of a Technical Analysis legend“Deemer on Technical Analysis will become an instant investment book classic.”—Douglas A. Kass, Seabreeze Partners Management, Inc.“Serving on the front lines of this investment discipline for the past 40 years with some of the most influential investors of our time, Deemer provides a front-row seat on some fascinating history, rich with ...

The high-yield debt market (junk bonds) is a major sector of the financial industry, with more than $600 billion traded annually, and interest in the market is on the riseFeatures the insights of Marty Fridson (Fridson Vision), Sam DeRosa (CSFB High-Yield), Peter Tufano (Harvard University), and Darrell Duffie (Stanford University), among othersIncludes models for analyzing probabilities of default and recovery

This book shows how to maximize the benefits to be gained from an acquisition, while reducing the risk of failure. It does so by discussing the strategies that are most successful for buyers, the steps and pitfalls in the acquisition process, how to gain government approval of an acquisition, and how to conduct a sufficiently detailed due diligence investigation. The book goes on to address those legal structures that are most beneficial from a tax perspective, how to develop a sensible pu...

A complete guide for professionals with advanced mathematical skills but little or no financial knowledge . . .You’re smart. Logical. Mathematically adept. One of those people who can make quick work of long, difficult equations. But when it comes to managing a financial portfolio and managing risk, you wonder if you’re missing out.Fixed Income Finance is the book for you. It’s the perfect introduction to the concepts, formulas, applications, and m...

Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding megatrends with the potential to reshape opportunities for growth. Three...

In a stock market environment dominated by professional investors, A Few Good Eggs in One Basket o?ers a plain-talk approach to pro?tability by selecting and managing an investment portfolio of common stocks for an individual.Author Richard L. Gunderson, who has been an investor for more than forty years, outlines an enduring framework that improves the odds for the individual investor to exceed the performance of the market over the long term by buying good companies at b...