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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Simple, lazy portfolios from PortfolioReview -- Appendix: The Essential 25 -- FTSE 100 - UK Equities -- Featured ETFs -- Featured unit trusts -- FTSE All Share -- FTSE 250 - UK Mid Caps -- FTSE All Stocks Gilt -- FTSE Small Cap -- FTSE World exc UK -- DJ EuroStoxx 50 - European Shares -- Money Market Funds -- MSCI Emerging Markets -- Japan - TOPIX, MSCI Japan and Nikkei 225 -- DJ-UBS Agriculture -- FTSE UK Dividend Plus -- Comments -- S&P Global Water -- Global Property - FTSE NAREIT Developed Markets (Global) Property Index Series -- China - HSCEI and MSCI -- Infrastructure - S&P Global Infrastructure Index -- MSCI Latin America -- MSCI World Islamic Index -- S&P Global Forestry and Timber -- S&P Global Clean Energy -- S&P 500 -- S&P Select Frontier Markets -- Brent Oil -- Gold -- iBoxx Sterling Corporate Bonds -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…S&P 500 dog effect 16. Dogs of the FTSE All-Share index 17. Budgeting for profit 18. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intermarket Trading Strategies; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I; 1 Intermarket Analysis; 2 Correlation; 3 Regression; 4 International Indices and Commodities; 5 The S&P 500; 6 European Indices; 7 Gold; 8 Intraday Correlations; 9 Intermarket Indicators; PART II; 10 Trading System Design; 11 A Comparison of Fourteen Technical Systems for Trading Gold; 12 Trading the S&P 500 ETF and the e-mini; 13 Trading DAX Futures; 14 A Comparison of a Neural Network and a Conventional System for Trading FTSE Futures; 15 The Use of Intermarket Systems in Trading Stocks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- The Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages -- About the author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The sixth edition -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Identifying the players -- Investors -- Buying assets -- Comparing investments -- Using the financial pages -- Companies -- Presenting figures -- Rewarding shareholders -- Raising finance -- Contesting corporate control -- Financial institutions -- Managing money -- Financing industry -- Making markets -- Moving prices -- Governments -- Balancing the budget -- Controlling the money supply -- Forecasting the economy -- Regulating the markets -- Part 2 Interpreting the markets -- Stocks and shares: the UK equity markets -- The Financial Times share service -- Issuing new securities -- Launching companies -- Directors' deals -- Indices and aggregates: market indicators -- FT indices -- FTSE Actuaries Share indices -- NYSE and Nasdaq: the US equity markets -- US markets -- US indices -- European equities: stock markets in the eurozone and beyond -- European equities -- FTSEurofirst indices -- The changing world of European stock exchanges -- Other international equities: emerging stock markets and world indices -- World stock markets -- International equity indices -- The FTSE Global Equity index series -- International equity investing -- Trusts and funds: the managed money markets -- The managed funds service -- Investment companies -- Offshore and overseas -- US mutual funds -- Exchange-traded funds -- Bonds and gilts: the international capital markets -- Government bonds -- Corporate bonds -- Cash and currency: the foreign exchange and money markets -- The currency markets -- The money markets -- Futures and options: the derivatives markets -- The international markets for derivatives -- Options -- Financial futures -- Primary products: the commodities markets…”

“…Ritchie Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Learn et al and the School of Marketing, a leading education platform that has over 8 FTSE 100 and 250 clients and partners including; Unilever, Three, TSB, RBS, Direct Line Group, Global and Pearson. …”

“…At each stage the theory is developed by application to the FTSE 100 companies and their valuation and strategy. …”

“…In a step-by-step walk-through of their ground-breaking STAR® model (used by FTSE and Fortune 500 companies), they'll show how you can develop a new superpower that's been proven to work by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in a major academic study across sixty-two organisations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.2.1 Non-investable and Investable Indices 3.2.2 Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Indexes; 3.2.2.1 Liquid Alternative Betas; 3.2.3 Hedge Fund Research; 3.2.4 HedgeFund.net; 3.2.5 FTSE Hedge; 3.2.5.1 FTSE Hedge Momentum Index; 3.2.6 Greenwich Alternative Investments; 3.2.6.1 GAI Investable Indices; 3.2.7 Morningstar Alternative Investment Center; 3.2.7.1 MSCI Hedge Fund Classification Standard; 3.2.7.2 MSCI Investable Indices; 3.2.8 EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre (www.edhec-risk.com); 3.3 Database and Index Biases; 3.3.1 Survivorship Bias; 3.3.2 Instant History Bias…”

“…The size of the transfer market has continued to rise –- it increased seven-fold in value the last two decades, more than the FTSE share index. Between them, these wealthy investors have amassed hundreds of millions of euros in profits. …”

“…The principles in this book have been developed over the last decade as a result of the author’s work with individuals and organisations of all sizes (from micro to global FTSE top 100). By adopting some of these basic principles of email best practice, you will learn how to take control of your inbox to dramatically improve your productivity, your quality of life and never send an ineffective email ever again…”

“…Over twenty five years he delivered an exceptional annual return of 20% on his Special Situations Fund, compared with 7.7 % for the FTSE All-Share index. His strategy, which blends analysis of a company's books with quizzing the management and studying performance graphs, has an enviable track record. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bond Market -- BNY Mellon Core Bond ETF (BKAG) -- Vanguard Total Bond Market (BND) -- Vanguard Short-Term Bond (BSV) -- Chapter 15 Moving Beyond Basics into Municipal and Foreign Bonds -- Municipals for Mostly Tax-free Income -- Take a tour of 50 states -- Foreign Bonds for Fixed-Income Diversification -- Vanguard Total International Bond (BNDX) -- iShares International Treasury Bond ETF (IGOV) -- SPDR FTSE International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF (WIP) -- Invesco International Corporate Bond ETF (PICB) -- Emerging-Market Bonds: High Risk, High Return -- Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond (VWOB) -- SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets USD Bond ETF (EMHC) -- iShares J.P. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Overview of the Islamic Capital Market -- History of the ICM -- Geographic Spread -- Key Principles for Shari'ah-Compliant Financial Instruments -- Shari'ah-Compliant Instruments -- Shari'ah-Compliant Investors -- Shari'ah-Compliant Equity Indices -- Dow Jones Islamic Indices -- FTSE Shari'ah-Compliant Indices -- S&amp -- P Shari'ah-Compliant Indices -- MSCI Barra Islamic Indices -- STOXX Islamic Indices -- Other Islamic Indices Providers -- Shari'ah-Compliant Collective Investment Schemes -- Takaful (Islamic Insurance) Institutions -- Sukuk -- Sukuk in 2014 -- Sukuk in 2015 -- International Sukuk Issuance -- Ijarah -- Criticisms of Sukuk Issuance Practices -- Sukuk Indices -- Sukuk Trust Certificate Programmes -- Rule 144A and Regulation S -- International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM) -- Banks: Capital and Regulatory Issues -- The Definition of Capital -- The Capital Weights of Banking and Trading Book Assets -- Market Liquidity: The Outlook for Marketable Assets -- What is 'Liquidity' in Markets? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…15.2 Calibration Problems for Yield Curves -- 15.3 Reversion Speed and Volatility -- 15.4 Local Volatility -- 15.4.1 Dupire's Inversion Formula -- 15.4.2 Identifying Local Volatility -- 15.4.3 Results -- 15.5 Identifying Parameters in Volatility Models -- 15.5.1 Model Calibration for the FTSE-100 -- 16 Optimization Techniques -- 16.1 Model Calibration and Optimization -- 16.1.1 Gradient-Based Algorithms for Nonlinear Least Squares Problems -- 16.2 Heuristically Inspired Algorithms -- 16.2.1 Simulated Annealing -- 16.2.2 Differential Evolution -- 16.3 A Hybrid Algorithm for Heston Model Calibration -- 16.4 Portfolio Optimization -- 17 Risk Management -- 17.1 Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall -- 17.1.1 Parametric VaR -- 17.1.2 Historical VaR -- 17.1.3 Monte Carlo VaR -- 17.1.4 Individual and Contribution VaR -- 17.2 Principal Component Analysis -- 17.2.1 Principal Component Analysis for Non-scalar Risk Factors -- 17.2.2 Principal Components for Fast Valuation -- 17.3 Extreme Value Theory -- 18 Quantitative Finance on Parallel Architectures -- 18.1 A Short Introduction to Parallel Computing -- 18.2 Different Levels of Parallelization -- 18.3 GPU Programming -- 18.3.1 CUDA and OpenCL -- 18.3.2 Memory -- 18.4 Parallelization of Single Instrument Valuations using (Q)MC -- 18.5 Parallelization of Hybrid Calibration Algorithms -- 18.5.1 Implementation Details -- 18.5.2 Results -- 19 Building Large Software Systems for the Financial Industry -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Cause Related Marketing -- Caux Round Table Principles -- Centre for Corporate Governance (Nairobi) -- CERES -- CH2 Building, Melbourne -- Chapman Report (2006) (Australia) -- Cheating -- Chief Executive Officer -- Chief Sustainability Officer -- Christianity and CSR -- Christine Parker -- Civil Regulation -- Climate Change -- Clinton Global Initiative -- Club of Rome -- Co-determination -- Co-operation -- Co-ownership -- Coalation of Environmentally -- Responsible Economies -- Code of 'best practice' and norms of behavior -- Colin Scott -- Collaborative Advantage -- Collective bargaining/trade unions -- Combined Assurance -- Combined Code (June 2008) -- Command and Control -- Commonwealth Association of CG -- Communicating with Stakeholders -- Communities of Practice -- Community -- Community activism -- Community of practice -- Community outrage -- Community relations -- Company Directors and CSR -- Competition -- Competitive advantage -- Compliance/Legal Compliance -- Compliant Finance -- Comply-or-explain -- Comprehensive Environmental Responses , Compensation and Liability Act -- Confucian Ethics -- Consumer Driven Corporate Responsibility -- Consumerism Consumers' protection -- Core Principles of CSR Approaches Corporate -- Corporate Activism -- Corporate Citizenship -- Corporate codes of conduct -- Corporate giving -- Corporate Governance -- Corporate Governance as a Tool for Alleviating -- Developmental Issues -- Corporate Governance Reporting -- Corporate killing -- Corporate manslaughter -- Corporate Mission, Vision and Values -- Corporate moral agency -- Corporate negligence -- Corporate outrage -- Corporate Political Connection -- Corporate Reputation -- Corporate Responsibility Index -- Corporate Responsibiliy Maturity -- Corporate Secretaries -- Corporate Social Entrepreneurship -- Corporate Social innovation -- Corporate Social -- Irresponsibility -- Corporate Social Marketing -- Corporate Social Opportunity -- Corporate Social Performance -- Corporate Social Performance Measurement -- Corporate social responsibility -- Corporate Social Responsibility Report -- Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy -- Corporate social responsiveness (Carroll, Frederick and Ackerman) -- Corporate Strategy -- Corporate Sustainability -- Corporation as Psychopath -- Corporatism -- Corruption and National Development -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Cradle to cradle -- Cradle to grave -- Critical reflection in corporate management -- Critiques of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Cross-cultural attitudes to CSR -- CSR and Africa -- CSR and Catholic Social Teaching -- CSR and Corruption -- CSR and Poverty -- CSR and Spirituality -- CSR Butterfly effect -- CSR Communication -- CSR Continuum - core business to broader goals -- CSR Europe -- CSR Evolutionary Journey - CSR Journey, CSR Organisational Evolutions -- CSR Frameworks -- CSR Innovation -- CSR Lifecycle -- CSR Measurement -- CSR: Australian Standard AS8003 [world first] -- CSRwire -- Cultural differences in values/ethics and decision-making -- Culture and Organization Performance -- Cultures, businesses, and global CSR -- Customer value creation -- Dame Anita Roddick -- Data protection -- David Henderson -- Decent work -- Definitions of social responsibility -- Deming 14 points model -- Demographic change -- Design for Environment (sep entry Hannover Principles) -- Development -- Dialogue -- Director Competencies and Skills -- Director Interlocks -- Director Role Position Description -- Disability -- Disclosure (CSR reporting) -- Discrimination -- Distributive Justice -- Diversity -- Dividend -- Dow Jones Sustainability Index -- Downsizing -- Due Diligence -- Duties of employees (comlpy with contract, comply with law, respect employers property) -- E-Waste -- Earth Summitt (separate entry on Rio declaration and on Agenda 21) -- Earthscan (publisher) -- EC Non-Discrimination Law -- Eco-Efficiency -- Eco-innovation -- Ecolabel -- Ecological economics -- Ecological footprint -- Ecology (separate entries on human and industrial) -- Econology -- Economic Globalization -- Economic sociology -- Economic Sociology of the CSR Movement -- Ecopreneurship -- Ecosystem -- Ecotoxity -- Education -- Elkington, John -- Embedded CSR -- Emissions trading -- Employability -- Employee participation/'ownership -- Employee Surveillance -- Employee volunteer programmes -- Employers' Forum on Age -- Employers' Forum on Disability -- EMS -- Endemic -- Energy Biofuels -- Energy—renewable -- Energy-solar -- Engagement/Stakeholder Engagement -- Enlightened Self-Interest -- Enron -- Environmental Accounting -- Environmental Audit -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental governance -- Environmental impact assessment -- Environmental law -- Environmental Management System -- Environmental protection agencies (all countries) -- Environmental Report Verification -- Environmental sustainability index (World economic forum) -- Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Investment -- Environmental, Social and Governance Risk -- Environmentally Sensitive Accounting -- Equal Opportunity -- Equal Pay -- Equator Principles -- Ethic of responsibility to other stakeholders -- Ethical absolutism v. ethical relativism -- Ethical Corporation -- Ethical CSR -- Ethical Egoism & CSR -- Ethical problems in financial markets -- Ethical Theories -- Ethical Trading Initiative -- European Corporate Governance Institute -- European Multistakeholder Forum -- European Union Directive - The 8th Company Law Directive on Disclosure & Transparency -- European Urban Charter 1992 and 1998 -- Evolution of Corporate Governance Reports in the UK and Ireland -- Executive remuneration and CSR -- Externalities -- Externally Driven Business Case (EDBC) -- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) -- Exxon Mobil -- Exxon Valdez -- Factor 4 / Factor 10 -- Fair Pensions -- Fair Trade -- Fair wages -- Family Business and Corporate Social Responsibility -- Fiduciary duty -- Filial Piety & CSR -- Financial Regulations -- Financial Reporting Council (UK) -- Five Capitals Framework (Forum for the Future) -- Forest Stewardship Council -- Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (Prahalad) -- Franchising Fraud prevention, detection and auditing -- Free range/cage-free/crate free/ethically raised -- Freedom of conscience -- Freedom of speech -- Friedman, Milton -- FTSE4Good Index -- G20.-Gambling -- GE (General Electric) -- Gender Balance -- Gender-specific Contributions to Social Responsibility -- Gender/Gender Free -- Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) -- German Corporate Governance Code (6/6/2008) -- Giving voice to values -- Global 100 -- Global Competitiveness -- Global Corporate Governance Forum -- Global Director Development Circle -- Global Environmental Management Initiative -- Global Financial Crisis -- Global Financial Markets -- Global Governance and CSR -- Global Memorandum of Understanding -- Global Reporting Initiative -- Global Village -- Global Warming -- Globalization -- Globalization of Culture -- Globethics.net -- Glocal -- Good Corporation -- Government (role in regulation, etc) -- Grameen Bank -- Green Globe Certification -- Green jobs -- Green Workplace -- Greenbury Report (UK) -- Greenhouse gases -- Greenleaf (publisher) -- Greenpeace (NGO) -- Greenwashing -- Hampel Report (UK) and CSR -- Hannover Principles -- Health and drug testing (as part of right to privacy) -- Health and Safety -- Healthcare/benefits -- Higgs Report (UK) and CSR -- Hinduism and CSR -- Holistic Governance -- Home-based telecommuting/teleworking -- Hostile takeover -- Human ecology -- Human resource management -- Human rights -- Human Rights Compliance Assessment Tool -- Human rights, Non-Discrimination -- ICC Charter for Sustainable Development …”