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Outperforming the Market: Everyone's Guide to Higher-Profit, Lower-Risk Investing
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Professional (12 June, 1998)
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Big, institutional investors have long known that picking the right stocks and bonds can be less important to the health of their portfolios than finding the right mix of asset types--stocks large and small, bonds short-term and long. Asset allocation largely determines a portfolio's likely rate of return and level of risk. In Outperforming the Market, money manager John Merrill investigates the long-term historical performance of various asset classes to help individual investors discover the best ways to divvy up their money for market-beating returns with below-average risk.
Looking back, Merrill concludes that many popular investments have not been worth their risk, including long-term Treasury bonds and foreign stocks trading in local currencies. The best risk-adjusted returns have come from U.S. stocks large and small, 30-day Treasury bills, and 5-year Treasury bonds. Merrill shows how to use index and actively managed mutual funds to build portfolios apportioned among these assets according to various investor time horizons and levels of risk aversion.
Not the most exciting approach to investing, Merrill's method requires consistency and discipline, the ability to do nothing while a particular mix of assets underperforms, as any mix sometimes will. If the past is prologue, however, investors able to follow Merrill's advice will be able to buy their excitement elsewhere. --Barry Mitzman
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Excellent *****John Merril has done his homework.John Merril sets up three portfolios,each holding stocks bonds and cash.He takes the reader thru every bull and bear market from 1926 thru 1997. Many authors of investment books avoid the investment history of the 1930s and other prolonged bear markets but Merril wants the reader to realize the risk and the reward that comes whith investing.I would urge anyone who has a 401k plan or Ira to purchase this book. Mr.Merril may have some different views then others when it comes to indexing and foreign investing but explains his views honestly.This is a great book and I don`t know why since it`s published over a year ago that no one has reviewed it.This is a book that should be updated every year.
Over-the-Counter Derivative Products: A Guide to Legal Risk Management and Documentation
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Professional (04 September, 1998)
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A terrific book for all finance professionals!As Harvard B-Schools's Tufano notes in his Foreword, this really is an excellent book for business managers and finance professionals, and their lawyers. It explains what all derivatives have in common and helps you understand how and why they work -- when used properly, as the book and today's markets constantly remind us. The book should have lasting value because it relies on the stable functions of derivatives and of their regulation. And through its functional approach to fiduciary duties, disclosure issues, and exchange regulation, the book also throws a lot of light on derivatives' legal and regulatory systems. (I'm not a lawyer but I do manage my firm's regulatory compliance.) I have seen the book's building block approach used to simplify technical discussions of individual products. But I don't recall ever having seen it woven as it is here into a discussion of law and regulation that makes sense to business and legal audiences. Tufano says that to work together confidently, managers and lawyers need a heightened appreciation of each other's expertise and a common language. I agree that this book makes an an important contribution to both. The book should also be a useful to teachers and students in business and law schools. Definitely worth reading, a must for the library of any law firm and the desk of any senior manager or market professional.
Practical Financial Economics : A New Science
Published in Hardcover by Praeger Publishers (30 November, 2003)
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My opinionI find it very interesting, but then again, I'm the editor!
The Practitioner's Guide to Interest Rate Risk Management
Published in Hardcover by Graham & Trotman, Incorporated (January, 1992)
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One of the very best aroundBernard Manson's text is excellent. He writes clearly and really delivers on the practitioner's guide as well as on the theory. A professionals bookshelf should have copies of Hull and Manson to show that they are serious. I would welcome a second edition if at all possible.
Real Time Proven Commodity Spreads: The 20 Most Consistently Profitable Low-Risk Trades
Published in Hardcover by Windsor Books (01 October, 1985)
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If you want to trade futures, buy this bookI first balked at the high price of this book. It didn't matter that it was written by professional futures trader, George Angell. I bought it and studied the different spread trades that he dedicates a chapter each to. This book will be useful for years to come from taking these trades. The price is well worth it in just one or two contract spreads.
Risk and return in finance
Published in Unknown Binding by Ballinger Pub. Co. (1977)
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Risks: Reading Corporate Signals
Published in Hardcover by John Wiley & Sons (July, 1988)
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How to find out the truth about a Business's healthAre you the kind of investor that relies solely on an Annual Report to make your decisions? You better watch out. An Annual Report usually only provides a rosy picture which in the end is meant to highlight a CEO and his team's performance. The authors' underlying thesis is that neither the Profit & Loss Statement nor the Balance Sheet provide enough information to find out if a Business is healthy. In order to find out the truth, a Cash Flow analysis is a must, after all, Cash Flow is a Business's blood. The book provides examples on how to do it. The first chapters are easy to read, but the last ones require advanced Accounting knowledge.
Stock Market Rollercoaster: A story of risk, greed and temptation
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (14 August, 2001)
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More than fantasiesAlthough this book looks like one of those self-gratifying fantasies at first sight, it actually offers much much more than those watered-down stock market tales like "Wall Street" and "The Boiler Room". The reader is taken through the career of a City professional from his humble beginning to the near height of his life. The tales told about the inner workings of brokerage firms are gripping and sharp. The turn of events seems somewhat convenient, one cannot help but has the idea that the main point about writing this book is not about satisfying fantasies, but to reveal the true nature of the stock market and how it affects those who are dumb enough to play it blindly. This book reveals rare information that one will not find in any other self-help investment book. Read it wisely and carefully, but only after you have some fundamental understanding of the stock market. The insights you gain in reading this book will take you through a rollercoaster of ideas. In the end, you will find yourself coming to a conclusion that is much the same as you have suspected: Stock market is all about playing the game.
Thomson, Derivatives and Risk Management Directory, 001
Published in Hardcover by International Thomson Business Press (January, 1998)
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Thomson Does It Best!!!This is an exhaustive listing of every major world bank in the world, fax, CEO' numbers, balance sheets of major banks, expensive reference book in Library....Necessary for risk managers, to use at a glance, can detect who owns it all......
Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce
Published in Hardcover by MIT Press (18 April, 2000)
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People who complain about the weightlessness of "virtual" money haven't looked closely enough at "real" money. While it's true that the Internet has no equivalent of the Federal Reserve--yet--it's also true that every economy ever devised has relied on mutual trust. In Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce, Harvard public-policy researcher L. Jean Camp looks at the evolving Net economy as just another means of exchanging goods and services--an engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the assumptions and technology underlying networked business.
Camp briefs the reader on the basics of the Internet and money itself before launching into a deep consideration of their interactions. Since much of the essential infrastructure (money standards, privacy and security law, and fraud prevention, for example) is currently embryonic, much of what Camp has to say is prescriptive--though she is careful not to let her own values intrude far into her writing.
In discussing privacy, for example, she examines several scenarios advocated by different interest groups, from system designers to law enforcement, and shows how each would develop if followed through; since compromise is inevitable, she suggests the limits of the privacy we will likely find in the future.
The final chapter, "The Coming Collapse in Internet Commerce," warns that any money system is inherently fragile and that we must expect catastrophic failure, perhaps more than once, before we iron out the more obvious wrinkles in the new economy. After that, it all depends on trust. --Rob Lightner
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Great book!As both the manager of a small business and a frequent on-line purchaser, I found this book really helpful in understanding the technologies behind the websites I use --- and what they mean for risk in my transactions.