Wealth Management 101

Wealth Management 101

Author: Nikhil Kamath

Publisher: IndraStra Papers

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Money. ‘Coined liberty’ as Dostoevsky put it. ‘Incarnate desire’ as James Buchanan put it. Also one of the most fundamental misunderstandings in basic economics. We spend our whole lives being managed by money. We spend a great deal talking about it, worrying about it, often struggling to collect enough to meet our immediate needs. If we are one of the lucky ones to have a lot of money, we use it to buy our dream car, dream house, or set out on that dream vacation. Money is also considered to be a ‘tool of power’. It can be used to fund a good cause or even a war. Some are willing to break laws, destroy families, wage battles, or even get married in exchange for it. Some go beyond their measure to empower themselves with individual creativity and drive good for others around them. Feed a hungry soul seeking food. Enlighten a hungry mind seeking knowledge. Is money good or bad? Or do we have it all wrong?


Management 101

Management 101

Author: Stephen Soundering

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-12-02

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1507200374

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A crash course in managing productive, successful, and happy employees! Effective employee management is imperative to a business' success, but all too often management books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. Management 101 cuts out the boring explanations of management policies, and instead provides hand-on lessons that keep you engaged as you learn how to manage productive, happy employees. From hiring and firing to delegating and coaching, this primer is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts that you won't be able to get anywhere else. So whether you're a business owner, a middle-manager with many direct reports, or an entry-level employee learning to supervise interns, Management 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.


Asset Management

Asset Management

Author: Telli Van der Lei

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9400727232

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In the past decades asset intensive companies have witnessed a number of regulatory changes and especially industry is facing ever increasing competitiveness. To overcome these challenges different asset management methods have been developed aimed to improve the asset life cycle. Especially the design phase and operation and maintenance phase have seen a rise in tools and methods. Smarter design can lead to improved operation. Likewise, improved operation and maintenance leads to lower replacement costs and may provide the basis for better design. This book brings together and coherently presents the current state of the art in asset management research and practice in Europe from a life cycle perspective. Each chapter focuses on specific parts of this life cycle and explains how the methods and techniques described are connected and how they improve the asset life cycle, thus treating this important subject from a unique perspective.


Physical Asset Management

Physical Asset Management

Author: Nicholas Anthony John Hastings

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1848827512

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Physical asset management is the management of fixed or non-current assets such as equipment and plant. Physical Asset Management presents a systematic approach to the management of these assets from concept to disposal. The general principles of physical asset management are discussed in a manner which makes them accessible to a wide audience, and covers all stages of the asset management process, including: initial business appraisal; identification of fixed asset needs; financial evaluation; logistic support analysis; life cycle costing; maintenance strategy; outsourcing; cost-benefit analysis; disposal; and renewal. Physical Asset Management addresses the needs of existing and potential asset managers, and provides an introduction to asset management for professionals in related disciplines, such as finance. The book provides both an introduction and a convenient reference work, covering all the main areas of physical asset management.


Investing 101

Investing 101

Author: Michele Cagan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1440595135

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"Contains material adapted from The everything investing book, 3rd edition"--Title page verso.


Asset Management: Tools And Issues

Asset Management: Tools And Issues

Author: Frank J Fabozzi

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-12-02

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9811225761

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Long gone are the times when investors could make decisions based on intuition. Modern asset management draws on a wide-range of fields beyond financial theory: economics, financial accounting, econometrics/statistics, management science, operations research (optimization and Monte Carlo simulation), and more recently, data science (Big Data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence). The challenge in writing an institutional asset management book is that when tools from these different fields are applied in an investment strategy or an analytical framework for valuing securities, it is assumed that the reader is familiar with the fundamentals of these fields. Attempting to explain strategies and analytical concepts while also providing a primer on the tools from other fields is not the most effective way of describing the asset management process. Moreover, while an increasing number of investment models have been proposed in the asset management literature, there are challenges and issues in implementing these models. This book provides a description of the tools used in asset management as well as a more in-depth explanation of specialized topics and issues covered in the companion book, Fundamentals of Institutional Asset Management. The topics covered include the asset management business and its challenges, the basics of financial accounting, securitization technology, analytical tools (financial econometrics, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization models, and machine learning), alternative risk measures for asset allocation, securities finance, implementing quantitative research, quantitative equity strategies, transaction costs, multifactor models applied to equity and bond portfolio management, and backtesting methodologies. This pedagogic approach exposes the reader to the set of interdisciplinary tools that modern asset managers require in order to extract profits from data and processes.


Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management

Author: Söhnke M. Bartram

Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 195292703X

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown in presence in asset management and has revolutionized the sector in many ways. It has improved portfolio management, trading, and risk management practices by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. In particular, AI techniques help construct portfolios based on more accurate risk and return forecasts and more complex constraints. Trading algorithms use AI to devise novel trading signals and execute trades with lower transaction costs. AI also improves risk modeling and forecasting by generating insights from new data sources. Finally, robo-advisors owe a large part of their success to AI techniques. Yet the use of AI can also create new risks and challenges, such as those resulting from model opacity, complexity, and reliance on data integrity.


Fundamentals Of Institutional Asset Management

Fundamentals Of Institutional Asset Management

Author: Frank J Fabozzi

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 981122160X

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This book provides the fundamentals of asset management. It takes a practical perspective in describing asset management. Besides the theoretical aspects of investment management, it provides in-depth insights into the actual implementation issues associated with investment strategies. The 19 chapters combine theory and practice based on the experience of the authors in the asset management industry. The book starts off with describing the key activities involved in asset management and the various forms of risk in managing a portfolio. There is then coverage of the different asset classes (common stock, bonds, and alternative assets), collective investment vehicles, financial derivatives, common stock analysis and valuation, bond analytics, equity beta strategies (including smart beta), equity alpha strategies (including quantitative/systematic strategies), bond indexing and active bond portfolio strategies, and multi-asset strategies. The methods of using financial derivatives (equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and credit derivatives) in managing the risks of a portfolio are clearly explained and illustrated.