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When Prime Brokers Fail: The Unheeded Risk to Hedge Funds, Banks, and the Financial Industry

J. S. Aikman, "When Prime Brokers Fail: The Unheeded Risk to Hedge Funds, Banks, and the Financial Industry"
Bloomberg Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1576603555, 047087905X | 290 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB

An informative primer on the new landscape of leading prime brokers

Before the recent financial crisis, both regulators and market participants disregarded the complex and dangerous nature of the relationship between prime brokers (the banks) and their clients (the funds). In When Prime Brokers Fail, J. S. Aikman examines the convoluted structure of this relationship, the main participants, and the impact of the near collapse of prime brokerages on the financial world.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, When Prime Brokers Fail takes a close look at the unheeded risks of prime finance and lays out the steps required for managers to protect their funds and bankers to protect their brokerages.

* Examines the challenges, trends, and risks within the prime brokerage space
* Discusses the structural adjustments firms will need to make to avoid similar disasters
* Analyzes the complex relationship between hedge funds and their brokerages and the risks that multiply in extraordinary markets
* Covers new ways to manage an inherently risky business and the regulations that may soon be introduced into this arena

Engaging and informative, this timely book details the intricacies and interdependencies of prime brokerages and the role that these operations play in our increasingly dynamic financial system.

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Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software: The TraderEx Course

Robert A. Schwartz, Gregory M. Sipress, Bruce W. Weber, "Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software: The TraderEx Course "
Wiley | 2010 | ISBN: 0470464852, 0470642475 | 260 pages | PDF | 6 MB

An interactive guide to successfully trading in today's markets

Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation is a guidebook to interactive computer trading simulation designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in making tactical decisions and implementing them in different market environments-from continuous order drive markets to call auction markets, and from dealer markets to dark liquidity pools.

By showing traders how to operate in these different markets, this reliable resource quickly reveals a good deal about what trading involves and how market design impacts trading decisions.

* Provides a virtual platform that gives users hands-on experience in making tactical trading decisions
* Shows exactly how prices are established in the marketplace
* Teaches how the structure of a marketplace influences participant decisions

Learning to trade through study is like learning about a roller coaster ride verbally. You may get the idea of going up and down and around curves, but will lack the actual experience. Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation will get you as close as possible to the markets-without actually going in them-and prepare you to profit once you're really there.

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Plunkett's Chemicals, Coatings & Plastics Industry Almanac

Jack W. Plunkett, "Plunkett's Chemicals, Coatings & Plastics Industry Almanac: Chemicals, Coatings & Plastics Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies"
Plunkett Research | 2010 | ISBN: 1593921764, 1593925190 | 556 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB

The chemicals manufacturing industry is a vibrant, global business that encompasses many important sectors: from commodity chemicals, to specialty chemicals to custom manufacturing. Key topics include global trade, finance and acquisitions, biochemicals, nanochemicals, polymers, petrochemicals, fertilizers, plastics, coatings, ceramics, solvents, additives, dyes and many other products basic to home and business needs. In addition, the pharmaceuticals industry is included when discussing chemicals. Plunkett's Chemicals, Plastics & Coatings Industry Almanac provides a market research tool for competitive intelligence, strategic planning, business analysis and employment searches. Our coverage includes business trends analysis and industry statistics. The almanac also contains a chemicals, plastics and coatings business glossary and a listing of industry contacts, such as industry associations and government agencies. Next, we profile hundreds of leading companies. Our 400 company profiles include complete business descriptions and up to 27 executives by name and title. This companies database includes petrochemicals firms, major drug makers and specialy chemicals firms, public and private, on a global basis. Purchasers will find a form in the book enabling them to register for 1-year, 1-seat online access to tools at Plunkett Research Online, including the ability to view the market research/industry trends section and industry statistics. You have access, at no additional charge, to the very latest data posted to Plunkett Research Online. Online tools enable you to search and view selected companies, and then export selected company contact data, including executive names. You'll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market research report in one superb, value-priced package.

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Plunkett's Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID & Cellular Industry Almanac: Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID & Cellular Industry Market Research

Jack W. Plunkett, "Plunkett's Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID & Cellular Industry Almanac: Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID & Cellular Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies"
Plunkett Research | 2010 | ISBN: 1593921756, 1593925182 | 487 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB

Rapid development of new technologies is leading to ever more versatile, multipurpose mobile devices, including 3G and 4G Internet-enabled cell phones. Wireless networking and wireless Internet access are developing and expanding on a global basis at a rapid rate. Meanwhile, RFID (radio frequency identification) will revolutionize wireless tracking, inventory and logistics, from manufacturing to shipping to retailing. We analyze mobile advertising, mobile banking, WiMax, LTE and other wireless standards. Mobile entertainment is covered, including TV and other programming adapted for the cell screen. And, we cover wireless markets in India, China and Africa, competition between handset manufacturers, as well as the iPhone and other smartphones. Our coverage includes business trends analysis and industry statistics. We also include a wireless and cellular business glossary and a listing of industry contacts, such as industry associations and government agencies. Next, we profile hundreds of leading companies. Our 330 company profiles include complete business descriptions and up to 27 executives by name and title. Purchasers will find a form in the book enabling them to register for 1-year, 1-seat online access to tools at Plunkett Research Online, including the ability to view the market research/industry trends section and industry statistics. You have access, at no additional charge, to the very latest data posted to Plunkett Research Online. Online tools enable you to search and view selected companies, and then export selected company contact data, including executive names. You'll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market research report in one superb, value-priced package.

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Break Free with DB2 9.7: A tour of Cost-Slashing New Features

Break Free with DB2 9.7: A tour of Cost-Slashing New Features
Paul Zikopoulos | 2010 | ISBN: 0071703012 | 160 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

We have come a long way. As one of the bright-eyed engineers who had the good fortune of working on DB2 V1—we called it DB2/6000 at the time—I’ve seen some great releases ship. DB2 9.7 is one of the bestever.
DB2 9.7 is the most significant release we’ve shipped in more than a decade.We have focused our efforts on providing value for our customers. We have included some great features, but it all boils down to some pretty basic concepts: lower the cost of using the database, make it simple to use so that we can automate everything, and maintain the industrialstrengths that DB2 is known for: auditability, high availability, and security.

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Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content

Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
Berrett-Koehler Publishers | 2010-08-09 | ISBN: 1605095257 1605096512 | 192 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That’s because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts, so we sound smart and in control, and so that we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How to get unstuck?

For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he’s used for years to solve all types of business problems, and generate ideas for books, articles and blog posts.

Freewriting is deceptively simple: Start writing as fast as you can, for as long as you can, about a subject you care deeply about, while ignoring the standard rules of grammar and spelling. Your internal editor won’t be able to keep up with your output, and will be temporarily shunted into the background. You’ll now be able to think more honestly and resourcefully than before, and will generate breakthrough ideas and solutions that you couldn’t have created any other way.

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Nancy Folbre - Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

Nancy Folbre - Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family
Publisher: Harvard University Press | 2008-01-31 | ISBN: 0674026322 | PDF | 248 pages | 5.72 MB

Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets--primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and "investments" in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy.
Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves.
Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.
She also emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle and describes the need to rethink the very structure and logic of the welfare state. A new institutional structure could promote more cooperative, sustainable, and efficient commitments to the next generation.

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Post-Public Employment: Good Practices for Preventing Conflict of Interest

Post-Public Employment: Good Practices for Preventing Conflict of Interest
OECD | 23 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9264056696 | 107 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The principles presented in this volume serve as a point of reference for policy makers and managers to review and modernise post-public employment policies. It is part of the pathfinding efforts of the OECD to promote public sector integrity for cleaner, fairer and stronger economies.

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Business Modeling: A Practical Guide to Realizing Business Value

David M. Bridgeland, Ron Zahavi, "Business Modeling: A Practical Guide to Realizing Business Value"
MK | 2008 | ISBN: 0123741513 | 464 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

As business modeling becomes mainstream, every year more and more companies and government agencies are creating models of their businesses. But creating good business models is not a simple endeavor. Business modeling requires new skills.

Written by two business modeling experts, this book shows you how to make your business modeling efforts successful. It provides in-depth coverage of each of the four distinct business modeling disciplines, helping you master them all and understand how to effectively combine them. It also details best practices for working with subject matter experts. And it shows how to develop models, and then analyze, simulate, and deploy them. This is essential, authoritative information that will put you miles ahead of everyone who continues to approach business modeling haphazardly.

* Provides in-depth coverage of the four business modeling disciplines: process modeling, motivation modeling, organization modeling, and rules modeling.
* Offers guidance on how to work effectively with subject matter experts and how to run business modeling workshops.
* Details today's best practices for building effective business models, and describes common mistakes that should be avoided.
* Describes standards for each business modeling discipline.
* Explains how to analyze, simulate, and deploy business models.
* Includes examples both from the authors' work with clients and from a single running example that spans the book.

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Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers: Sweden Will the Recent Reforms Make It?

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers: Sweden Will the Recent Reforms Make It?
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
OECD | 18 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9264090606 | 51 pages | PDF | 1 MB

This report is an assessment of the Swedish reforms, which aim to lower inactivity and increase participation, against the background of recent trends and policy responses in other OECD countries. It looks at what Sweden is currently doing and what more it could do to transform its sickness and disability schemes from passive benefits to active support systems that promote work.

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Trade and Economic: Effects of Responses to the Economic Crisis

Trade and Economic: Effects of Responses to the Economic Crisis
OECD Trade Policy Studies
OECD | 26 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9264088436, 9264088443 | 130 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The analyses presented here suggest that exit strategies from measures to deal with the crisis will be most effective in boosting growth and jobs if they first roll back measures that discriminate between domestic and foreign firms and those that target specific sectors. General demand stimulus measures and active labour market policies are preferable under current conditions.

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OECD Principles of Occupational Pension Regulation: Methodology for Assessment and Implementation

OECD Principles of Occupational Pension Regulation: Methodology for Assessment and Implementation
OECD | 18 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9264086357, 9264087095 | 127 pages | PDF | 2 MB

The Methodology provides a structured approach for evaluating a jurisdiction’s occupational pension regulatory system in relation to the OECD Core Principles of Occupational Pension Regulation.
The ultimate goal of the Core Principles is to promote the sound operation of private pension plans, pension funds, and pension entities.

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Corporate Reputation and the News Media

Craig E. Carroll, "Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets"
Routledge | 2010 | ISBN: 0415871522, 0415871530, 0203868587 | 480 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB

This volume examines agenda-setting theory as it applies to the news media’s influence on corporate reputation. It presents interdisciplinary, international, and empirical investigations examining the relationship between corporate reputation and the news media throughout the world. Providing coverage of more than 25 countries, contributors write about their local media and business communities, representing developed, emerging, and frontier markets – including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Greece, Japan, Nigeria, Spain, and Turkey, among others. The chapters present primary and secondary research on various geo-political issues, the nature of the news media, the practice of public relations, and the role of public relations agencies in each of the various countries.

Each chapter is structured to consider two to three hypotheses in the country under discussion, including:

the impact of media visibility on organizational prominence, top-of-mind awareness and brand-name recognition;

the impact of media favorability on the public’s organizational images of these firms; and in some cases,

how media coverage of specific public issues and news topics relates to the associations people form of specific firms.

Contributors contextualize their findings in light of the geopolitical environment of their home countries, the nature of their media systems, and the relationship between business and the news media within their countries’ borders.

Incorporating scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, including advertising, strategic management, business, political communication, and sociology, this volume has much to offer scholars and students examining business and the news media.

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Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital: Condensed Version 2010

Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital: Condensed Version 2010
OECD | 17 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9264089488 | 470 pages | PDF | 3 MB

This version contains the full text of the Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital as it read on 22 July 2010, but without the historical notes, the detailed list of conventions between OECD member countries and the background reports are included

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The Complete Guide to Investing in Property, 5 Edition

Liz Hodgkinson, "The Complete Guide to Investing in Property, 5 Edition"
Kogan Page Ltd | 2010 | ISBN: 0749456248, 0749459220 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB

Despite the current volatility in housing markets around the world, property ownership continues to be seen as safer and more reliable than many other types of investment. However, property investment remains a complex business - for example, What type of investment is best for a portfolio? Has every single expense been accounted for in renovating that 'bargain' property? What exactly are the implications of the credit crunch and the sub-prime market for the average property investor? "The Complete Guide to Investing in Property" looks at all aspects of generating money from property - whether that be by renting out spare rooms to lodgers, property development, buying land, holiday rentals or becoming a landlord. Fully updated for this fourth edition, it takes a fresh look at investing in the social housing market and using property as part of a pension plan, as well as providing commentary on the latest legislative developments governing landlords and tenants.

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202 Ways to Supplement Your Retirement Income

202 Ways to Supplement Your Retirement Income by James Stephenson
Entrepreneur Press | 2005 | ISBN: 1932531661 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 1.40 Mb

The New Encyclopedias for Supplemental Income

Filled with 202 proven money-making opportunities, each book in this popular series outlines a multitude of ways you can supplement your income.

The current trend of active retirement is growing. This book shows you what you can do in retirement to make extra cash. Plus, it includes the essentials on getting started, with valuable tips in all areas of business and an extensive resource list.

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IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2009

IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2009
International Traffic Safety Data & Analysis Group. International Transport Forum
OECD/ITF | 16 Aug 2010 | ISBN: 9282102824 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB

This first IRTAD annual report comprises a synthesis of the main trends in traffic deaths and crashes in 2008 and presents the IRTAD Group and its activities. It includes detailed reports from 28 countries, focusing on the latest data for the year 2008 and preliminary data for 2009, with analysis of safety trends and national strategies, including casualty targets and performance towards meeting those targets.

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The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground Running

Don Grimme, Sheryl Grimme, "The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground Running"
AMACOM | 2008 | ISBN: 0814413064 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 11,2 MB

Novice managers have their work cut out for them: all new skills to learn, different personalities to deal with, and greater responsibilities to fulfill. The New Manager’s Tool Kit provides a fresh, friendly approach for those charged with the task of supervision. The book encourages readers to take on the challenges of management and provides them with fast, powerful lessons to help them:

increase productivity • unlock hidden talent • work with different types of people • communicate effectively • diagnose problems • coach good or problematic employees • turn on teamwork • avoid burnout • eliminate conflict • nurture the next generation of managers

Ranging from basic skills to those more advanced, this book gives fledgling managers the help they need to succeed with flying colors, right from the start.

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