Fisher investments on health care /
The Fisher Investments On series is designed to provide individual investors, students, and aspiring investment professionals the tools necessary to understand and analyze investment opportunities--primarily for investing in global stocks. Each guide is an easily accessible primer to economic sector...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons,
©2011.
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Colección: | Fisher Investments on series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Getting Started in Health Care
- Chapter 1: Health Care Basics
- Health Care Basics
- Health Care Characteristics
- Chapter 2: The US Health Care System
- Why Does It Cost So Much?
- Private Versus Public
- The Regulatory System
- US Health Care Reform
- Chapter 3: Brief Overview of Health Care Systems by Major Countries
- Japan
- Germany
- France
- United Kingdom
- China
- Chapter 4: Health Care Sector Drivers
- Defensive Nature of Health Care
- Innovation and Patent Expirations
- Political/Regulatory Developments
- Part II: Next Steps
- Chapter 5: Health Care Sector Breakdown
- Global Industry Classification Standard
- Global Health Care Benchmarks
- Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
- Health Care Equipment & Services Industry Group
- Health Care Providers & Services
- Health Care Facilities
- Health Care Services
- Managed Health Care
- Health Care Technology
- Chapter 6: Challenges in the Health Care Sector
- Slowing Growth in Mature Markets
- Legislation and Regulation
- Responding to Challenges
- Part III: Thinking Like a Portfolio Manager
- Chapter 7: The Top-Down Method
- Investing Is a Science
- The Top-Down Method
- Top-Down Deconstructed
- Managing Against a Health Care Benchmark
- Chapter 8: Security Analysis
- Make Your Selection
- A Five-Step Process
- Important Questions to Ask
- Chapter 9: Make Your Portfolio "Healthy"
- Strategy 1: Adding Value at the Industry and Sub-Industry Level
- Strategy 2: Adding Value at the Security Level
- Strategy 3: Adding Value in a Health Care Sector Downturn
- How to Implement Your Strategy
- Appendix: Reference Material
- Notes
- About the Authors
- Index.