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Financial Advice and Investment Decisions : a Manifesto for Change.
A practical guide to adapting financial advice and investing to a post crisis world There's no room for ""business as usual"" in today's investment management environment. Following the recent financial crisis, both retail and institutional investors are searching for n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2013.
©2013 |
| Colección: | Frank J. Fabozzi series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; CHAPTER 1 Why Do We Need Better Financial Advice?; The Individual; Organizational Influences; The Rest of the Story; CHAPTER 2 The Evidence Is Compelling; Financial Planning; Your Most Important Investment Decision; Option Payoffs are Not Simple; After-Tax Payoffs are Not Simple; Our Primitive Brains and Monkey See, Monkey Do; Others' Agendas and the Perils of the Ivory Tower; CHAPTER 3 The Extended Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Planning; The Simplest Model.
- The Stochastic Dynamic Programming AlternativeThe Mental Accounting Alternative; The Extended Balance Sheet; A Financial Planning System; CHAPTER 4 Properties of Mostly Efficient Markets; Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior; Why Security Returns are Difficult to Predict; Markets Bubble and Crash; Investment Implications of Market Characteristics; CHAPTER 5 Growing Discretionary Wealth; The Discretionary Wealth Approach; Elements of the Approach; Appropriate Markowitz Risk Aversion; CHAPTER 6 Coping with Uncertain Knowledge; Interpretation of Probability; Bayesian Probability Fundamentals.
- Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification.
- Higher MomentsImplementation; CHAPTER 10 Active vs. Passive Strategies; Pricing Efficiency and the Active-Passive Debate; CHAPTER 11 Performance Measurement; Relating Measurement to Purpose; Spending Control; Measurement for Individual Passive Investing; Performance Reporting for Active Investors; Delegating Your Investments Based on Measurements; Measuring vs. Evaluating Performance; CHAPTER 12 Organizational Investing; Representative Investing Organizations; Delegating Superior Investing Results; Motivating Organizational Benefits; CHAPTER 13 Financial Advice and Society.
- Social Ideals and Financial Problem SymptomsRedesigning Society with Better Financial Advice; And in Conclusion ... ; APPENDIX A Traditional Asset Classes and Alternative Assets; Asset Class Defined; Common Stock Asset Classes; Real Estate; Alternative Assets; APPENDIX B Bond Features, Yield Measures, and Risks; Features of Bonds; Yield Measures and their Limitations; Call and Prepayment Risk; Credit Risk; APPENDIX C Probability Distributions Commonly Used in Investment Management; Normal Distribution; Student's t-Distribution; Stable Distributions and Stable Paretian Distributions.