| The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle | Price: GBP 21.99
by: Michael Panzner
 | The stock market is undergoing revolutionary change: new players, new technologies, new information flows, and new macroeconomic conditions. These changes are radically impacting investors, whether they realize it or not. Now, Wall Street insider Michael J. Panzner shows you how to profit from the changes--instead of being victimized by them.
Discover how falling transaction costs and a barrage of data are transforming investment patterns, and how stocks are increasingly being bought and sold like commodities. Understand the impact of electronic trading, instant messaging, and hedge funds on intraday volatility and short-term direction. Learn how booms and busts have altered investor behavior and risk preferences, why today's market is increasingly emotional, and why many traditional market indicators simply don't work anymore.
From the growing role of derivatives to the increasing unpredictability of seasonal and cyclical patterns, this book takes you "under the hood" of today's equity markets... so you can choose investments that win.
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| Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor | Price: GBP 25.00
by: Harold R. Evensky
 | ``Harold's diligent and scholarly approach to investing theory makes Wealth Management a thoughtful book that should be on every advisor's reading list.''--Charles R. Schwab, Chairman & CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation.
Wealth Management outlines the current state-of-the-art in financial planning, and describes respected financial planning speaker and author Harold Evensky's effective, optimal asset allocation policy that is designed to account for each client's unique goals and constraints.
It provides you with concise yet thorough information on current investment theories, along with detailed reference for further study.
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| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Price: GBP 20.00
by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 | In business and government, major money is spent on prediction. Uselessly, according to Taleb, who administers a severe thrashing to MBA- and Nobel Prize-credentialed experts who make their living from economic forecasting.
A financial trader and current rebel with a cause, Taleb is mathematically oriented and alludes to statistical concepts that underlie models of prediction, while his expressive energy is expended on roller-coaster passages, bordering on gleeful diatribes, on why experts are wrong.
They neglect Taleb's metaphor of "the black swan," whose discovery invalidated the theory that all swans are white.
Taleb rides this manifestation of the unpredicted event into a range of phenomena, such as why a book becomes a best-seller or how an entrepreneur becomes a billionaire, taking pit stops with philosophers who have addressed the meaning of the unexpected and confounding.
Taleb projects a strong presence here that will tempt outside-the-box thinkers into giving him a look.
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| Global Private Banking and Wealth Management | Price: GBP 45.00
by: David Maude
 | Wealth management is one of the areas in which banks and other personal financial services players are investing heavily. But the market is changing fast.
Going forward, players therefore need to adapt their strategies to the new realities: what worked in the past will not, for the most part, be appropriate in the future.
This unique book, written by a former McKinsey consultant, offers an up-to-date, detailed, practical understanding of this exciting area of financial services.
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| Richistan | Price: GBP 11.95
by: Robert Frank
 | Let's face it: we all want to know about the Rich. We know they're different than us, but how? We want to pry, but we're too polite or inhibited to ask, even if we get the chance, which is increasingly rare since they're walling themselves off in gated estates, floating around on mega-yachts or hiding behind the telephones at Christies auctions. Thank goodness the Wall Street Journal has unleashed Robert Frank as its "wealth reporter," a title which hardly does him justice. His inexhaustible curiosity, piercing eye for detail, and understated wit reminds me of Tom Wolfe, which is about the highest praise I can bestow. I can't remember the last time I've had so much fun with a work of non-fiction as I did reading "Richistan."
--James B. Stewart, author of "Den of Thieves" and "DisneyWar."
"Robert Frank truly understands the lives of today's wealthy. His entertaining profiles and fresh analysis make this a great read and a definitive portrait of the current boom."
--Ronald O. Perelman, billionaire financier, philanthropist.
"I couldn't put it down. Frank's field guide to the new rich is as funny as it is fascinating."
--Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine and author of "The Long Tail."
"There's no group in society that fascinates me more than the new rich, or the nouveau riche, as they used to be called, especially the ones with social ambitions. The great 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope created one of literature's greatest new rich characters in Augustus Melmott, who gave a ball for the emperor of China and everybody of social importance, who had sworn they'd never speak to him or his common wife, came and danced the night away. In Robert Frank's riveting book, Richistan, the same sort of attention-getting extravagance continues. Frank understands how great fortunes are made and how great fortunes are spent. I had a wonderful time reading this book."
-- Dominick Dunne
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| Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore | Price: GBP 16.50
by: Hoyt Barber
 | Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.
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| Wealth Management: A Concise Guide to Financial Planning and Investment Management for Wealthy Clients | Price: GBP 35.00
by: S. Timothy Kochis
 | The concise discussion reflects the tremendous experience gained in successfully serving thousands of elite clients. Financial planners, accountants, lawyers, brokers and portfolio managers who are looking to serve high net worth and high-income individuals or who want to expand on their existing skills in providing comprehensive planning and implementation assistance will benefit from this brand-new book.
Much of the book covers fundamental wealth planning topics with an honest, real-world view that can lead to new insights and ideas on the part of the reader. Newer and more contemporary issues, such as alternative investment options, get special attention.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT sets out a consistent, reliable approach to personal financial issues and describes a broad spectrum of appropriate responses, so clients and their wealth managers can be confident that, together, they are making intelligent decisions about money.
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| The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers | Price: GBP 12.50
by: Phil Rosenzweig
 | Review
"I was taken by this book. It destroys myths concerning the attribution of success in the management literature using potent empirical arguments. It should stand as one of the most important management books of all time, and an antidote to those bestselling books by gurus presenting false patter and naive arguments."
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
"In The Halo Effect, Phil Rosenzweig has done us all a great service by speaking the unspeakable. His iconoclastic analysis is a very welcome antidote to the kind of superficial, formulaic, and dumbed-down matter that seems to be the current stock in trade of many popular business books. It's the right book at the right time."
-- John R. Kimberly, Henry Bower Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Business books all too rarely combine real-world savvy with scientific rigor. Rosenzweig's book is an outstanding exception -- it's a superb work and long overdue."
-- Philip E. Tetlock, Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Chair in Leadership and Communication, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
"Rosenzweig doesn't only poke fun at the mass of bad writing and bad science in the management world. He explains why it is so bad -- and how you can learn from it, despite the efforts of the authors."
-- John Kay, Financial Times columnist and author of Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World
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| Funds of Hedge Funds: Performance, Assessment, Diversification, and Statistical Properties | Price: GBP 45.00
by: Greg N. Gregoriou
 | "According to TASS Tremont, the fraction of hedge funds that are funds of funds has doubled over the past five years, to 28 percent of all hedge funds as of September 2005. Attention must be paid. Academics have only just recently started to become interested in this business. This book of readings is one the first published collections of original scholarly papers on this subject. It is of great interest to many academics as well as of course to the many practitioners who are in the business today or who would very much like to enter the fund of funds business."
-- Stephen J. Brown, David Loeb Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business
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| Handbook of Alternative Assets | Price: GBP 55.00
by: Mark J. P., PhD, CFA Anson
 | Many books cover individual alternative asset classes, but none offers a comprehensive examination of the four major classes as presented in the Handbook of Alternative Assets. This complete handbook merges data and strategies scattered in numerous volumes into one handy guide for the serious investor. The four major classes discussed are, hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity and credit derivatives.
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| Quantitative Trading Strategies eBook | Price: USD 65
by: Lars Kestner
 | Harnessing the power of quantitative techniques to create a winning trading program, Lars Kestner's Quantitative Trading Strategies takes readers through the development and evaluation stages of todays most popular and market-proven technical trading strategies. Quantifying every subjective decision in the trading process, this analytical book evaluates the work of well-known quants from John Henry to Monroe Trout and introduces 12 all-new trading strategies. It debunks numerous popular misconceptions, and is certain to make waves, and change minds, in the world of technical analysis and trading.
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