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Security Analysis and Investment Strategy

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Security Analysis and Investment Strategy

By: Geoffrey Poitras

This innovative text presents the theoretical foundations of security analysis and investment strategy, and explores the practical applications of these theories. After establishing an historical foundation, the book examines fixed income securities, equity analysis and investment strategy. Assesses a range of approaches to investment analysis and strategy Develops an advanced treatment of the subject throughout, while remaining focused on the practical concerns of security analysts Features end-of-chapter questions, case studies and references Integrates history, theory, technique, and application This text is an indispensable resource for any serious student of finance. Online material to accompany this book can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/poitras

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1405112484

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Equity Capital

From Ancient Partnerships to Modern Exchange Traded Funds

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Equity Capital

From Ancient Partnerships to Modern Exchange Traded Funds

By: Geoffrey Poitras

Capitalism is historically pervasive. Despite attempts through the centuries to suppress or control the private ownership of commercial assets, production and trade for profit has survived and, ultimately, flourished. Against this backdrop, accounting provides a fundamental insight: the ‘value’ of physical and intangible capital assets that are used in production is identically equal to the sum of the debt liabilities and equity capital that are used to finance those assets. In modern times, this appears as the balance sheet relationship. In determining the ‘value’ of items on the balance sheet, equity capital appears as a residual calculated as the difference between the ‘value’ of assets and liabilities. Through the centuries, the organization of capitalist activities has changed considerably, dramatically impacting the methods used to value, trade and organize equity capital. To reflect these changes, this book is divided into four parts that roughly correspond to major historical changes in equity capital organization. The first part of this book examines the rudimentary commercial ventures that characterized trading for profit from ancient times until the contributions of the medieval scholastics that affirmed the moral value of equity capital. The second part deals with the evolution of equity capital organization used in seaborne trade of the medieval and Renaissance Italian city states and in the early colonization ventures of western European powers and ends with the emergence in the market for tradeable equity capital shares during the 17th century. The third part begins with the 1719-1720 Mississippi scheme and South Sea bubbles in northern Europe and continues to cover the transition from joint stock companies to limited liability corporations with autonomous shares in England, America and France during the 19th century. This part ends with a fundamental transition in the social conception of equity capital from a concern with equity capital organization to the problem of determining value. The final part is concerned with the evolving valuation and management of equity capital from the 1920s to the present. This period includes the improvement corporate accounting for publicly traded shares engendered by the Great Depression that has facilitated the use of ‘value investing’ techniques and the conflicting emergence of portfolio management methods of modern Finance. Equity Capital is aimed at providing material relevant for academic presentations of equity valuation history and methods, and is targeted at researchers, academics, students and professionals alike.

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131759102X

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Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

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Commodity Risk Management goes beyond just an introductory treatment of derivative securities, dealing with more advanced topics and approaching the subject matter from a unique perspective. At its core lies the concept that commodity risk management decisions require an in-depth understanding of speculative strategies, and vice versa. The book offers readers a unified treatment of important concepts and techniques that are useful in applying derivative securities in the management of risk in commodity markets. While some of these techniques are well known and fairly common, Poitras offers applications to specific situations and links to speculative trading strategies - extensions of the material that not only are hard to come by, but helpful to both the academic and the practitioner. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the general framework for commodity risk management, the second part focuses on the use of derivative security contracts in commodity risk management, and the third part deals with applications to three specific situations. As a textbook, this book is designed to appeal to classes at a senior undergraduate/MBA/MA levelof training in Finance, financial economics, actuarial science, management science, agriculturaleconomics and accounting. There will also be interest for the book as: a monograph for research libraries, a handbook for individuals working in the commodity risk management industry, and a guidebook for those in the general public interested in topics like farm risk management or the assessment of hedging practices of publicly-traded commodity producers.

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113626261X

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Valuation of Equity Securities

History, Theory and Application

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Valuation of Equity Securities

History, Theory and Application

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Provides a treatment of academic and practitioner approaches to equity security valuation. This book challenges conventional academic wisdom surrounding the ergodic properties of stochastic processes, guided by historical and philosophical insights. It presents the implications of a general stochastic interpretation of equity security valuation.

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World Scientific

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9814295388

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Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Inequality, Globalization and Capital Income

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Inequality, Globalization and Capital Income

By: Geoffrey Poitras

Taxes on the wealthy are a topic sure to incite venomous rants from both right-wing and left-wing ideologues. The topic attracts conflicting interpretations and policy recommendations, and generates proposals for tax reform that consume political debate. All this activity takes place against an opaque backdrop of empirical evidence dealing with the distribution of wealth and income, and tax avoidance and tax evasion by corporations and wealthy individuals. Rethinking Wealth and Taxes explores these problems and considers the possibilities for increasing taxes on wealth to address the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and income.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1839106158

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Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

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Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

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Its unified treatment of derivative security applications to both risk management and speculative trading separates this book from others. Presenting an integrated explanation of speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view, Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities is the only standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives. After offering a general framework for risk management and speculation using derivative securities, it explores specific applications to forward contracts and options. Not intended as a comprehensive introduction to derivative securities, Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities is the innovative, useful approach that addresses new developments in derivatives and risk management.*The only standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives*Examines speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view*Provides an innovative, useful approach that addresses new developments in derivatives and risk management

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Elsevier

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0080480756

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Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

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Commodity Risk Management

Theory and Application

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This book aims to cover the following general topics: development and assessment of theories for evaluating commodity risk; the role of derivative securities in managing commodity risk; and, an assessment of the actual management of commodity risk in specific situations. The primary contribution of the book is the explicit development of the often overlooked connection between risk management and speculation. The central theme is to demonstrate that commodity risk management decisions require an in depth understanding of speculative strategies. To this end, this book aims to provide a unified treatment of important concepts and techniques that are useful in applying derivative securities in the management of risk arising in commodity markets.

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0415879299

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Pipe Dreams

The Fight for Canada's Energy Future

By: Jacques Poitras

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Pipe Dreams

The Fight for Canada's Energy Future

By: Jacques Poitras

Winner of the 2018 Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2018 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Shortlisted for the 2019 JW Dafoe Book Prize A timely chronicle of how Canada's oil pipelines have become hotbeds for debate about our energy future, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions. Pipe Dreams is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline and the broader battle over climate and energy in Canada. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton, AB, and stretching over four thousand kilometres, through Montreal to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, NB. Conceived as a back-up plan for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, it became the crucible for a national debate over the future of oil. In a cross-country journey, Poitras talked to industry executives, prairie ranchers, First Nations chiefs, mayors, premiers, cabinet ministers, and refinery workers. He also explored Canada's perplexing oil relationship with the United States: our industry is literally tied to its American counterpart with sinews of steel. The Energy East pipeline represented a new direction, designed to get Alberta oil sands crude to lucrative world markets. Yet it was promoted in explicitly nationalist terms: the country was said to be reorienting itself along its east-west axis, tying itself together, again, with a great feat of engineering. By the time the journey ended, the story had become a kind of whodunit: Poitras witnessed the slow-motion killing of the fifteen billion dollar project. Unfolding in tandem with clashes over the Trans Mountain pipeline, Energy East's demise heralded a potential turning point not just for a single proposal, but for Canada's carbon economy. Entertaining, informative, and insightful, Pipe Dreams offers a clear picture of the complicated political, environmental, and economic issues that Canadians face.

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0735233365

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Irving vs. Irving

Canada's Feuding Billionaires And The Stories They Won't Tell

By: Jacques Poitras

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Irving vs. Irving

Canada's Feuding Billionaires And The Stories They Won't Tell

By: Jacques Poitras

They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire —which includes Canada’s largest refinery, soon to be linked by pipeline to Alberta’s oil fields—by remaining private. Irving vs Irving tells the story of how these ambitious, often ruthless entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada, and how they learned to love the property that perplexed them most: their media monopoly. The Irvings’ control of all of New Brunswick’s daily newspapers often allowed the family’s business pursuits to escape journalistic scrutiny. Readers frequently wondered what wasn’t in the newspaper, such as the Irving’s lobbying for their logging interests and the sinking of their tanker loaded with PCBs. In Irving vs Irving, veteran reporter Jacques Poitras uses the empire’s media holdings to examine previously untold episodes of this family epic from patriarch K.C. Irving’s manipulation of his mother’s affections to a Shakespearean confrontation between generations.

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0143193023

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Equity Capital

From Ancient Partnerships to Modern Exchange Traded Funds

By: Geoffrey Poitras

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From Ancient Partnerships to Modern Exchange Traded Funds

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The Anime Companion

What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

By: Gilles Poitras

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The Anime Companion

What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

By: Gilles Poitras

Entries covers Japanese life and culture with specific references to the subject in anime and manga.

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1880656329

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Valuation Of Equity Securities: History, Theory And Application

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Valuation Of Equity Securities: History, Theory And Application

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This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of academic and practitioner approaches to equity security valuation. Guided by historical and philosophical insights, conventional academic wisdom surrounding the ergodic properties of stochastic processes is challenged. In addition, the implications of a general stochastic interpretation of equity security valuation are provided. Valuation of Equity Securities will also be a good reference source for students and professionals interested in the theoretical and practical applications of equity securities.

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9813107812

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Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

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Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Inequality, Globalization and Capital Income

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Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Inequality, Globalization and Capital Income

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Security Analysis and Investment Strategy

Security Analysis and Investment Strategy

Equity Capital

Equity Capital

Commodity Risk Management

Commodity Risk Management

Valuation of Equity Securities

Valuation of Equity Securities

Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

Commodity Risk Management

Commodity Risk Management

Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams

Irving vs. Irving

Irving vs. Irving

Equity Capital

Equity Capital

The Anime Companion

The Anime Companion

Valuation Of Equity Securities: History, Theory And Application

Valuation Of Equity Securities: History, Theory And Application

Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities

Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

Rethinking Wealth and Taxes

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