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Quantitative Investment Analysis

By: Richard A. DeFusco,Dennis W. McLeavey,Jerald E. Pinto,David E. Runkle,Mark J. P. Anson

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Quantitative Investment Analysis

By: Richard A. DeFusco,Dennis W. McLeavey,Jerald E. Pinto,David E. Runkle,Mark J. P. Anson

Your complete guide to quantitative analysis in the investment industry Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a newly revised and updated text that presents you with a blend of theory and practice materials to guide you through the use of statistics within the context of finance and investment. With equal focus on theoretical concepts and their practical applications, this approachable resource offers features, such as learning outcome statements, that are targeted at helping you understand, retain, and apply the information you have learned. Throughout the text's chapters, you explore a wide range of topics, such as the time value of money, discounted cash flow applications, common probability distributions, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, and correlation and regression. Applying quantitative analysis to the investment process is an important task for investment pros and students. A reference that provides even subject matter treatment, consistent mathematical notation, and continuity in topic coverage will make the learning process easier—and will bolster your success. Explore the materials you need to apply quantitative analysis to finance and investment data—even if you have no previous knowledge of this subject area Access updated content that offers insight into the latest topics relevant to the field Consider a wide range of subject areas within the text, including chapters on multiple regression, issues in regression analysis, time-series analysis, and portfolio concepts Leverage supplemental materials, including the companion Workbook and Instructor's Manual, sold separately Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a fundamental resource that covers the wide range of quantitative methods you need to know in order to apply quantitative analysis to the investment process.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119104599

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Degree of Guilt

A Thriller

By: Richard North Patterson

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Degree of Guilt

A Thriller

By: Richard North Patterson

From one of the premiere thriller writers of our day, in the same league as Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, Nelson Demille, and Michael Connolly, comes Richard North Patterson's engrossing Degree of Guilt. TV journalist Mary Carelli admits that she shot and killed Mark Ransom, one of the world's most famous authors. She claims it was self-defense. She swears he tried to rape her. Now she has to prove it in a court of law—with her former lover acting as her attorney... Christopher Paget is one of the top lawyers in the country. But defending the mother of his son in the trial of the decade, he begins to have doubts. Is Mary telling the truth? Did she invent her story about the rape? What is she hiding? With each shocking revelation, Paget is forced to question his defense, his ethics, and the whole legal system. Because no one, not even the judge, is completely innocent. And guilt is a matter of degree...

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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142995566X

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Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in rebellion

By: Richard Hart

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Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in rebellion

By: Richard Hart

This classic and controversial volume provides extensive coverage of slave resistance and revolt in Jamaica.

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9766401101

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Exile

By: Richard North Patterson

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Exile

By: Richard North Patterson

Thriller.

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Macmillan

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0805079475

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Proportionality Principles in American Law

Controlling Excessive Government Actions

By: E. Thomas Sullivan,Richard S. Frase

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Proportionality Principles in American Law

Controlling Excessive Government Actions

By: E. Thomas Sullivan,Richard S. Frase

From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to contemporary theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power. Two renowned legal scholars seek to advance such a theory.

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Oxford University Press

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0195324935

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Efficient Asset Management

A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation

By: Richard O. Michaud,Robert O. Michaud

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Efficient Asset Management

A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation

By: Richard O. Michaud,Robert O. Michaud

In spite of theoretical benefits, Markowitz mean-variance (MV) optimized portfolios often fail to meet practical investment goals of marketability, usability, and performance, prompting many investors to seek simpler alternatives. Financial experts Richard and Robert Michaud demonstrate that the limitations of MV optimization are not the result of conceptual flaws in Markowitz theory but unrealistic representation of investment information. What is missing is a realistic treatment of estimation error in the optimization and rebalancing process. The text provides a non-technical review of classical Markowitz optimization and traditional objections. The authors demonstrate that in practice the single most important limitation of MV optimization is oversensitivity to estimation error. Portfolio optimization requires a modern statistical perspective. Efficient Asset Management, Second Edition uses Monte Carlo resampling to address information uncertainty and define Resampled Efficiency (RE) technology. RE optimized portfolios represent a new definition of portfolio optimality that is more investment intuitive, robust, and provably investment effective. RE rebalancing provides the first rigorous portfolio trading, monitoring, and asset importance rules, avoiding widespread ad hoc methods in current practice. The Second Edition resolves several open issues and misunderstandings that have emerged since the original edition. The new edition includes new proofs of effectiveness, substantial revisions of statistical estimation, extensive discussion of long-short optimization, and new tools for dealing with estimation error in applications and enhancing computational efficiency. RE optimization is shown to be a Bayesian-based generalization and enhancement of Markowitz's solution. RE technology corrects many current practices that may adversely impact the investment value of trillions of dollars under current asset management. RE optimization technology may also be useful in other financial optimizations and more generally in multivariate estimation contexts of information uncertainty with Bayesian linear constraints. Michaud and Michaud's new book includes numerous additional proposals to enhance investment value including Stein and Bayesian methods for improved input estimation, the use of portfolio priors, and an economic perspective for asset-liability optimization. Applications include investment policy, asset allocation, and equity portfolio optimization. A simple global asset allocation problem illustrates portfolio optimization techniques. A final chapter includes practical advice for avoiding simple portfolio design errors. With its important implications for investment practice, Efficient Asset Management 's highly intuitive yet rigorous approach to defining optimal portfolios will appeal to investment management executives, consultants, brokers, and anyone seeking to stay abreast of current investment technology. Through practical examples and illustrations, Michaud and Michaud update the practice of optimization for modern investment management.

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Oxford University Press

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0199715793

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War and Trade in the West Indies

By: Richard Pares

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War and Trade in the West Indies

By: Richard Pares

First published in 1963. This volume is an historical look at the succession of war and trade of the West Indies from 1739 to 1763, combining law, politics, narrative and the structure of the society.

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Routledge

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1136259058

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Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions

Location, Identification and Environmental Remediation

By: Richard Albright

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Cleanup of Chemical and Explosive Munitions

Location, Identification and Environmental Remediation

By: Richard Albright

Unexploded military ordnance and toxic chemicals, some dating back to the two World Wars, are a global concern, especially when former military bases are redeveloped for housing or other civilian uses. Internationally, there are the added challenges of cleanup of battlegrounds and minefields. Experts estimate that the United States alone could spend between $50–250 billion to clean up these sites, many of which are in areas of high population density, where the demand for land for development is high. This book is unique in providing detailed guidance for cleaning up military ordnance sites – listing explosives, chemical warfare materials and breakdown products which can contaminate soil and groundwater and the tests needed to detect them, as well as cleanup techniques. Also included are remote sensing techniques, geophysical techniques, safety issues, the particular challenges of chemical weapons, etc. The author illustrates these techniques with case studies, including former battlegrounds in Europe and Asia, storage and waste disposal sites in Russia and former Soviet territories, and an extended study of the remediation of the large and complex Spring Valley site in the District of Columbia,. The second edition has been fully revised and updated, and also includes new and expanded sections on: - geophysical techniques for discovering buried ordnance - underwater sites and remediation techniques - use of robotics, including remotely operated vehicles - compliance and regulatory issues - guidance documents from US Department of Defense and other sources The focus on test procedures, environmental remediation techniques, and learning from past case studies, makes Albright's book the most comprehensive and practical guide on the market for a topic of international importance. - The only book available with clear and complete guidance for the cleanup of military ordnance sites and battlefields - The author illustrates his recommendations with real world cases including Spring Valley, DC, former battlegrounds in Europe and Asia, and storage and waste disposal sites in Russia and other former Soviet states - An essential reference for the test and environmental remediation procedures required to put former military sites back in to civilian use (e.g. housing) - 30% revision, with key updates concerning regulatory changes, US Dept of Defense guidance documents, use of robotic vehicles, underwater sites and discovery of buried ordnance

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William Andrew

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1437734782

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

By: Ramazan Gençay,Michel Dacorogna,Ulrich A. Muller,Olivier Pictet,Richard Olsen

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

By: Ramazan Gençay,Michel Dacorogna,Ulrich A. Muller,Olivier Pictet,Richard Olsen

Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market microstructure. This book discusses the best mathematical models and tools for dealing with such vast amounts of data.This book provides a framework for the analysis, modeling, and inference of high frequency financial time series. With particular emphasis on foreign exchange markets, as well as currency, interest rate, and bond futures markets, this unified view of high frequency time series methods investigates the price formation process and concludes by reviewing techniques for constructing systematic trading models for financial assets.

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Elsevier

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008049904X

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Einstein's Generation

The Origins of the Relativity Revolution

By: Richard Staley

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Einstein's Generation

The Origins of the Relativity Revolution

By: Richard Staley

Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226770575

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Researching American-made Toy Soldiers

32 Years of Articles

By: Richard O'Brien

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Researching American-made Toy Soldiers

32 Years of Articles

By: Richard O'Brien

For the first time, Richard O'Brien has collected hundreds of articles and features he wrote for various toy soldier collecting magazines in one compelling book. Filled with pictures and information on the best known -- and the most obscure -- toy soldiers of the past century.

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Lulu.com

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1605433101

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Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

By: Richard Cust

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Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

By: Richard Cust

This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds to stabilise the social order.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244536

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Portfolio Design

A Modern Approach to Asset Allocation

By: Richard C. Marston

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Portfolio Design

A Modern Approach to Asset Allocation

By: Richard C. Marston

Portfolio Design – choosing the right mix of assets appropriate to a particular investor – is the key to successful investing. It can help you accumulate wealth over time, while cushioning the blow of possible economic downturns. But in order to successfully achieve this goal, you need to be familiar with all of the major asset classes that go into modern portfolios and learn how much they add to portfolio diversification. Thoughtful asset allocation provides discipline to the investment process and gives you the best chance of building and safeguarding wealth. Wharton Professor Richard C. Marston, 2014 recipient of the Investment Management Consultants Association’s prestigious Matthew R. McArthur Award, will guide you through the major decisions that need to be made when designing a portfolio and will put you in the best position to balance the risk-reward relationship that is part of this endeavor. Portfolio Design is to be read by investment advisors. The book is rich in information about individual asset classes, including both traditional assets like stocks and bonds as well as alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and commodities. So it should appeal to all sophisticated advisors whether or not they are trying to qualify for one of the major investment designations. In fact, the book is designed to be read by any advisor who is as fascinated as Marston by the investment process.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118007050

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The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

A History of the South

By: John Richard Alden

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The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

A History of the South

By: John Richard Alden

In 1763 the oppressive program of Grenville set up a tempo of resentment. Virginia and Maryland soon struck against the abuse of liberty, with Patrick Henry as their spokesman. Rioting followed the Carolinas and Georgia. With the Townshend Acts of 1767 the crisis worsened. In nine more years the “Tea and Trumpets” period—to use Mr. Alden’s phrase—would explode into the Revolution. These events form but a single, bright strand in the intricate story of the South during the Revolution. This volume—the first complete account yet written of an exciting period—ranges from the demography of the South (including White, Negro, and Indian groups), through the War of Independence, into the critical early years of the Union. The emphasis throughout is upon political and social change. The network of historic conditions and human motives is treated with consummate skill; and the heroic story of the war, with its gallery of personalities on both sides, is vigorously narrated. The book also gives a valuable account both of the origins and evolution of Southern sectionalism and of the role of the South in creating the Union. Besides the full-scale record of the colony-states on the Atlantic seaboard, the development of the Old Southwest is brilliantly detailed, including Indian warfare, the settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and many other related topics.

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LSU Press

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080710003X

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History of The Nineteenth Army Corps

History of the Nineteenth Army Corps: Richard Biddle Irwin's Account of Military History

By: Richard Biddle Irwin

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History of the Nineteenth Army Corps: Richard Biddle Irwin's Account of Military History

By: Richard Biddle Irwin

History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard Biddle Irwin: Dive into the annals of military history with Richard Biddle Irwin's "History of the Nineteenth Army Corps." This comprehensive account chronicles the role and actions of this army corps during a critical period in American history. Key Aspects of the Book "History of the Nineteenth Army Corps": Civil War Era: Richard Biddle Irwin provides a detailed examination of the Nineteenth Army Corps' involvement in the American Civil War, shedding light on key battles and strategies. Military Leadership: The book explores the leadership within the corps, highlighting the generals and officers who played pivotal roles in shaping its history. Historical Significance: Readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the Nineteenth Army Corps' contributions to the Union cause and its impact on the outcome of the Civil War. Richard Biddle Irwin was a historian and author known for his meticulous research and scholarly approach to military history. "History of the Nineteenth Army Corps" is a testament to his dedication to preserving the legacy of this important military unit.

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Prabhat Prakashan

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8184306911

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9788184306910

Licensed by Authority

Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship

By: Richard Burt

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Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship

By: Richard Burt

A provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture.

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Cornell University Press

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0801427827

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9780801427824

The Power of Passive Investing

More Wealth with Less Work

By: Richard A. Ferri

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The Power of Passive Investing

More Wealth with Less Work

By: Richard A. Ferri

A practical guide to passive investing Time and again, individual investors discover, all too late, that actively picking stocks is a loser's game. The alternative lies with index funds. This passive form of investing allows you to participate in the markets relatively cheaply while prospering all the more because the money saved on investment expenses stays in your pocket. In his latest book, investment expert Richard Ferri shows you how easy and accessible index investing is. Along the way, he highlights how successful you can be by using this passive approach to allocate funds to stocks, bonds, and other prudent asset classes. Addresses the advantages of index funds over portfolios that are actively managed Offers insights on index-based funds that provide exposure to designated broad markets and don't make bets on individual securities Ferri is also author of the Wiley title: The ETF Book and co-author of The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning If you're looking for a productive investment approach that won't take all of your time to implement, then The Power of Passive Investing is the book you need to read.

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0470937122

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