Currency Overlay: A Practical Guide
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    Currency Overlay: A Practical Guide
    Hai Xin
    Manufacturer: Risk Books in association with UBS
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    ASIN: 1904339174

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    By providing solutions to real-life problems and issues that have actually been raised by investment managers Currency Overlay: A Practical Guide is the most relevant and tested guide available to you. It discusses the myriad of available approaches, styles and philosophies to clarify the concept of currency overlay management and presents a balanced and objective overview of both the return and risk aspects of currency in investment portfolios.

    Currency overlay works by effectively managing your risk whilst adding significant value to your investment portfolio - and as an investment discipline it is widely regarded to offer a far greater consistency of success than any other.

    Hai Xin provides you with all the necessary information you need to set up a currency management programme or to choose one from the market that best suits your investment portfolio. For funds already equipped with a currency management policy this practical guide will provide an objective yardstick for policy review.

    As one of the first titles on the market to focus specifically on currency overlay you will find no better guide. Until now you had to rely on often impractical and biased information drawn from a variety of sources. With Currency Overlay you will save time and effort with all the vital information you need succinctly packaged into one manageable volume. What's more, with minimal technical knowledge required you will find this extensively referenced title both highly accessible and practical with examples illustrated with clear diagrams and figures throughout.

    What's more Currency Overlay's comprehensive approach covers the full spectrum of related theoretical and practical topics including: defining and decomposing currency returns, foreign exchange research and currency management styles, optimisation and hedge ratio, benchmark design and performance measurement, option pricing theory and dynamic hedging, emerging market currencies, liquidity and e-commerce.
    Retire Secure!: Pay Taxes Later  The Key to Making Your Money Last as Long as You Do
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    5 out of 5 stars Retire Secure-Solid Advice For All.......2006-10-21

    Reading "Retire Secure" will not alone make you rich. However, if you read and follow Mr. Lange's advice, you will build wealth and then protect it to the fullest extent possible. The book outlines a very clear path to maximize savings using the most effective vehicle available to you. Then it goes on to provide a thorough roadmap to minimizing your tax consequences and maximizing your after tax returns. Finally the book provides several different strategies for passing along wealth to your heirs while once again factoring in the greedy hands of Uncle Sam. The author not only provides you with the theory, as many financial planners do, but backs up his recommendations with solid proofs and confirms them with amusing case studies. Overall this book is an excellent source for information on the use of retirement funds for wealth building and hopefully inheritance to pass on.

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    Legal Guide for the Visual Artist
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    The book suggests basic strategies, gives information to help with further action, and contains many sample legal forms and contracts. This edition is a complete revision, providing not only updated legal information, but also covering the ever-increasing importance of new media and electronic rights.

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    It's not always the most entertaining book to read (who enjoys reading about taxes?), but read through it once. Stick it on your shelf. And then whenever you need it, the book can reference you to certain government documents such as release forms, copyright forms, tax forms, consignment forms, authenticity forms, etc. There's tons of forms in the book for you to work off of when you are writing up your own agreements. Also current on laws for artists. Always keep a current edition of this book handy.

    4 out of 5 stars Tad Crawford Does It Again.......2006-10-23

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    This is an excellent resource to define and explain legal issues in the arts. It is a little dry in some parts but far easier to read than books written for the legal profession. I have been using this book as a textbook for a college class at an art school for graphic design students for several years.

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    As the title of the book stated, "Legal guide for the VISUAL ARTIST", the book covers information that is aimed at VISUAL artists, including photographers, painters, printmakers, designers, sculptors, illustrators, textile designers, cartoonists, and craftspeople. Wow!

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    College Accounting: A Practical Approach Chapters 1-12 with Study Guide and Working Papers (10th Edition)
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      I highly recommend this book! I am about to graduate design school and am starting up a sole proprietorship. I realized I know absolutely nothing about what I'm getting into tax-wise, so I picket this up on Amazon. An excellent buy! This book is incredibly easy to read and understandable, despite the fact that you would expect the subject matter to be painfully dry. It's not. The world of taxes isn't half as painful and boring as I expected it to be, thanks to this book.

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      4 out of 5 stars A Few Issues but Holding a Few Gems Too.......2006-12-24

      I pretty much never comment about the font a book is done in, but let me start out my review by saying that this book had the oddest font choice I've seen. The letters were very thin, squarish, and actually hard to read against the white. It made me realize just how important something like font can be in a book.

      So, on to the content. This book is written by a self-employed person, for self-employed people, to help them manage their records for taxes. She doesn't want you to DO your taxes - she wants you to hire someone, like her, to do them for you :). She just wants you to be informed about what is going on, and to perhaps help prod your tax person along if they're not very good.

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        Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM) are today’s hottest management buzzwords. But written information has often been biased and clouded by the authors’ hidden agendas. EVA and Value-Based Management is the first book to unflinchingly discuss the pros and cons of EVA and VBM. Covering both implementation and conceptual issues, with a strong emphasis on performance measurement, value drivers, and management compensation, it allows readers to come to their own informed conclusions.

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        5 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!.......2003-02-26

        Kudos to S. David Young and Stephen F. O'Byrne, management consultants who largely steer clear of their industry's usual empty catchphrases and superficial hype. Instead, their lucid explanation of the importance of shareholder value takes center stage. The heftiness of EVA and Value-Based Management may be daunting, but most readers will be satisfied with Part I's strategic overview. The concepts reappear in Part II accompanied by a wealth of technical details, calculations and case studies to help finance professionals with nitty-gritty implementation of EVA (Economic Value Added) programs. The book honestly assesses EVA's power to motivate managers, noting that some companies just are not well-suited for this performance metric. We from getAbstract prescribe this book to corporate executives who have overdosed on consultant jargon but still want to drive value growth in their companies, and to finance specialists who seek a comprehensive roadmap to EVA implementation.

        5 out of 5 stars Excellent book.......2002-08-13

        As an author, speaker and consultant on these topics, I highly recommend this book. Not only have the authors discussed the pros and cons of a number of approaches thoughfully and concisely, they also expand the level of understanding related to the calculations in an accessible way. Their book discusses both implementation issues and the nitty gritty of the mechanics. In sum, the book takes the reader to the next level of understanding. I highly recommend this book.

        3 out of 5 stars Fails to keep its promise: Metric War + Compensation.......2001-07-02

        This book does NOT offer 'A practical guide to valuation' but a theoretical,oldfashioned discussion of the 'Metrics War'and some empirical research on EVA, Compensation and CFROI-Fade.

        My rating has got these origins: Empirical research on Compensation,EVA and CFROI-Fade: A+. Discussion of EVA/CFROI: D-. Terminology: D value for 'Hands-on-valuation': F- Structure: F- Style: F-.

        This book does contain interesting empirical research on EVA etc, but it does not offer 'A practical Guide to Implementation' because it does not contain a STAGE-Approach. Its terminology differs from any other book I've read, you must often guess, which formulas the authors used, because they did not have the courtesy to express their formulas. Some formulas are wrong nad their discussion of the 'metrics war' betweenn EVA and CFROI lags 5 years behind reality. They attack old methods of CFROI,which Boston Consulting and Holt Value published 5 (!) years ago. They fail to know, that BCG have refined CVA/CFROI and that BAYER. Lufthansa,and VEBA have implemented these refined CFROI-techniques,which are way better, than the old methods, which the book attacks.

        Moreover, this book is terrible to read due to a lack of structure, the absence of clear definitions, the lack of formulas, a wordy style,which exhausts your nerves, and many value judgements....

        5 out of 5 stars The EVA Guide which holds nothing back!.......2001-02-07

        This book, together with 'The Quest for Value'by G. Bennett Stewart, III and 'Valuation' by the Tom Copeland, provide a solid backgound on value-based management. S. David Young and Stephen F. O'Byrne give a fair description of their book: 'This book is not a intended to be a "teaser," which tries to tell you enough to whet your appetite so if you want to know more you will have to hire us as your consultants. We aim to be as comprehensive in our treatment of the subject as possible...We try to hold nothing back.' Thank you very much indeed.

        5 out of 5 stars is that right, EVA?.......2001-02-03

        I had a great approach to EVA concept but it too much simple in finances. Any way it is a good point to start the trip through the EVA world. The principle of EVA appears sound, but this book is good at attempting to illustrate how to practically use it.
        Efficient Asset Management: A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation
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        • It has good chapters, but...
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        Efficient Asset Management: A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation
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        4 out of 5 stars Important information when considering Markowitz optimization.......2007-05-13

        Michaud's resampling methodology is quite rigorous, although the patentability of application of econometric concepts that are over 40 years old to a theory advanced by Markowitz in 1952 should be seriously questioned by any rational reader. The applicability of resampling and improvements to the inputs to estimation are clear, and should be strongly considered by anyone in the asset management industry. The book glosses over other approaches to optimization that are not based on Markowitz, all but ignoring the huge body of literature that has been built up around other optimization approaches. Except for this shortfall, this is an excellent book, and shoulds be a part of your library on quantitative asset management.

        3 out of 5 stars It has good chapters, but..........2006-04-14

        This book has a couple of good chapters on the problems of implementing the Markowitz model. Interestingly enough, I understood better the resampling idea in Scherer's article (a clean and honest review in my opinion which Michaud understandably hates) than in the entire Michaud's book. If I'm not mistaken the basic resampling idea was originally due to Jorion. Michaud patented it a variation of it. Now if you want to implement the ideas presented in this book, you are by law forbidden to do it (because it is patented). In that sense I think this book should be free (since as another reviewer below put it, it is a sales pitch.) There is an interesting review on this troubling trend of patenting really basic algorithms in Wilmott Magazine. Still it makes interesting reading. 2 1/2 stars.

        5 out of 5 stars Required Reading for Sophisticated Investors.......2006-01-13

        This is an excellent book for the readers with solid quant skills. This is not a course in investing for poets. So be honest with yourself about your capabilities and needs.

        4 out of 5 stars the author responds.......2005-11-23

        The new reader should know that the innovations in the book described in chapters 6 and 7 have been awarded three patents so far, two in the U.S. and one in Israel. Worldwide patents are pending. The critiques by some reviewers do not mention that many sophisticated investment and consulting institutions worldwide have adopted the techniques described in this book as their sole asset allocation optimization framework. They also do not mention that Markowitz has confirmed that "Michaud optimization beats Markowitz optimization" and that "Bayes does not beat Michaud optimization." Resampled Efficiency™ optimization is the only provably effective portfolio optimization and portfolio rebalancing technology in the world today and is revolutionizing asset management in practice worldwide. See www.newfrontieradvisors.com for further updates, research and applications.

        1 out of 5 stars All gloss no substance.......2005-03-16

        I am surprised that this process has gained the clout that it has. It almost seems like the finance industry got bored of existing processes and so came up with something new and possibly promising, evn though the author himself cannot explain why hes doing what he is doing.

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        The Internal Auditor at Work: A Practical Guide to Everyday Challenges
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          The Internal Auditor at Work: A Practical Guide to Everyday Challenges
          K. H. Spencer Pickett
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          In a business environment currently undergoing major reevaluation, The Internal Auditor at Work provides an invaluable tool for internal auditing professionals and all others with an interest in adding value to their organizational processes.

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          A clear, accessible guide to the roles and responsibilities of today's internal auditor
          At a time when companies are seeking to reevaluate their practices and add value to their audit processes, The Internal Auditor at Work represents an invaluable, user-friendly, and up-to-date guidebook for the internal auditing professional to refine and rethink both day-to-day methods and the underlying significance of the job.
          Each chapter of this in-depth, functional analysis contains numerous resources to guide the reader toward greater understanding and performance. Discussion questions promote dialogue among auditing professionals on the various topics covered. Top ten considerations lists recap the important points of each chapter. And end-of-chapter exercises are especially valuable to new internal auditors in that they facilitate self-development and application of principles covered.
          Written in partnership with the Institute of Internal Auditors with special attention to its revised standards and guidelines, The Internal Auditor at Work includes chapters on:
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