Author: Bill Kraft
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: risk, measured, strategies, wiley, trading, low, trade, wealth, earn, profits, way
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0470129794
ISBN-13: 9780470129791
Successful trader and advisor Bill Kraft shows how to trade the financial markets in a way that limits risk and provides the potential for big profits. Kraft, who left a successful law practice to become an independent trader, explains his own educational process and how he arrived at a trading approach that primarily uses options to generate consistent income, limit risk, and participate in big market moves. In simple and down-to-earth language, Kraft explains a variety of strategies including buying and selling options; covered call writing; collars; using closed end mutual funds for income;
Author: Alastair Graham
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: risk, series, management, measuring, credit
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0814405371
ISBN-13: 9780814405376
Topics include: * defining and measuring credit risk parameters * credit risk modeling techniques * integrating credit risk strategies to enhance overall financial goals * case studies and sample exercises
Author: Kenneth L. Grant
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: risk, control, profitability, enhanced, trading
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-09-16
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0471650919
ISBN-13: 9780471650911
Revolutionary techniques that traders can implement to improve profits and avoid losses No trader, professional or individual, can afford not to have a solid risk management program integrated into his or her trading system. But finding a precise mathematical model to replace subjective decision-making processes is a challenge. Traditionally, risk management has focused solely on loss avoidance, but in Trading Risk, hedge fund risk manager Kenneth Grant presents some-thing completely new—how to manage a portfolio to minimize risk and increase profits by putting more capital at risk. Tradi
Author: Paul Slovic
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: risk, series, society, earthscan, perception
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1853835285
ISBN-13: 9781853835285
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society’s great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. "The Perception of Risk" brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world’s leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management. It examines the gap between the expert view of risk and public perceptions of it. Presented in chronological order, it allows the reader to see the evolution of such perceptions of risk over the years, from highlighting public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance of equity, trust, power and oth
Author: Aswath Damodara
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: risk, management, framework, taking, strategic
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-10-12
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0137043775
ISBN-13: 9780137043774
Front Flap In business and investing, risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies can lose money due to risk and therefore we typically penalize companies for taking risks. That’s why most books on risk management focus strictly on hedging or mitigating risk. But the enterprise’s relationship with risk should be far more nuanced. Great companies become great because they seek out and exploit intelligent risks, not because they avoid all risk. Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management is the first book to take this broader view, encompassing b
Author: Aswath Damodara
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: risk, management, framework, taking, strategic
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-08-12
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0131990489
ISBN-13: 9780131990487
Front Flap In business and investing, risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies can lose money due to risk and therefore we typically penalize companies for taking risks. That’s why most books on risk management focus strictly on hedging or mitigating risk. But the enterprise’s relationship with risk should be far more nuanced. Great companies become great because they seek out and exploit intelligent risks, not because they avoid all risk. Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management is the first book to take this broader view, encompassing b
Author: Philippe Jorio
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: risk, financial, managing, new, value, benchmark
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2006-10-19
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0071464956
ISBN-13: 9780071464956
Since its original publication, Value at Risk has become the industry standard in risk management. Now in its Third Edition, this international bestseller addresses the fundamental changes in the field that have occurred across the globe in recent years. Philippe Jorion provides the most current information needed to understand and implement VAR-as well as manage newer dimensions of financial risk. Featured updates include: An increased emphasis on operational risk Using VAR for integrated risk management and to measure economic capital Applications of VAR to risk budgeting in investment manag
