- Keys to Successful Venture Capital Investing: Due Diligence
- Dec 23, 2003
- This chapter starts the beginning of what venture capitalists (VCs) call the due diligence process. That is, it describes the steps that an investor should take in researching an investment opportunity. This is a detailed process that takes weeks—sometimes months—of work. It begins when an investor is confronted with a business proposal and must decide whether the idea warrants further investigation.
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- Know Your Bear Markets
- Dec 14, 2001
- Bear markets and market corrections can play havoc with your portfolio. Armed with information about how bear markets come about, you will be better prepared to deal with the consequences.
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- Lessons for Multi National Corporations from Markets at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Sep 24, 2009
- In this excerpt from his book, C.K. Prahalad explains that the choices at the Bottom of the Pyramid are simple: either change your management systems to cut costs or lose significant amounts of money.
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- Lessons for Multi National Corporations from Markets at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Sep 23, 2009
- In this excerpt from his book, C.K. Prahalad explains that the choices at the Bottom of the Pyramid are simple: either change your management systems to cut costs or lose significant amounts of money.
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- Make More, Worry Less: Secrets to Creating a Bigger Income and a Better Life
- Apr 9, 2008
- Wes Moss introduces the concepts in his book, Make More, Worry Less.
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- Making College More Affordable
- May 15, 2012
- Lynn O'Shaughnessy explains that the best way to increase your family’s chances of capturing a price cut is to understand the motivation behind the pricing discrimination that routinely happens behind closed doors on college campuses. When money is limited, and it is for nearly all institutions of higher education, colleges and universities do play favorites with their applicants.
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- Making The Most Of Your Inheritance
- Feb 20, 2004
- The use of inheritance in VB.NET (or, really, any other) programming increases your responsibilities, during both the design phase and the coding phase. If you decide to create a class from which other classes will inherit, you must make several extra design decisions. This sample book chapter from Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET will help you learn how to make those decisions.
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- Mark Zandi on Financial Shock to Financial Panic
- Sep 12, 2012
- While there remains much to be nervous and frustrated about, it is impressive how much progress has been made in righting the wrongs that got us into the financial mess of that last few years. Mark Zandi argues that Our economic future has never been brighter.
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- Mastering Market Timing with Richard D. Wyckoff and Lyman M. Lowry: The Analysts and Their Methods
- Jul 7, 2011
- The authors discuss the market timing methods of Richard D. Wyckoff and Lyman M. Lowry.
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- Maybe the Fans Are Right
- Jan 19, 2010
- Decision-making is not often as rational as traditional economics argues. And that story has an impact on our understanding of both sports and economics.
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- Maybe the New Economy Isn't So New
- Nov 30, 2001
- The dot-com crash should not be seen as the end of an economic heyday. Quite to the contrary, we are in the early days of an upwave in the "Long Cycle." Donald Tapscott and Sherry Cooper tell you why this upwave will last at least another ten to fifteen ...
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- Money Talk with Liz Weston: Babies, Building Credit, and Bankruptcy's Effect on Your Credit Score
- Nov 25, 2009
- Liz Weston discusses preparing financially for a new baby, building credit in tight times and how bankruptcy affects your credit scores.
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- Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad
- Jul 23, 2012
- Peter Atwater explains that markets are not moved by corporate or economic data or even by external events but by us; by how we feel—our mood—and, importantly, by how changes in our mood drive our preferences and in turn the specific decisions that we make every day.
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- Mutual Funds: Evaluating Your Investment Situation
- Nov 15, 2002
- This introduction to Charles P. Jones' book covers the current state of mutual funds markets and provides a preview of what's to come in future chapters.
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- Option Basics: A Crash Course in Option Mechanics
- Jan 22, 2009
- What is an option? What is a derivative? What is an underlying asset? The authors of "Commodity Options " explain the basics.
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- Option Selection for the Beginner
- May 12, 2006
- Each of us has our own idea about when something is cheap. On a superficial level, something that costs $1 is cheap, and something that costs $100 is expensive. But it is not really the dollar cost that makes something cheap or expensive. Rather, it is whether the intrinsic value of the item purchased is close to the cost paid to own that item. Sometimes, options are hyped until their price far exceeds their actual values. This chapter will help you distinguish a cheap price from a hyped price.
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- Option Strategies for Earnings Announcements: Opportunities and Risks
- Oct 11, 2012
- Because earnings announcement trades involve transacting around a short, well-defined window of time, they can, when properly implemented, produce positive returns regardless of the market environment. The authors explain the opportunities and risks around earnings announcements.
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- Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Setting the Ground Rules
- Nov 3, 2009
- Michael C. Thomsett lays the groundwork for how conservative investors can employ options strategies to enhance current income without increasing market risks; protect long positions through options used for insurance; and create a form of contingency to survive in volatile market conditions.
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- Options Trading for the Institutional Investor: Setting the Ground Rules
- Apr 29, 2014
- Michael C. Thomsett outlines the five underlying assumptions that this book follows—ground rules to keep in mind because they relate to your risk profile and investing philosophy.
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- Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems
- Aug 12, 2010
- The authors of Out of Water believe a water crisis is imminent, and propose using scientific and socio-economic evidence as the basis for reform and management action in the water sector.
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