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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive treatment of credit risk assessment and credit risk rating that meets the Advanced Internal Risk-Based (AIRB) approach of Basel II. Credit risk analysis looks at many risks and this book covers all the critical areas that credit professionals need to know, including country analysis, industry analysis, financial analysis, business analysis, and management analysis. Organized under two methodological approaches to credit analysis—a criteria-based approach, which is a hybrid of expert judgement and purely mathematical methodologies, and a mathematical approach using regression analysis to model default probability—the book covers a cross-section of industries including passenger airline, commercial real estate, and commercial banking. In three parts, the sections focus on hybrid models, statistical models, and credit management. While the book provides theory and principles, its emphasis is on practical applications, and will appeal to credit practitioners in the banking and investment community alongside college and university students who are preparing for a career in lending.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis self-contained book presents the main techniques of quantitative portfolio management and associated statistical methods in a very didactic and structured way, in a minimum number of pages. The concepts of investment portfolios, self-financing portfolios and absence of arbitrage opportunities are extensively used and enable the translation of all the mathematical concepts in an easily interpretable way. All the results, tested with Python programs, are demonstrated rigorously, often using geometric approaches for optimization problems and intrinsic approaches for statistical methods, leading to unusually short and elegant proofs. The statistical methods concern both parametric and non-parametric estimators and, to estimate the factors of a model, principal component analysis is explained. The presented Python code and web scraping techniques also make it possible to test the presented concepts on market data. This book will be useful for teaching Masters students and for professionals in asset management, and will be of interest to academics who want to explore a field in which they are not specialists. The ideal pre-requisites consist of undergraduate probability and statistics and a familiarity with linear algebra and matrix manipulation. Those who want to run the code will have to install Python on their pc, or alternatively can use Google Colab on the cloud. Professionals will need to have a quantitative background, being either portfolio managers or risk managers, or potentially quants wanting to double check their understanding of the subject.Trade Review“The book contains both rigorously stated theory and practical instructions, up to instructions for programmers, it will be useful for a very wide audience, from students and teachers to experienced professionals in quantitative finance. It is written in clear, simple language and is quite interesting.” (Yuliya S. Mishura, zbMATH 1452.91005, 2021)Table of ContentsReturns and the Gaussian Hypothesis.- Utility Functions and the Theory of Choice.- The Markowitz Framework.- Markowitz Without a Risk-Free Asset.- Markowitz with a Risk-Free Asset.- Performance and Diversification Indicators.- Risk Measures and Capital Allocation.- Factor Models.- Identification of the Factors.- Exercises and Problems.

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Book SynopsisEconomic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global Liquidity describes the gross flows of credit and international capital feeding through the world’s banking systems and wholesale money markets. The huge jump in the volume of international financial markets since the mid-1980s has been boosted by deregulation, innovation and easy money, with financial globalisation now surpassing the peaks of integration reached before the First World War. Global Liquidity drives these markets: it is often determinant, frequently disruptive and always fast-moving. Barely one fifth of Wall Street’s huge gains over recent decades have come from earnings: rising liquidity and investors’ appetite for riskier financial assets have propelled stock prices higher. Similar experiences are shared worldwide and even in emerging markets, such as India, flat earnings have not deterred waves of foreign money and domestic mutual funds from driving-up stock prices. Now with central banks actively pursuing quantitative easing policies, industrial corporations flush with cash and rising wealth levels among emerging market investors, the liquidity theory of investment has never been more important.International spill-overs of these rapacious cross-border flows sets off capital wars and exposes the unattractive face of liquidity called ‘risk.’ As the world grows bigger, it becomes ever more volatile. From the early 1960s onwards, the world economy and its financial markets have suffered from three broad types of shocks – labour costs, oil and commodities, and global liquidity. Financial markets spin on fragile axes and the absence of liquidity often provides a warning of upcoming troubles. Global Liquidity is a much-discussed, but narrowly-researched and vaguely-defined topic. This book deeply explores the subject by clearly defining and measuring liquidity worldwide and by showing its importance for investors. The roles of central banks, shadow banking, the rise of Repo and growth of wholesale money are discussed. Additionally, covering the latest developments in China’s increasingly dominant financial economy, this book will appeal to practitioners, policy-makers, economists and academics, as well as those with a general interest in how financial markets work.Trade Review“Michael J. Howell’s Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity is a must-read for anyone trying to navigate the vagaries of inflation, bond yields, risk and volatility in global markets.” (Melissa Davies, spe.org.uk, March 8, 2021)“As a description of the workings of the modern global financial system and the interrelationship of finance and the real economy, it has no current rival. Not for beginners, but essential reading for market practitioners.” (John Plender, Financial Times, July 12, 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Capital Wars.- 2. Global Money.- 3. Synopsis: A Bigger, More Volatile World.- 4. The Liquidity Model.- 5. Real Exchange Adjustment.- 6. Private Sector (Funding) Liquidity.- 7. The Central Banks: Don't Fight the Fed, Don't Upset the ECB and Don't Mess with the PBoC.- 8. Cross-border Capital Flows.- 9. China and the Emerging Markets.- 10. The Liquidity Transmission Mechanism: Understanding Future Macro-valuation Shifts.- 11. Financial Crises and Safe Assets.- 12. The Financial Silk Road: Globalisation and the Eastwards Shift of Capital.- 13. Measuring Liquidity: The Global Liquidity Indexes.- 14. Conclusion: A High Water Mark?.

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Book SynopsisIn response to the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks have used all available instruments in their monetary policy tool-kit to avoid financial market disruptions and a collapse in real economic activities. These actions have expanded the size of their balance sheets and altered the composition of the asset-side. This edited book highlights how these assets are managed, providing an intellectual and practical contribution to an under-researched field of central bank responsibilities. It first reviews the sources and uses of domestic and international assets and how they complement—or possibly conflict with—the implementation of monetary policy goals. Next, the book examines the asset management mandate in a balance sheet context before turning to the investment decision-making process from strategic and tactical asset allocation to investment strategies, risk management, governance, reporting and control. Finally, it presents new developments in the field of managing assets at central banks. The individual chapters are written by central bankers, academics, and representatives from International Financial Institutions, each representing a particular aspect of the asset management practice.Practical and powerful insights from a hall of fame of investors, central bankers and scholars, are packed into this one volume. If you could have only one book on central bank asset management, this would be it. —Peter R. Fisher, Clinical Professor, Tuck School of Business at DartmouthJacob Bjorheim draws on his long experience in sovereign asset management to pull together a rich collection of insights from a broad range of expertise. Asset management at central banks has evolved and expanded considerably over the past decade. This book is a timely source of information and guidance. —Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of AustraliaCentral bank balance sheets have grown at a tremendous pace over the last decade and a half. Drawing on contributions from scholars and experienced central bankers from around the world, this timely and insightful book sheds light on how central banks are, and should be, managing their growing balance sheets. —Kjell G. Nyborg, Chaired Professor of Finance, University of Zurich, Author of Collateral Frameworks: The Open Secret of Central BanksCentral banks and monetary authorities are charged with, and being held accountable for, managing portfolios of foreign currency assets of unprecedented size. The essays in this admirable book, written by some of the worlds most highly experienced officials, cover the full range of why and how this is currently being done and how new developments are affecting old practices. Interesting conceptually and immensely useful practically. —William White, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, former Head of the Monetary and Economic Department with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECDAn excellent and timely review of modern international reserve management, which ought to be read by everyone working with, or simply interested in, international asset management and finance as well as monetary and economic policy. The spectrum of authors is broad and their combined insight is very valuable. —Tom A. Fearnley, Investment Director, Norwegian Ministry of FinanceWith “Asset Management at Central Banks and Monetary Authorities”, Jacob Bjorheim has achieved an editorial tour de force. The book assembles the insightful views of the leading experts in the field, both from an academic and practitioners’ perspective. It bridges the gap between the macroeconomics of central banks and the financial management of their reserves. A must read to understand how central banks are special in the group of institutional investors. —Eric Bouyé, Head of Asset Allocation and Quantitative Strategies, Treasury Department, The World BankThe balance sheet is a large and important toolbox for any central bank and specifically the foreign exchange reserves constitute one the more powerful of these tools. This book provides excellent insight in the various perspectives of managing reserves at a central bank. —Heidi Elmér, Director of Markets Department, Severiges RiksbankThe world of international reserves has changed since the global financial crisis. In this volume, Jacob Bjorheim has assembled a stellar cast of experts to explain how and what that means for reserves management. With chapter authors like Andrew Ang, Jennifer Johnson-Calari, Robert McCauley, Ravi Menon, Simon Potter and Philip Turner, it is a book that every reserve manager must read. —Eli Remolona, Professor of Finance and Director of Central Banking, Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT SloanJacob Bjorheim has succeeded in bringing together a first-class team of experts, and organising their contributions in an articulated journey from the central banks’ policy mandate to their asset management practices. An indispensable post-crisis update of the subject and a a required reading for anyone professionally involved with central bank’s asset management, or simply curious about a topic benefitting otherwise from limited research. —Louis de Montpellier, Former Global Head, Official Institutions Group, SSGA, and former Deputy Head, Banking Department, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), BaselAt last, a book that shares with a wider audience, deep insight in a unique, challenging and ethical approach of asset management developed and implemented in the secretive world of central banks. If you wonder how to manage funds that stand ready for use at short notice in times of stress then this book is for you. Two features make it such a valuable read and a must-have reference: First, the very comprehensive list of themes covered from a rich diversity of angles. Second, the very impressive list of prominent institutions and authors that have contributed and shared their analysis and practical approaches of the issues presented. What is better than to get the information directly from first-hand practitioners, experts and managers themselves in their own words? —Jean-Pierre Matt, Former Head of Financial Analysis at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and founder of QuanteisThis book holds the promise to become the go-to guide for anyone wishing to learn more about the management of official foreign exchange reserves. Central bankers in particular, but also those providing services to central banks, will find benefit from the broad scope in subject matter and varied perspectives being presented. I am yet to see a compendium on official reserve management with similar reach in subject matter. —Leon Myburgh, Former Head Financial Markets Department, South African Reserve Bank (SARB), PretoriaThis is an immensely timely book at a time when central bank operations, and their balance sheets, remain “larger for longer”. Following the Financial Crisis 10 years ago, and with the Covid-19 Recession about to break, central bank balance sheets are at the forefront of the authorities’ response to economic issues as never before. Yet the management of their now large-scale assets remains a little known and little studied area. The authors of this book combine extensive technical and practical experience, and their observations will fill an important gap in the literature at a critical time. —Freyr Hermannsson, Former Head of Treasury, Central Bank of Iceland, ReykjavíkTrade Review“This excellent book fills a critical gap that has existed since the IMF guidelines were revised. It offers important insights and learning for those interested in the practicalities of asset management, how that is evolving and may continue to change, and the interface between the operation of monetary policy and the financial management of official asset portfolios.” (Graeme Wheeler, Central Banking, centralbanking.com, February 18, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Asset Management at Central Banks and Monetary Authorities.- Chapter 2. Central Banks: Gatekeepers of Monetary Stability and Guardians of Public Interest.- Chapter 3. Larger Central Bank Balance Sheets: A New Normal for Monetary Policy?- Chapter 4. How Countries Manage Large Central Bank Balance Sheets.- Chapter 5. Reserve Accumulation, Sovereign Debt and Exchange Rate Policy.- Chapter 6. The cost of holding foreign exchange reserves.- Chapter 7. Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority: Why do central banks hold domestic and foreign currency assets?- Chapter 8. Safe assets: Made, not just born.- Chapter 9. Expansion and contraction of central bank balance sheets: Implications for commercial banks.- Chapter 10. Management of Canada’s Foreign Exchange Reserves.- Chapter 11. How the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) manages its assets.- Chapter 12. The South African Reserve Bank’s Strategic Asset Allocation Value Chain.- Chapter 13. European Central Bank: The investment decision-making process and its governance.- Chapter 14. Reserves management at Danmarks National Bank: Combining liquidity tiers with an adaptive risk budget.- Chapter 15. The Swiss National Bank’s investment decision-making process from a safe-haven currency perspective.- Chapter 16. The Strategic Asset Allocation Framework of Banco de México.- Chapter 17. Macro risk management in a commodity-dependent economy: The case of the Central Bank of Chile.- Chapter 18. Dynamic Strategic Asset Allocation at the National Bank of Belgium: Why and how to implement it in a central bank.- Chapter 19. Central Bank of Lithuania: Asset allocation in a risk parity framework.- Chapter 20. Good Governance: Principles, Pitfalls and Best Practice.- Chapter 21. Central Bank of Brazil: Investment decision-making in an integrated risk management framework.- Chapter 22. Governance, Risk Management, Reporting, and Control at the Central Bank of Columbia.- Chapter 23. Foreign exchange reserves at the National Bank of Poland: Adequacy, risk-budgets, tranching and financial implications.- Chapter 24. Central Banks as Bankers to Each Other: Overview, Trends, and Future Directions in Global Official Sector Service Provision.- Chapter 25. Modern central bank reserves management: Introduction and overview.- Chapter 26. Bank of Israel: Integrating equities into the foreign exchange reserves.- Chapter 27. Renminbi securities in portfolios of official institutions: A perspective from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.- Chapter 28. Responsible Investment and central bank asset management.- Chapter 29. BlackRock: Reserves Management with Factors and Reference Portfolios.

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This book provides readers with a systematic approach to quantitative investments and bridges the gap between theory and practice, equipping students to more seamlessly enter the world of industry. A successful quantitative investment strategy requires an individual to possess a deep understanding of the financial markets, investment theories and econometric modelings, as well as the ability to program and analyze real-world data sets. In order to connect finance theories and practical industry experience, each chapter begins with a real-world finance case study. The rest of the chapter introduces fundamental insights and theories, and teaches readers to use statistical models and R programming to analyze real-world data, therefore grounding the learning process in application. Additionally, each chapter profiles significant figures in investment and quantitative studies, so that readers can more fully understand the history of the discipline. This volume will be particularly useful to advanced students and practitioners in finance and investments.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies, an area that has been generating considerable research. It begins by providing an introduction to digital finance and the concept of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. It then describes in detail the intrinsic risks involved in cryptocurrencies, an area that, to date, has not been fully documented or investigated. Lastly, it discusses the various types of risk, with a focus on design, operational, market and quantitative risks.Providing insights into the analysis and management of cryptocurrencies, and serving as a starting point for a more in-depth risk analysis, this book will appeal to professionals and researchers interested in familiarizing themselves with the risks in cryptocurrencies, including academics, portfolio managers, risk-managers, quants, financial professionals, regulators, economists, asset managers and traders.Table of Contents- Part I Introduction to Cryptocurrencies. - Blockchain. - Types of Cryptocurrencies. - Part II Risk in Dealing with Cryptocurrencies. - Qualitative Risks. - Quantitative Risks. - Futures and Options on Cryptocurrencies. - Portfolio Management. - Further Related Work. - Part III Summary and Conclusion. - Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet Ihnen eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Analyse des Betafaktors Dieses Buch liefert eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme zum Betafaktor im Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) und greift praktisch alle aus heutiger Sicht relevanten Aspekte des Betafaktors auf. Dabei werden die Methoden der Betabestimmung – insbesondere im Rahmen der Unternehmensbewertung – diskutiert und die Einflüsse der bei der Betaschätzung festzulegenden Parameter sowohl theoretisch analysiert als auch empirisch anhand des deutschen Aktienmarkts untersucht. Eine Auswertung von Bewertungsgutachten und OLG-Beschlüssen bietet Einblicke in die aktuelle rechtsgeprägte Bewertungspraxis. Dieses Buch enthält eine Totalerhebung der deutschsprachigen Literatur zum Betafaktor In diesem Buch werden alle bis Ende 2014 erschienenen deutschsprachigen Fachaufsätze zum Betafaktor vorgestellt und bibliometirsch ausgewertet. Dieser umfangreiche Literaturüberblick bietet den Lesern umfassende Referenzmöglichkeiten. Zudem wird die Geschichte der Unternehmensbewertung seit dem Mittelalter dargestellt, wobei der Fokus auf der Risikoberücksichtigung bzw. dem Kapitalisierungszinssatz liegt. Die Autorin beleuchtet alle Aspekte des Betafaktors detailliert und verständlichDas Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Behandlung des Betafaktors in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Es werden Empfehlungen bezüglich der Bestimmung des Betafaktors ausgesprochen, die theoretisch fundiert und zugleich praxistauglich sind. Zudem werden Diskrepanzen aufgezeigt und interpretiert, die zwischen diesen Empfehlungen und dem Verständnis in der Betafaktor-Literatur bzw. dem Vorgehen in der Praxis bestehen. Unter anderem werden die folgenden Thematiken bearbeitet: Ökonomische Bedeutung des Betafaktors (inkl. Financial Leverage, Operating Leverage, Debt Beta, Total Beta) Ermittlung des Betafaktors aus historischen Renditen (OLS-Schätzung) Praktische Probleme bei der Betaschätzung (z.B. Einfluss der Wahl von Index, Intervall und Schätzzeitraum, zeitliche Stabilität, Heteroskedastizität Alternative Methoden der Betabestimmung und deren Probleme (z.B. Peergroup, Branchenbeta, Fundamental Beta, Implizites Beta, Irrelevanz des t-Tests) Es erfolgt eine umfangreiche Auswertung von Bewertungsgutachten, die im Rahmen eines Squeeze-Out oder eines Beherrschungs- und/oder Gewinnabführungsvertrags erstellt wurden, sowie von obergerichtlichen Entscheidungen bei Spruchverfahren.Table of ContentsHistorische Entwicklung sowie Anlässe und Methoden der Unternehmensbewertung.- Schätzung des Betafaktors aus historischen Renditen.- Alternative Methoden der Betabestimmung.- Empirische Untersuchung des Betafaktors in Bewertungsgutachten und OLG-Beschlüssen.

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Book SynopsisThis reference book provides promising strategies for investing in the promising healthcare and nursing sector of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese healthcare sector is growing steadily, and the Chinese government has recognized that the participation of foreign investors is essential to improve and develop the Chinese healthcare system, especially in metropolitan areas. This opens up opportunities and possibilities for foreign healthcare providers, whose investments are increasingly welcomed and supported by the Chinese government. The book presents ways to make safe and profitable investments in the Chinese healthcare market: from the construction of new hospitals and nursing homes to the introduction of the necessary medical equipment and the acquisition and recruitment of qualified staff. In particular, the legal framework conditions are highlighted.This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Investitionen im chinesischen Gesundheits- und Pflegesektor by Björn Etgen, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to portfolio management and investments. Focusing on four core areas – portfolio management, equities, bonds, and derivatives – it is primarily intended for undergraduate and graduate students alike. However, it will also benefit practitioners working in the fields of financial analysis and portfolio management and professionals who aspire to such professional activities in the financial industry. To ensure its high practical relevance, the book includes a host of case studies and examples from real-world practice, mainly from the German and Swiss financial markets. Additionally, the book shows how to implement the models in Microsoft Excel.Table of ContentsPart 1: Portfolio Management.- Chapter 1. Return.- Chapter 2. Risk.- Chapter 3. Other Investment Characteristics.- Chapter 4. Efficient Risky Portfolios.- Chapter 5. Optimal Portfolio.- Chapter 6 Capital Asset Pricing Model and Fama−french Model.- Chapter 7. Portfolio Management Process.- Part 2: Equity Securities.- Chapter 8 Dividend Discount Model.- Chapter 9 Free Cash Flow Models.- Chapter 10 Multiples.- Part 3: Bonds.- Chapter 11 Bond Price and Yield.- Chapter 12 Duration and Convexity.- Part 4: Derivatives.- Chapter 13 Futures, Forwards, and Swaps.- Chapter 14 Options: Basics and Valuation.- Chapter 15 Option Strategies.

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