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A detailed look at equity valuation and portfolio management Equity valuation is a method of valuing stock prices using fundamental analysis to determine the worth of the business and discover investment opportunities. In Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management Frank J. Fabozzi and Harry M. Markowitz explain the process of equity valuation, provide the necessary mathematical background, and discuss classic and new portfolio strategies for investment managers. Divided into two comprehensive parts, this reliable resource focuses on valuation and portfolio strategies related to equities. Discusses both fundamental and new techniques for valuation and strategies Fabozzi and Markowitz are experts in the fields of investment management and economics Includes end of chapter bullet point summaries, key chapter take-aways, and study questions Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management will put you in a better position to excel at this challenging endeavor.

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You have too many projects, and firefighting and multitasking are keeping you from finishing any of them. You need to manage your project portfolio. This fully updated and expanded bestseller arms you with agile and lean ways to collect all your work and decide which projects you should do first, second, and never. See how to tie your work to your organization's mission and show your managers, your board, and your staff what you can accomplish and when. Picture the work you have, and make those difficult decisions, ensuring that all your strength is focused where it needs to be. All your projects and programs make up your portfolio. But how much time do you actually spend on your projects, and how much time do you spend on emergency fire drills or waste through multitasking? This book gives you insightful ways to rank all the projects you're working on and figure out the right staffing and schedule so projects get finished faster. The trick is adopting lean and agile approaches to projects, whether they're software projects, projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on chunks of functionality from other suppliers. Find out how to define the mission of your team, group, or department, with none of the buzzwords that normally accompany a mission statement. Armed with the work and the mission, you'll manage your portfolio better and make those decisions that define the true leaders in the organization. With this expanded second edition, discover how to scale project portfolio management from one team to the entire enterprise, and integrate Cost of Delay when ranking projects. Additional Kanban views provide even more ways to visualize your portfolio.

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Learn to edit, organize, and present your best work and become a better photographer in the process! Once a photographer has learned the fundamental techniques of photography the basics of exposure, composition, and focus their work often improves over the course of a few months or years. The world is full of wonders to photograph, and photographers can be pulled in many directions, excitedly chasing the light and the moment. This approach can certainly yield wonderful photographs, but over time the photographer s progress often begins to slow, and eventually, it can stop altogether. The reason for this is simple: creativity begins with image-making, but true progress comes with learning to edit and organize your work in ways that reflect your unique style and perspective, ways that offer you insight into how you can improve your work moving forward. In short, the key to becoming the best photographer you can be is to create an ongoing portfolio (or multiple portfolios) of your work. Based on an eight-week course taught by renowned photographer and author William Neill, The Photographer s Portfolio Development Workshop provides the tools and skills you need in order to create a methodology that allows you to create a tightly edited portfolio of work, no matter your end goal: a box of prints, a book, an online presentation or website, or even a gallery exhibit. A portfolio is simply a collection of photographs with a consistent theme and consistent quality. In developing such a body of work, you will learn what your specific passions are, find focus for your work, and begin the iterative process of creating better and better photographs over time. By constantly working within a feedback loop where you carefully assess and edit your images, note and learn from mistakes, then go out and create more photographs you ll develop a portfolio that is constantly gaining in strength, quality, and impact. It s no surprise that you ll also become a much better photographer.

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For most of the past 50 years the simplest investment solution was often the best. A balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds, combined with a traditional pension, provided most investors with a comfortable retirement. Unfortunately, this approach is no longer likely to work. Retirement is longer, private company pensions are a thing of the past, and world economies look set for years of low growth. Investment advisors need a new plan and a new approach to help their clients organise their investments. Asset allocation is the art of combining different investments to build a portfolio aligned with the investor's objectives and respectful of your limitations. More than picking the right stock or owning a particular bond, the allocation to these assets is the ultimate driver of investment returns. Despite the importance of asset allocation, there is little agreement on how to do it. BlackRock's Russ Koesterich addresses this problem by providing a practical, step-by-step approach to building a portfolio consistent with the investor's investment goals. Starting with setting objectives, he covers all parts of the process, including assessing risk tolerance, defining a set of assets, generating return assumptions and combining the assets in a risk-controlled manner.

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The book takes the reader through all the major steps of fashion portfolio creation. It features the main components of the design process from the identification of inspiration sources and fashion trends research to conceptualization of a complete fashion collection. The topics covered include mood/fabric boards development, creation of original and innovative textiles as well as fashion silhouettes and garment details development through extensive research, quick design sketching, fabric manipulation, and draping experimentation. Great original designs and illustrations by the author as well as design sketch samples by established designers are provided throughout. There are samples of sketchbooks from professional and emerging fashion artists. The book provides some insight from established fashion and accessories designers on the highlights and challenges of the creative process. It is a great professional reference for techniques in the portfolio development. A beautiful but practical book that provides useful techniques and helps the reader get inside the mind of the designer.

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For many years asset management was considered to be a marginal activity, but today, it is central to the development of financial industry throughout the world. Asset management's transition from an "art and craft" to an industry has inevitably called integrated business models into question, favouring specialisation strategies based on cost optimisation and learning curve objectives. This book connects each of these major categories of techniques and practices to the unifying and seminal conceptual developments of modern portfolio theory. In these bear market times, performance evaluation of portfolio managers is of central focus. This book will be one of very few on the market and is by a respected member of the profession. Allows the professionals, whether managers or investors, to take a step back and clearly separate true innovations from mere improvements to well-known, existing techniques Puts into context the importance of innovations with regard to the fundamental portfolio management questions, which are the evolution of the investment management process, risk analysis and performance measurement Takes the explicit or implicit assumptions contained in the promoted tools into account and, by so doing, evaluate the inherent interpretative or practical limits

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Learn to manage your money to maximize your earning potential with Reilly/Brown/Leeds' INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT, 11th Edition. Extremely reader friendly in a succinct 18 chapters, this text equips you with a solid understanding of investment instruments, capital markets, behavioral finance, hedge funds, international investing and much more. Real-world examples and hands-on applications bring chapter concepts to life as you learn to use the same tools as investment professionals. The 11th edition's unparalleled international coverage provides specific information on non-U.S. markets, instruments, conventions and techniques. New detailed discussions explain the impact of changes in both technology and regulations on global security markets. In addition, three chapters are devoted to derivatives securities--which are now standard investment instruments.

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Lead change through strategic alignment of project and process performance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization presents a clear framework for your organization to complete impactful strategic projects. Providing executive-level guidance to build a powerful and efficient process from initial adoption to portfolio alignment, this essential resource contains case studies from small to global multinational organizations, arming you with the insights to ensure your strategic projects are given the resources they need to deliver business impact. This important guide Shows executives how to align their projects and processes with their business strategy for compelling competitive advantage Provides cases from best in class organizations, showing how they were able to achieve results by using processes outlined in the book Reveals how technology is the key to developing new collaborative platforms and innovative work management environments that have not been possible until now Defines a framework for assessing project portfolio management competence within your organization and driving momentum for compelling improvements Explores how to go beyond project portfolio management to a holistic work management system Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization offers the practical recommendations, guidance, and real world insights you need to immediately begin driving better project management strategy.

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Realist painter and former comic book artist Vincent Giarrano is well known for his urban portraits of contemporary women, and intimate interiors of New York City. Vincent Giarrano Portfolio Notecards from Galison feature 4 of the artist’s paintings. Galison Portfolio Notes are packaged in a gifty folding box with two storage pockets containing 3 each of 4 card designs for a total of 12 notecards and 12 envelopes.

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The bank loan market has increased dramatically in recent years and is now viewed by some as a distinct asset class. This comprehensive book covers the structure of the market, secondary market in trading practices, and how to manage a bank loan portfolio.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Manuals,143Siguiendo el símil de una carrera atlética como eje vertebrador de la obra (punto de partida, trayecto y meta) el libro presenta todos los elementos necesarios para conocer en profundidad el sistema de seguimiento y evaluación del portfolio electrónico. Del compromiso social por asegurar un aprendizaje satisfactorio a lo largo del ciclo vital en el marco de unas prácticas educativas ajustadas nace la necesidad de desarrollar un sistema virtual de seguimiento del aprendizaje que permita evidenciar las competencias consolidadas y también las áreas de mejora a través de un aprendizaje reflexivo basado en una evaluación autónoma. En los últimos años hemos asistido a la eclosión del portfolio a nivel educativo internacional pero su versión electrónica está menos desarrollada, sobre todo por lo que concierne a un aprendizaje de habilidades de alto nivel cognitivo, por lo que parece que se precisa una revisión sistemática de las propuestas e

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Express your inner thoughts to others with this beautiful and thoughtful collection of note cards in a keepsake portfolio with a ribbon tie. With gold foil accents throughout, this card set features five beautiful designs, each with a different phrase of cultivating an inner world connection. Coordinating envelopes and envelope seals included.

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Landing a job in graphic design or multimedia starts with the creation of a portfolio that showcases a student's best work. With sample portfolios, interviews with leaders in graphic design and advertising industries, and step-by-step instruction for creating professional print and digital portfolios, this book helps students successfully transition from design student to design professional. Now fully updated, it is the only guide to creating job-winning print-based and digital portfolios specifically for graphic designers.

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This commemorative portfolio displays all the 100 pictures awarded in the 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, together with the stories of what they reveal and how they were created. Representing the work of photographers worldwide, they illustrate both the beauty and drama of the natural world and our conflicted relationship with it. Chosen by an international panel of judges from around 50,000 entries, the images are the work of photographers from dozens of countries and represent a worldwide range of styles and ways of seeing nature. You will find a rich variety of subjects, from wild regions, remarkable behaviour and portraits of creatures you may never have seen before, to reportage of vitally important ethical and environmental issues. Adding depth are the background stories – not just about how the pictures were made and the equipment used but also information about the subjects and why the photographers chose them.

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A comprehensive modern introduction to risk and portfolio management for quantitatively adept advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who will become practitioners in the field of quantitative finance. With a focus on real-world application, but providing a background in academic theory, this text builds a firm foundation of rigorous but practical knowledge. Extensive live data and Python code are provided as online supplements, allowing a thorough understanding of how to manage risk and portfolios in practice. With its detailed examination of how mathematical techniques are applied to finance, this is the ideal textbook for giving students with a background in engineering, mathematics or physics a route into the field of quantitative finance.

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This commemorative portfolio displays the gallery of all the 100 pictures awarded in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, together with the stories of what they reveal and how they were created. Representing the work of photographers worldwide, they illustrate both the beauty and drama of the natural world and our conflicted relationship with it. Chosen by an international panel of judges from around 50,000 entries, the images are the work of photographers from dozens of countries and represent a worldwide range of styles and ways of seeing nature. You will find a rich variety of subjects, from wild regions, remarkable behaviour and portraits of creatures you may never have seen before, to reportage of vitally important ethical and environmental issues. Adding depth are the background stories - not just about how the pictures were made and the equipment used but also information about the subjects and why the photographers chose them.

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Outdoor Photographer of the Year presents a stunning collection of the winning, commended and shortlisted photographs from the 2016 Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition. Featuring over 150 winning, commended and selected images from entrants based all around the world, it captures the magnificent diversity of our planet. The annual competition, organized by Outdoor Photography magazine and now in its sixth year, last year received over 12,000 entries from more than 35 countries. Judged by some of the most respected names in the outdoor photography community, the contest attracts and curates the most inspiring images in adventure, travel, landscape, wildlife and nature. This year's winner will be given the opportunity to photograph the 2017 Fjallraven Polar Expedition, a 300-kilometre dog-sled adventure across the Arctic, through some of the world's wildest and most beautiful scenery. The book is divided into the eight categories of the competition, including At the Water's Edge, Wildlife Insight, Live the Adventure and Spirit of Travel.A breathtaking variety of images is accompanied by detailed captions and technical information, creating a collection of extreme environments and exceptional photography that will inspire outdoor photographers and adventure enthusiasts alike. Outdoor Photographer of the Year will be launched alongside the awards ceremony and exhibition at The Photography Show at the NEC from 18 to 21 March 2017. The images will be showcased through international media and online coverage, alongside the social media of Outdoor Photography magazine, The Photography Show and competition sponsors Fjallraven.

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For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill, and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures features all the winning photographs from the 2018 competition. The collection represents the work of many international photographers, both professionals and amateurs. The photographs are chosen by an international jury for their artistic merit and originality, from categories that represent a diversity of natural subjects. The range of styles is diverse, as is the genre of photography, including action, macro, underwater, landscape, or environmental reportage. Each photograph is accompanied by an extended caption and there is an introduction by one of the world's most respected nature photographers.

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In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many will agree that it is time for a fresh approach to portfolio management. The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management provides practical investment advice for building a robust, diversified portfolio. Written by a high-profile investment adviser, this book reveals a practical portfolio management framework and new approach to portfolio construction based on four key market forces: macro, fundamental, technical, and behavioural. It is an insight that takes the focus off numbers, looking instead at the role of risk and behavior in finance. As we have seen with the recent finance meltdown, traditional portfolio management techniques are flawed. Investors need to understand those flaws and learn how to incorporate risk management and behavioral finance into their asset management strategies. With a foreword by industry leader Francois-Serge L'habitant, this is your one-stop guide, with new ways for you to manage, grow and preserve your investment portfolio, even in uncertain markets.

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Companion workbook to the CFA Institute's Investments: Principles of Portfolio and Equity Analysis Workbook In a world of specialization, no other profession likely requires such broad, yet in-depth knowledge than that of financial analyst. Investments: Principles of Portfolio and Equity Analysis provides the broad-based knowledge professionals and students of the markets need to manage money and maximize return. This companion Workbook, also edited by experts from the CFA Institute, allows busy professionals to gain a stronger understanding of core investment topics. The Workbook Includes learning outcomes, summaries, and problems and solutions sections for each chapter in the main book Blends theory and practice Provides access to the highest quality information on investment analysis and portfolio management With Investments: Analysis and Portfolio Management Workbook, busy professionals can reinforce what they've learned in reading Investments, while doing so at their own pace.

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Includes six Blizzard 30th Anniversary Pin Portfolio Pages and six backing boards. Perfect to display and keep your enamel pin collection!Enamel pin pages for displaying and organizing your collection Pages fit any standard 3 ring binder! Collect and display your Blizzard pins!

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Buying this book could be the smartest investment you make thisseason. If that sounds like a bold claim, just take a look at thelist of contributors. In it you'll find the names of twenty-nine ofthe world's foremost experts in asset allocation. Over the courseof twenty chapters, these accomplished institutional investors,academics, analysts, and traders school you in all of the hottestnew portfolio management techniques now in use around theglobe. Not another abstruse discourse on the theoretical pros and cons ofasset allocation, Global Asset Allocation is a working,nuts-and-bolts guide for institutional investors. It outfits youwith a set of versatile new tools and techniques designed to solvereal-world problems and guide your portfolio managementdecision-making. While broad theoretical considerations are given their due, thelion's share of this book's coverage is commanded by cutting-edgetechnical issues such as mean variance optimization, allocatingbetween styles of equity management, optimal fixed incomeportfolios, asset/liability forecasting, the critical time horizon,target asset allocation, and chaos theory. In addition to all of the traditional classes of asset allocations,Global Asset Allocation explores a number of new and emerginginvestment horizons. Foremost among these is "the ultimateinvestment frontier," international markets, to which a sizeableportion of the book (all of Part Two) is devoted. You'll findin-depth discussions of the qualitative and quantitative aspects ofglobal asset allocation, in which various experts describe thelatest global asset allocation models, optimization methods,forecasting techniques, global bond and currency managementstrategies, risk and return analysis in country-to-countryallocation strategies, active and passive management portfoliostrategies, and much more. Offering world-class strategies for managing global portfolios,Global Asset Allocation is an essential resource for corporatefinance professionals, pension plan sponsors, analysts, andportfolio managers looking to expand their repertoire of financialmanagement skills. From asset liability forecasting and target asset allocation, tocritical time horizon and implementing overlay strategies, thisgroundbreaking new guide educates institutional investors instate-of-the-art portfolio management strategies guaranteed tominimize risk while maximizing returns. Bringing you the combinedinsights and expertise of twenty-nine prominent investment expertsfrom around the world, Global Asset Allocation is a workinghandbook, designed to guide your portfolio managementdecision-making and help you to solve real-world problems. * The latest asset allocation models, optimization methods, andforecasting techniques, including passive and active portfoliostrategies * Includes six major chapters on global asset allocation, includingcurrency management and emerging market investing Traders, portfolio managers...investment professionals of everyilk: read this book, and use the versatile new strategies, tools,and techniques it describes to give your investment skills arazor-sharp, winning edge.

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Die Finanzmärkte stehen spätestens seit dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine ganz im Zeichen inflationärer Tendenzen. Vor allem die Reaktionen der Zentralbanken führen nun dazu, dass der zentrale Parameter des globalen Finanzmarktes starken Änderungen unterworfen wird: der risikolose Zins. Dieser beeinflusst nicht nur Bewertungsmodelle, Risikoberechnungen und künftige Kapitalflüsse im Allgemeinen. Er beeinflusst auch direkt den Marktwert aller gehandelten Finanzinstrumente, inklusive aller Arten von Sachwerten, Kryptowährungen oder Kunstobjekte. Zunehmende Marktverwerfungen und nach wie vor niedrige Risikoprämien in traditionellen Marktsegmenten sprechen für alternative Risikoprämien, die vor allem mit Hilfe von aktiven Managementmethoden vereinnahmt werden können. Hier haben sich neue Möglichkeiten entwickelt, denen in Zukunft ein breiterer Raum im Portfolio institutioneller Investoren eingeräumt werden sollte. Jochen Felsenheimer zeigt, wie die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre an den Grundpfeilern der Portfoliotheorie rütteln. Die Aktivität der Notenbanken an den Anleihemärkten lässt den Schluss zu, dass die dominanten Investoren nicht nach Risiko-Return-Optimierung streben. Konzertierte Aktionen, wie zum Beispiel bei der GameStop-Aktie wiederum sprechen gegen die Annahme der Informationseffizienz und der Siegeszug passiver Investmentanbieter lässt vermuten, dass die Struktur der Finanzmärkte Oligopol-artige Formen annimmt. Jochen Felsenheimer stellt die Frage: Wenn also die Grundannahmen der Portfoliotheorie angesichts der jüngsten Entwicklungen als obsolet angesehen werden müssen, müssen nicht auch die klassischen Portfoliokonzepte in Frage gestellt werden? In diesem Umfeld entfällt die ökonomische Rechtfertigung für passive Indexinvestments, die dominierende Anlagestrategie der letzten Dekade. Und es spricht für die Notwendigkeit alternativer Methoden zur Bewertung von Investments und zur Konstruktion effizienter Portfolien. Das beginnt mit neuen Konzepten hinsichtlich der Risiko- und Return-Parameter und endet mit der Frage nach der Korrelation verschiedener Investments. In jedem Fall bedeutet es ein Ende der klassischen Portfoliotheorie zugunsten alternativer Ansätze.

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You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you. Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective "rules of thumb" that require little effort to implement and understand. At the same time, the book shows how to implement sophisticated techniques in order to meet the challenges a successful investor faces as his or her strategy grows in size and complexity. Advanced Portfolio Management also contains more advanced material and a quantitative appendix, which benefit quantitative researchers who are members of fundamental teams. You will learn how to: Separate stock-specific return drivers from the investment environment’s return drivers Understand current investment themes Size your cash positions based on Your investment ideas Understand your performance Measure and decompose risk Hedge the risk you don’t want Use diversification to your advantage Manage losses and control tail risk Set your leverage Author Giuseppe A. Paleologo has consulted, collaborated, taught, and drank strong wine with some of the best stock-pickers in the world; he has traded tens of billions of dollars hedging and optimizing their books and has helped them navigate through big drawdowns and even bigger recoveries. Whether or not you have access to risk models or advanced mathematical background, you will benefit from the techniques and the insights contained in the book—and won't find them covered anywhere else.

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A brand new poster portfolio of fan-favorite artist Peach Momoko's cover art, from the comic based on the epic video game Horizon Zero Dawn. Peach Momoko's incredible cover art for the comic series of Horizon Zero Dawn is now collected into a unique portfolio. Each cover is specially designed as a pull-out poster, including never-before-seen artwork! Horizon: a far-future Earth full of epic natural beauty and forgotten ruins, where awe-inspiring, animal-like machines are the dominant species and humans struggle to survive in pre-industrial tribes.

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Each year the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is seen by millions through a global tour and international media coverage. Portfolio 30 displays the full collection of 100 images awarded in the 2020 competition. Selected by an international jury for their artistic merit and originality from more than 40,000 entries, they represent the work of almost 100 nationalities. Displaying different styles, techniques, and ways of seeing, the collection is both a showcase for photographers who specialize in documenting the natural world and a celebration of nature.

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The learning portfolio is a powerful complement to traditional measures of student achievement and a widely diverse method of recording intellectual growth. This second edition of this important book offers new samples of print and electronic learning portfolios. An academic understanding of and rationale for learning portfolios and practical information that can be customized. Offers a review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support assessment and collaboration. Includes revised sample assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluation rubrics, and other material for developing print and electronic portfolios.

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Business sustainability is the management of environmental, social, and financial demands to ensure responsible, ethical, and ongoing success. Businesses appear to have not only bought into integrating sustainability into their business plans, but have started profiting from it. This book helps project, program, and portfolio managers to integrate sustainability thinking into their projects. It contains tools that enable you to baseline present sustainability efforts and analyze the gaps between the baseline and the strategy.In Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel, the authors present advice on how enterprises can attain higher levels of sustainability and sustained project success. The book introduces a new tool called the Sustainability WheelTM that tells you where you are and what you need to improve. The Sustainability Wheel identifies six interrelated dimensions of sustainability integration: Respect – the sustainability philosophy of the organization Reflect – how that philosophy is conveyed internally Connect – how external stakeholders view the organization Detect – how the organization identifies, analyzes, and responds to sustainability threats Reject – how the organization eliminates inefficiency and waste Project – how the organization identifies, develops, and measures opportunities and converts them to projects and programs aligned with its central mission The book contains a set of questions designed to measure your organization’s sustainability in each dimension. Armed with this valuable feedback, you can determine priorities for sustainability improvement, validate that present sustainability efforts are within your organization’s mission/vision, and provide a mechanism to integrate sustainability into everyday operations. This can lead your organization to key benefits such as improved innovation, reduced waste, higher morale, and simply better-executed projects that are more fully in line with the enterprise goals.Watch a video about the book.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfPSPvCg6QY

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A comprehensive guide to project management and its interaction with other management systems and strategies The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will enable professionals to successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in the broader theory and practice of managing projects. This first book in the series, The Wiley Guide to Project, Program & Portfolio Management, is based on the "meta" level of management, which, simply stated, asserts that project management must be integrated throughout an organization in order to achieve its full potential to enhance the bottom line. This book will show you how to fully understand and exploit the strategic management of projects, portfolios, and program management and their linkage with context and strategy in other concepts and processes, such as quality management, concurrent engineering, just-in-time delivery, systems management and engineering, teams, and statistical quality control. Featuring contributions from experts all around the world, this invaluable resource book offers authoritative project management applications for industry, service businesses, and government agencies. Complete your understanding of project management with these other books in The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects series: * The Wiley Guide to Project Control * The Wiley Guide to Project Organization & Project Management Competencies * The Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement Management

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A proven way to put together a portfolio that enhances performance and reduces risk Professor Craig Israelsen of Brigham Young University is an important voice in the area of asset allocation. The reason? He keeps things simple. Now, in 7Twelve, he shows you how to do the same, and demonstrates how his approach to investing can help you grow your money as well as protect it. 7Twelve outlines a multi-asset balanced portfolio that is a logical starting point when assembling a portfolio-either as the blueprint for the entire portfolio or as a significant building block. Page by page, he will show you how to create a balanced portfolio utilizing multiple asset classes to enhance performance and reduce risk. Discusses how the 7Twelve portfolio includes seven core asset classes and utilizes twelve specific mutual funds or exchange traded funds Details the tax efficiency of this specific investment approach Shows you how to use the 7Twelve portfolio as a pre-retirement accumulation portfolio or a post-retirement distribution portfolio If you want to build a well-balanced, multi-asset portfolio, 7Twelve is the book for you.

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Includes six Blizzard 30th Anniversary print portfolio pages (holds twelve 8" x 10" prints).Six portfolio pages for displaying and organizing your 8"x10" print collection.Pages fit any standard 3 ring binder!Collect and display your Blizzard prints!

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A must have text for risk modelling and portfolio optimization using R. This book introduces the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, and provides a plethora of R code examples that enable the reader to replicate the results featured throughout the book. This edition has been extensively revised to include new topics on risk surfaces and probabilistic utility optimization as well as an extended introduction to R language. Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R: Demonstrates techniques in modelling financial risks and applying portfolio optimization techniques as well as recent advances in the field. Introduces stylized facts, loss function and risk measures, conditional and unconditional modelling of risk; extreme value theory, generalized hyperbolic distribution, volatility modelling and concepts for capturing dependencies. Explores portfolio risk concepts and optimization with risk constraints. Is accompanied by a supporting website featuring examples and case studies in R. Includes updated list of R packages for enabling the reader to replicate the results in the book. Graduate and postgraduate students in finance, economics, risk management as well as practitioners in finance and portfolio optimization will find this book beneficial. It also serves well as an accompanying text in computer-lab classes and is therefore suitable for self-study.

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This 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.

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Covers the hottest topic in investment for multitrillion pension market and institutional investors Institutional investors and fund managers understand they must take risks to generate superior investment returns, but the question is how much. Enter the concept of risk budgeting, using quantitative risks measurements, including VaR, to solve the problem. VaR, or value at risk, is a concept first introduced by bank dealers to establish parameters for their market short-term risk exposure. This book introduces VaR, extreme VaR, and stress-testing risk measurement techniques to major institutional investors, and shows them how they can implement formal risk budgeting to more efficiently manage their investment portfolios. Risk Budgeting is the most sophisticated and advanced read on the subject out there in the market.

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A collection of essays, reviews, lectures and articles spanning the career of Kevin Crossley-Holland, highlighting his position as the pre-eminent English writer of Myth and legend.

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