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Is wealth solely about money? That is what influencers teach us from the time we are young. But does this bring happiness, or is there more to wealth than meets the eye?

True wealth is multifaceted, but attaining it can be simple. In Hack the Time-Wealth Matrix, finance expert Pat Day demystifies wealth's complexity. Drawing from over three decades in finance, Pat unveils The Wealth Equation, a ground-breaking concept to help you define wealth by balancing risk, time, and what is most valuable to you. Time, our most precious commodity, is a disappearing asset. This book teaches how to preserve, grow, and transfer time wisely. With practicable advice for life's three stages, Learning, Accumulating, and Passing, Hack the Time-Wealth Matrix is your guide for redefining wealth and achieving a life rich in what matters most.

If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others.

In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai--a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Wisdom of Finance--guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance, demystifying it in the process.

Through entertaining case studies, interactive exercises, full-color visuals, and a conversational style that belies the topic, Professor Desai tackles a broad range of topics that will give you the knowledge and skills you need to finally understand how finance works. These include:

• How different financial levers can affect a company's performance
• The different ways in which companies fund their operations and investments
• Why finance is more concerned with cash flow than profits
• How value is created, measured, and maximized
• The importance of capital markets in helping companies grow

Whether you're a student or a manager, an aspiring CFO or an entrepreneur, How Finance Works is the colorful and interactive guide you need to help you start thinking more deeply about the numbers.

First published in 1923, 'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' is the most widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people than years of experience. Among the most compelling and enduring pieces ever written on trading, the new Illustrated Edition brings this story to life like never before.

Although Reminiscences...was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is as timely as last summer's frenzy on the foreign exchange markets.―Worth magazine

The most entertaining book written on investing is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre, first published in 1923.―The Seattle Times

After twenty years and many re-reads, Reminiscences is still one of my all-time favourites.―Kenneth L. Fisher, Forbes

A must-read classic for all investors, whether brand-new or experienced.―William O'Neil, founder and Chairman, Investor's Business Daily

Whilst stock market tomes have come and gone, this remains popular and in print eighty years on.―GQ Magazine

Risk. It can be kryptonite for investors, no matter your investment amount or level of experience. But, like many obstacles to success, risk is a challenge only overcome by facing it head-on.

What if you could attack risk, rather than hide from it? What if there were even a way to leverage it for profit? The first step in investment success is adjusting how you think about risk. In The All Weather Trader, Trendstat Capital founder and Mr. Serenity Tom Basso reveals his philosophy for learning to embrace risk and use it to benefit your investments. You'll learn innovative concepts in extreme diversification, futures trading, and equity exposure, along with insights on how to structure-and customize-your portfolio. With examples from Tom's own experiences and successes, The All Weather Trader is the framework you need to avoid costly decisions, create a comprehensive strategy, and use risk to launch long-lasting success in any financial climate.

Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.

John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge--kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East.

Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues, with their warped sense of morality, created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before--or since.

Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.

Journey through your Life's Complete Financial Arc with Wealth Your Way. Accumulate wealth, achieve the pinnacle of financial independence, and then comfortably spend your wealth as you retire on your own terms.

Financial independence buys you the most valuable asset on the planet-freedom. The freedom to spend your money, and more importantly, your time, however you see fit.

Still, reaching financial independence requires more than mere investing. Unlike other books that try to tell you what to think, Wealth Your Way teaches you how to think about growing your wealth, with real-life examples of the pitfalls you might encounter and strategies to avoid them.

As with most things in life, the more carefully you plan for financial independence, making course corrections along the way, the less you'll need to worry about the outcome. Live your best life today with the satisfaction and comfort of knowing your financial future is in good hands-your own.

Secure your VA disability compensation benefits and finally get what you deserve.

Of roughly 18.5 million veterans, only 6 percent have received their rightful VA disability benefits. Ninety-four percent of you could be leaving thousands-even millions-of dollars in tax-free disability compensation on the table.

In VA Claim Secrets, air force veteran Brian Reese provides a simple blueprint for obtaining the VA disability rating and compensation to which you are legally entitled, even if you've filed before, been denied, given up, or don't know where to start. Perhaps you've filed a claim but received a lower rating than you deserve, or you found the system too difficult to navigate on your own. You'll learn about Brian's SEM Method framework, offering a guide that educates and inspires you to take action. With expert tips, personal insights, and proven strategies, VA Claim Secrets is your secret weapon for reaping the VA disability benefits you've earned for serving our country.

Liberation Technology Press is proud to introduce Bitcoin Options by John Divine. This book is your ultimate guide to navigating the dynamic world of Bitcoin options markets. Dive deep into the revolutionary concept of Bitcoin as a form of energy storage, bridging finance and computer science like never before. Through real-world examples and insightful case studies, John Divine presents a comprehensive guide that empowers readers with practical strategies to thrive in the Bitcoin market. Learn and position yourself effectively amidst volatility and opportunity. Discover the true power of Bitcoin as a decentralized digital commodity, offering a hedge against centralized control and fostering financial freedom and security. Buy this book today!

Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea that even many of the world's finest investors couldn't beat the market in the long run.

The motley crew of nerds--including economist wunderkind Gene Fama, humiliated industry executive Jack Bogle, bull-headed and computer-obsessive John McQuown, and avuncular former WWII submariner Nate Most--succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Passive investing now accounts for more than $20 trillion, equal to the entire gross domestic product of the US, and is today a force reshaping markets, finance and even capitalism itself in myriad subtle but pivotal ways.

Yet even some fans of index funds and ETFs are growing perturbed that their swelling heft is destabilizing markets, wrecking the investment industry and leading to an unwelcome concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands.

In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of an invention Wall Street wishes was never created, bringing to life the characters behind its birth, growth, and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. This engrossing narrative is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand modern finance--and one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time.

In August of 2020, Citibank made one of the worst mistakes in banking history: it accidently sent out almost $900 million of its own funds. Many of the recipients didn't give back the money. Citibank sued. And a federal court ruled that the recipients could keep the funds.

Citibank's error is not surprising. The underlying contributors that led to the mistaken payment permeate the global financial services industry. Manual data entry, decades old technological infrastructure, inadequate training, and systems that can't interact with one another are just a few of the problems that face post-trade processing--the machinery behind financial markets. Unfortunately, years of neglect by regulators and financial institutions themselves has left this infrastructure needlessly complex, astoundingly inefficient, frequently inaccurate, and woefully inadequate for modern financial markets.

Behind the Swap helps explain what's driving the recent series of banking blunders like Barclay's $678 million clerical error, and Citibank's fat-finger Flash Crash that caused an 8% decline in the Swedish stock market. The book also touches on concepts that readily connect to Credit Suisse's $5.5 billion loss on its trades with Archegos.

The problems are easy to see but difficult to admit. For financial institutions, the current system costs billions of dollars each year in labor, systems maintenance, and lost funds. For regulators, the current system precludes the ability to track systemic risk. It also artificially inflates the stability of the global financial system. For lawyers and prosecutors, the current system allows ample opportunity for unlawful misconduct such as rogue trading and fraud.

Cryptocurrency. DeFi. Web3. Fintech. The Metaverse. AI. The future of money is here.

The world of money is rapidly changing, but what does it all really mean? Exploring key developments such as blockchain, DeFi, AI and the metaverse, the book brings these technical topics to vivid life via narrative deep dives into selected founders and their companies.

Spanning multiple geographies from London to Lagos, via Ahmedabad, Dubai, Hong Kong, Karachi and more, Future Money pulls together the story how money is changing in the internet era. Written in jargon-free language, this book clearly provides an understanding of new technologies, showcases the democratization of financial access and presents a vision of the digital future of money, finance and culture.

Delivered by one of the world's leading analysts on fintech, Web3 and innovations in finance, this is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the developments, challenges and opportunities of fintech, crypto, Web3 and beyond.

Risk. It can be kryptonite for investors, no matter your investment amount or level of experience. But, like many obstacles to success, risk is a challenge only overcome by facing it head-on.

What if you could attack risk, rather than hide from it? What if there were even a way to leverage it for profit? The first step in investment success is adjusting how you think about risk. In The All Weather Trader, Trendstat Capital founder and Mr. Serenity Tom Basso reveals his philosophy for learning to embrace risk and use it to benefit your investments. You'll learn innovative concepts in extreme diversification, futures trading, and equity exposure, along with insights on how to structure-and customize-your portfolio. With examples from Tom's own experiences and successes, The All Weather Trader is the framework you need to avoid costly decisions, create a comprehensive strategy, and use risk to launch long-lasting success in any financial climate.

This book presents a high-quality contribution to the applications of modern financial algorithms for liquidity risk management and its practical uses and applications to investable portfolios and mutual funds. It brings together the latest thinking on the emerging topic of contemporary liquidity risk estimations and management and includes principles, reviews, examples, and concrete financial markets applications to trading and investment portfolios. Furthermore, it explores research directions of liquidity risk management using modified Liquidity-Adjusted Value-at-Risk (L-VaR) models with the application of machine learning optimization algorithms. The book presents specific self-contained use-cases throughout, showing practical applications of the concepts discussed and providing further directions for researchers and financial markets participants. The book draws practical insights from personal experiences and applies specific examples (with the use of real-world case studies and analysis) about how the modeling techniques and machine learning optimization algorithms could address specific theoretical and practical issues of liquidity risk management and coherent asset allocation in trading and investment portfolios. It will be of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners of risk management, portfolio management, and machine learning.

BlackRock

Lo que revela, lo que construye con pequeños toques impresionistas, es el ascenso al poder de Larry Fink, el amo del nuevo gigante financiero, BlackRock. Cuando cierro los ojos y pienso en Larry y BlackRock ahora, la imagen que me viene a la mente es la de un Godzilla que emerge de la megacrisis de 2008 y avanza hacia nosotros. Lo que hace que este libro sea aún más distintivo reside en su génesis. Nunca debería haber existido. Este objeto cómico y aterrador que tienes en tus manos se suponía que era un prefacio, pero las cosas salieron mal. Me convertí en un testigo impotente de lo que sentí como un intento de censura.

Es delicado para mí utilizar esta palabra, pero al final, eso es lo que fue. Y eso es lo que motivó la escritura de este objeto improbable. No me detendré aquí en los hechos y su secuencia: ese no es realmente el papel de un prefacio. El libro lo cuenta.

Intelligent Credit Scoring presents a business-oriented process for the development and implementation of risk prediction scorecards. The credit scorecard is a powerful tool for measuring the risk of individual borrowers, gauging overall risk exposure and developing analytically driven, risk-adjusted strategies for existing customers. In the past 10 years, hundreds of banks worldwide have brought the process of developing credit scoring models in-house, while 'credit scores' have become a frequent topic of conversation in many countries where bureau scores are used broadly. In the United States, the 'FICO' and 'Vantage' scores continue to be discussed by borrowers hoping to get a better deal from the banks. While knowledge of the statistical processes around building credit scorecards is common, the business context and intelligence that allows you to build better, more robust, and ultimately more intelligent, scorecards is not. As the follow-up to Credit Risk Scorecards, this updated second edition includes new detailed examples, new real-world stories, new diagrams, deeper discussion on topics including WOE curves, the latest trends that expand scorecard functionality and new in-depth analyses in every chapter. Expanded coverage includes new chapters on defining infrastructure for in-house credit scoring, validation, governance, and Big Data.

Black box scorecard development by isolated teams has resulted in statistically valid, but operationally unacceptable models at times. This book shows you how various personas in a financial institution can work together to create more intelligent scorecards, to avoid disasters, and facilitate better decision making. Key items discussed include:

• Following a clear step by step framework for development, implementation, and beyond
• Lots of real life tips and hints on how to detect and fix data issues
• How to realise bigger ROI from credit scoring using internal resources
• Explore new trends and advances to get more out of the scorecard

Credit scoring is now a very common tool used by banks, Telcos, and others around the world for loan origination, decisioning, credit limit management, collections management, cross selling, and many other decisions. Intelligent Credit Scoring helps you organise resources, streamline processes, and build more intelligent scorecards that will help achieve better results.

Each question is carefully crafted to mirror the format and difficulty level of the actual CFE exam, ensuring you're fully prepared on exam day. The detailed answers provide in-depth explanations, helping you understand the concepts behind the questions.

Whether you're just starting your CFE exam preparation or looking for a final review, this book is your key to success. Ace The CFE Exam: Comprehensive Practice Questions with Detailed Answers is the ultimate resource for aspiring Certified Fraud Examiners

With the rise of emerging venture capital, there are thousands of new fund managers building their businesses without resources or direction. In The Venture Fund Blueprint: How to Access Capital, Achieve Launch, and Actualize Growth, Shea Tate-Di Donna and Kaego Ogbechie Rust compile their extensive fund experience to help you launch a venture fund focused on growth, returns, and lasting value.

The Venture Fund Blueprint uncovers the cloaked aspects of venture capital and speaks to a diversity of intellects. As you establish your fund, Shea and Kaego's insights on vision and strategy, operations, fundraising, legal requirements, and new fund formation will prove invaluable to your success.

Operational risk managers in the financial services industry must have a solid understanding of the best practices for the implementation of an effective risk management framework and the management of operational risk. Practices for Operational Risk Management is designed to deliver a deep, practical understanding of operational risk management, risk management frameworks and measurement methodologies in financial institutions. Written by a practitioner author team from major financial institutions around the globe, current and new operational risk managers will find this primer a valuable resource.