Authors:Reed Karen, Alpha Group,
Publisher: Alpha
Keywords: woodworking, guide, idiot, complete
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-04-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0028632370
ISBN-13: 9780028632377

From learning about the right tools for the right jobs to looking at a plan and beginning your own project, "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Woodworking" teaches the novice woodworker all there is to know about this wonderful hobby. This step-by-step book takes you through the workshop, whether it’s a shed in the backyard or a three-foot space in a one-bedroom apartment, showing you how to create beautiful pieces of furniture and decorative items with the right tools. You’ll learn how to set up a workspace, buy hand and power tools, set goals within a realistic budget, work

Author: John M. Longo
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: understanding, investment, performance, generating, framework, fund, alpha, hedge
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2009-03-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 9812834656
ISBN-13: 9789812834652

Hedge funds are perhaps the hottest topic in finance today, but little material of substance to date has been written on the topic. Most books focus on how to set up a hedge fund and the basic strategies, while few to none focus on what matters most: generating and understanding investment performance. This book takes an exclusive look at the latter, including an analysis of the areas that are most likely to generate strong investment returns -- namely, the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The book will be invaluable to not only financial professionals, but anyone intereste

Author: Richard Tortoriello
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: finance, investing, mcgraw, alpha, strategies, achieving, quantitative
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0071549846
ISBN-13: 9780071549844

Alpha, higher-than-expected returns generated by an investment strategy, is the holy grail of the investment world. Achieve alpha, and you’ve beaten the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha was borne from equity analyst Richard Tortoriello’s efforts to create a series of quantitative stock selection models for his company, Standard & Poor’s, and produce a road map of the market from a quantitative point of view. With this practical guide, you will gain an effective instrument that can be used to improve your investment process, whether

Author: Angelo Calvello
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: change, wiley, finance, climate, investors, alpha, institutional, environmental
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2009-11-02
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470290625
ISBN-13: 9780470290620

The definitive guide to how institutional investors should approach the risks and opportunities associated with climate change Environmental Alpha provides institutional investors with the comprehensive framework they need to assess the risks and investment opportunities tied to climate change. Climate change will present institutional investors with some of the most important risks and opportunities they will face for generations to come. Climate change has the potential to affect many sectors in radically different degrees over time, and institutional investors need to have a thoroug

Authors:Karon Karter, Guy Mezger, Alpha Group,
Publisher: Alpha
Keywords: kickboxing, guide, idiot, complete
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-02-18
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0028631757
ISBN-13: 9780028631752

Authors:Sabrina Callin,  Bill Gro,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: need, wiley, finance, really, investors, alpha, theory, practice, portable
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2008-04-04
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0470118083
ISBN-13: 9780470118085

As an original innovator of the portable alpha concept, PIMCO has been managing an increasing number of different portable alpha strategies for investors since 1986. And now, with Portable Alpha Theory and Practice, the PIMCO team shares their extensive experiences with you. Filled with in-depth insights and expert guidance, this reliable resource provides an informative look at portable alpha and key related concepts, as well as detailed discussion on the many ways it can be applied in real-world situations.

Author: Michael Reinhardt
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cpu, micron, soi, technology, alpha, reuse, layout, modification, including, design, automatic
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402070918
ISBN-13: 9781402070914

Comprehensive reference work on Automatic Layout Modification which wll be valuable when taking courses at universities, and to CAD and circuit engineers and engineering managers.