ilość książek w kategorii: 1264
Broker Executive
ISBN: 9780989312820 / Angielski / Twarda / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broker Executive is a strategic guidebook for business owners and executives to help them get the most out of their insurance and insurance broker. It also describes a new type of insurance broker - the broker executive - as one who adheres to the highest standards of customer service and business ethics. This book gives business executives an understanding of the thought process their broker should go through to find the right solution for them, with an emphasis on the usage of life insurance as a business tool. It identifies some of the hazards of the insurance world, and ways to avoid...
Broker Executive is a strategic guidebook for business owners and executives to help them get the most out of their insurance and insurance broker. It...
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113,62 zł |
Reforming Pensions: A Short Guide
ISBN: 9780195387728 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments have three elements: * Pension systems have multiple objectives--consumption smoothing, insurance, poverty relief, and redistribution. Good policy needs to bear them all in mind. * Good analysis...
Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not ...
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187,96 zł |
Risk: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199576203 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of various kinds of risk. Using conceptual frameworks such as decision theory and behavioral decision research, they examine the science and practice of creating measures of risk and look at how...
We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, ...
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47,76 zł |
The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies: A Guide to the New World of Performance-Oriented Operational Risk
ISBN: 9780857190536 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies is a groundbreaking new book. It seeks to apply for the first time a range of proven operational risk techniques from other industries and disciplines to the troubled territory of financial services. Operational risk expert Brian Barnier introduces a range of sophisticated, dependable and - crucially - approachable tools for risk evaluation, risk response and risk governance. He provides a more robust way of gaining a better picture of risks, shows how to build risk-return awareness into decision making, and how to fix (and not just...
The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies is a groundbreaking new book. It seeks to apply for the first time a range of proven operational...
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265,60 zł |
Scenario Planning: A Field Guide to the Future
ISBN: 9781118170151 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is your business ready for the future?
Scenario planning is a fascinating, yet still underutilized, business tool that can be of immense value to a company's strategic planning process. It allows companies to visualize the impact that a portfolio of possible futures could have on their competitiveness. It helps decision-makers see opportunities and threats that could emerge beyond their normal planning horizon. Scenario Planning serves as a guide to taking a long-term look at your business, your industry, and the world, posing thoughtful questions about the possible... Is your business ready for the future?
Scenario planning is a fascinating, yet still underutilized, business tool that can be of immense val... |
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132,83 zł |
Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781118315316 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is organised around the principle that much of actuarial science consists of the construction and analysis of mathematical models which describe the process by which funds flow into and out of an insurance system.
This volume is organised around the principle that much of actuarial science consists of the construction and analysis of mathematical models which de...
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185,69 zł |
Advances in Financial Risk Management: Corporates, Intermediaries and Portfolios
ISBN: 9781137025081 / Angielski / Twarda / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial corporations; in financial intermediaries such as banks; and finally within the context of a portfolio of securities of different credit quality and marketability.
The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial corpor...
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388,20 zł |
Bank Performance, Risk and Securitization
ISBN: 9781137332080 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were presented at the Wolpertinger Conference held in Valletta, Malta, 2012 and provide insights into bank performance, banking risk, securitisation, bank stability, sovereign debt and derivatives.
The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were presented ...
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388,20 zł |
Bank Stability, Sovereign Debt and Derivatives
ISBN: 9781137332141 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were presented at the Wolpertinger Conference held in Valletta, Malta, 2012 and provide insights into bank performance, banking risk, securitisation, bank stability, sovereign debt and derivatives.
The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were presented ...
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194,08 zł |
Risk-Based Investment Management in Practice
ISBN: 9781137346391 / Angielski / Twarda / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practitioner's account of how investment risk affects the decisions of professional investment managers. Jargon-free, with a broad coverage of investment types and asset classes, the non-investment professional will find this book readable and accessible.
A practitioner's account of how investment risk affects the decisions of professional investment managers. Jargon-free, with a broad coverage of inves...
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194,08 zł |
Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800-1914
ISBN: 9781442639966 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and resist elements of modernity such as statistical thinking, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy. The nature of Victorian life insurance companies meant that their customers were both consuming subjects and objectified abstractions. Policyholders were active consumers of a product... Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and... |
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383,60 zł |
Public Safety and Risk Assessment: Improving Decision Making
ISBN: 9781849713818 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety activities interfering with public life, preventing some beneficial activity from taking place - even creating absurd or dangerous situations. On the one hand, risk assessment, properly conducted, is highly beneficial - it saves lives and prevents injuries. But on the other, it can damage public... This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this n... |
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201,84 zł |
The Perception of Risk
ISBN: 9781853835285 / Angielski / Miękka / 511 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other...
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings togethe...
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191,75 zł |
Private Security Vol 1
ISBN: 9781899287703 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Private security is now a multi-billion pound industry employing more personnel than the police. The authors provide incisive insights into the security world, scanning its weaknesses and exploring its potential. Based upon original research, supported by years of experience, they suggest that new ways of looking at the modern security world are long overdue. Private Security is a highly innovative book containing a wealth of up-to-date material. It is the definitive guide to the security world.
Private security is now a multi-billion pound industry employing more personnel than the police. The authors provide incisive insights into the securi...
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194,08 zł |
Human Error - By Design?
ISBN: 9781899287727 / Angielski / Miękka / 53 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Air accidents and disasters are often attributed to 'pilot error'. The author argues that such 'blamism' may obscure the underlying cause(s) of a disaster, as errors can also be induced through bad design, poor training, unrealistic rosters, sub-standard maintenance and other factors totally outside the control of the flight crew. This book combines systems theory with research data and case studies and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the aetiology of air disasters.
Air accidents and disasters are often attributed to 'pilot error'. The author argues that such 'blamism' may obscure the underlying cause(s) of a disa...
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194,08 zł |
Transboundary Risk Governance
ISBN: 9780415853163 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and trans-boundary environmental...
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing p...
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216,98 zł |
The Moorad Choudhry Anthology, + Website: Past, Present and Future Principles of Banking and Finance
ISBN: 9781118779736 / Angielski / Twarda / 1328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive and timeless guide to the principles of banking and finance, addressing and meeting the challenges of competition, strategy, regulation and the digital age. Moorad Choudhry Anthology compiles the best of renowned author Professor Moorad Choudhry's incisive writings on financial markets and bank risk management, together with new material that reflects the legislative changes in the post-crisis world of finance and the impact of digitization and global competition. Covering the developments and principles of banking from the 1950s to today, this unique... The definitive and timeless guide to the principles of banking and finance, addressing and meeting the challenges of competition, strategy, regu... |
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375,10 zł |
Corporate Fraud and Corruption: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Financial Crises
ISBN: 9781349680818 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Krambia-Kapardis shows how evidence-based, multi-level micro and macro analysis of fraud risk and protective factors inform effective fraud prevention, in turn minimizing financial catastrophes. Krambia-Kapardis shows how evidence-based, multi-level micro and macro analysis of fraud risk and protective factors inform effective fraud prevent... |
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388,20 zł |
Analytical Finance: Volume I: The Mathematics of Equity Derivatives, Markets, Risk and Valuation
ISBN: 9783319340265 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an introduction to the valuation of financial instruments on equity markets. Written from the perspective of trading, risk management and quantitative research functions and written by a practitioner with many years' experience in markets and in academia, it provides a valuable learning tool for students and new entrants to these markets. Coverage includes: -Trading and sources of risk, including credit and counterparty risk, market and model risks, settlement and Herstatt risks. -Numerical methods including discrete-time methods, finite... This book provides an introduction to the valuation of financial instruments on equity markets. Written from the perspective of trading, risk manag... |
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291,14 zł |
Value-Based Working Capital Management: Determining Liquid Asset Levels in Entrepreneurial Environments
ISBN: 9781137397997 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Value-Based Working Capital Management analyzes the causes and effects of improper cash flow management between entrepreneurial organizations with varying levels of risk. This work looks at the motives and criteria for decision-making by entrepreneurs in their efforts to protect the financial security of their businesses and manage financial liquidity. Michalski argues that businesses exposed to greater risk need a different approach to managing liquidity levels.
Value-Based Working Capital Management analyzes the causes and effects of improper cash flow management between entrepreneurial organizations with var...
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194,08 zł |