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Institutional Investor's Guide to Managed Futures Programs

Where can the country's 400,000 money and portfolio managers turn to enhance returns, gain new exposure in profitable asset classes, and reduce investment risk? The "Institutional Investors Guide to Managed Futures Programmes" systematically explains the nuances and complexities of today's hottest investment opportunities - futures funds and managed futures programmes which actively manage a portion of an institutional investor's portfolio - and helps financial pros competently and confidently select the right funds to meet their portfolio's needs. The guide also fully examines basic fund structures, addresses tax planning and regulatory issues, and forecasts the growth of global futures markets and funds.

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The Market Savvy Investor: Profit from the Techniques of the Top Traders

Designed to help make you a well-informed, clearly focused, highly researched investor and market participant. Presents a disciplined method for organizing dynamic, everchanging market phenomena. DLC: Futures--U.S.

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The Economics, Law, and Public Policy of Market Power Manipulation

Deterrence of market manipulation is central to the entire regulatory and legal framework governing the operation of American commodity futures markets. However, despite all of the regulatory, scholarly, and legal scrutiny of market manipulation, the subject is widely misunderstood. Federal commodity and securities laws prohibit manipulation, but do not define it. Scholarly research has failed to analyze adequately the causes or effects of manipulation, and the relevant judicial decisions are confused, confusing, and contradictory. The aim of this book is to illuminate the process of market manipulation by presenting a rigorous economic analysis of this phenomenon, including the conditions that facilitate it and its effects on market users and others. The conclusions of this analysis are used to examine critically some legal and regulatory anti-manipulation policies. The Economics, Law and Public Policy of Market Power Manipulation concludes with a set of robust and realistic tests that regulators and jurists can apply to detect and deter manipulation.

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Practical Readings in Financial Derivatives

Two central themes govern the content--the pricing of financial derivatives and their practical application in risk management.

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Fire Your Broker and Trade Online: Everything You Need to Start Investin

Fire Your Broker and Trade Online tells the 45 million investors who are not yet online how they can get started. It focuses on the basics investors need, from getting the right software and opening an account to executing that first trade, without bogging them down with technical factoids and confusing misinformation. From walking the readers through a typical online trade,with reproductions of actual Web pages,to directions for developing the proper mindset, Fire Your Broker and Trade Online gets investors up and running. This all-in-one online primer includes: Profiles of today's top ten online brokers. A detailed chapter on trading techniques. Which sectors are tailor-made for online investing, and why.

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Foundations of Futures Markets: Selected Essays of A.G. Malliaris (Finan

This selection of Professor Malliaris's work in the area of futures markets provides a comprehensive analysis of the field.

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Futures Markets (International Library of Critical Writings in Financial

This three volume work gives a guide to the subject of the futures market. Volume I entitled futures markets: institutions, volatility and speculation includes articles such as the simultaneous determination of spot and futures pricews; price variability and the maturity effect in futures markets; and the determinates of corprate hedging. Volume II on the pricing, efficiency, chaos and hedging af the futures markets, featuring an introduction by the editor contains articles on such subjects as futures trading and market information; the variation of certain speculative prices; and business cycles and the behaviour of metals prices. The last volume covers such topics as the pricing of stock index futures; arbitrage in stock index futures; and margin regulationa nd stock market volatility. They may form an essential part of the libraries of anyone interested in futures and of any micro-economist.

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Financial Futures Primer

The Financial Futures Primer provides the reader with an introduction to the futures markets and financial futures. The brief, yet comprehensive overview of the complex topics surrounding futures makes the book a valuable resource for professionals.

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The Handbook of Managed Futures and Hedge Funds: Performance, Evaluation

In the quest for higher returns, institutional investors are investing billions of dollars into managed futures and hedge funds, which offer more flexibility and diversification than conventional funds. This completely updated and expanded edition of the classic Managed Futures and Hedge Funds includes the latest information on hedge funds, as well as new chapters on performance benchmarks and selection criteria. Readers will find everything needed to understand and benefit from these alternative investments, including how-to: develop an institutional protfolio of managed futures and hedge funds; maximize diversification and arbitrage potential; successfully perform risk/return analyses.

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Grain Futures Contracts: An Economic Appraisal

This book is an independent scholarly analysis of the economics of the grain futures contracts of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT), special attention being paid to the recent performance and future prospects of a crucial aspect of grain futures contracts - the delivery process. Delivery links futures and spots markets, and is essential to the efficient performance of a grain futures contract. Both hedging effectiveness and the `informativeness' of futures prices depend upon this linkage.

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