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UNINA9910785387203321 |
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Vancas Ingrid |
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Due diligence and risk assessment of an alternative investment fund [[electronic resource] /] / Ingrid Vancas |
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Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (93 p.) |
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Investments |
Risk management |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Due Diligence and Risk Assessment of an Alternative Investment Fund; Acknowledgments; Contents; Charts; Tables; Abbreviations; 1. Agenda; 2. Investment Philosophy and Due Diligence; 3. Relative Value and Market Neutral Strategy Risk; 4. Event Driven Strategy Risk; 5. Opportunistic Strategy Risk; 6. Internal and External Risk Factors; 7. Due Diligence framework, conclusive reflexion andclosing remarks; Bibliography; Autorenprofil |
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The aim of the book is to provide practical guidance for the investor when compiling due diligence and deciding on an investment or against it. The focus of the book lays on the risk assessment and due diligence. It captures fund's internal and external risks and the investment style specific risks. The aim is to provide sound guidance to the alternative investment fund selection. The UCITS 3 directive widens investment tools for the traditional asset managers by allowing short selling of securities and diminishing the gap between the traditional and the alternative asset management industry a |
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UNINA9910782532803321 |
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Autore |
Lucas Samuel Roundfield |
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Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice [[electronic resource] ] : discrimination in the United States / / Samuel Roundfield Lucas |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
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1-281-97334-3 |
1-59213-914-0 |
9786611973346 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Discrimination - United States |
Racism - United States |
Sexism - United States |
United States Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evidently; 1 Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases; 2 Experiential Realities and Public Contestation; 3 From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice; 4 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives; 5 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View; 6 Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method; 7 Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation |
8 Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation9 Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice; Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2; Appendix B: Commentary on Simulation for Chapter 5; References; Index |
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Despite several decades of attention, there is still no consensus on the effects of racial or sexual discrimination in the United States. In this landmark work, the well-known sociologist Samuel Lucas shows how |
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discrimination is not simply an action that one person performs in relation to another individual, but something far more insidious: a pervasive dynamic that permeates the environment in which we live and work.Challenging existing literature on the subject, Lucas makes a clear distinction between prejudice and discrimination. He maintains that when an era of "condoned |
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