1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785387203321

Autore

Vancas Ingrid

Titolo

Due diligence and risk assessment of an alternative investment fund [[electronic resource] /] / Ingrid Vancas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2010

ISBN

3-8366-3593-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (93 p.)

Disciplina

622

Soggetti

Investments

Risk management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782532803321

Autore

Lucas Samuel Roundfield

Titolo

Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice [[electronic resource] ] : discrimination in the United States / / Samuel Roundfield Lucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-97334-3

1-59213-914-0

9786611973346

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

305.0973

Soggetti

Discrimination - United States

Racism - United States

Sexism - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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