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UNINA9910863156503321 |
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Autore |
Curtis Gregory <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Advising the Ultra-Wealthy : A Guide for Practitioners / / by Gregory Curtis |
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Springer International Publishing, 2020 |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVI, 128 p.) |
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336.20086210973 |
332.02401 |
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Financial services industry |
Financial Services |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1: Ultra-Wealthy Families and Their Financial Advisors -- Chapter 2: How Families Get Rich (and Why It Matters to You) -- Chapter 3: Differences Between Wealthy Families and Institutions -- Chapter 4: Building an Ultra-Wealthy Family Client Base -- Chapter 5: A Wealthy Family's Many Advisors -- Chapter 6: Policy Statements for Wealthy Families -- Chapter 7: Evaluating Money Managers for Family Portfolios -- Chapter 8: On Governance: Decision-making in Families -- Chapter 9: Family Philanthropy -- Chapter 10: They're Selling the Family Company: Now What? -- Chapter 11: What Is the Wealth For? -- Chapter 12: Socially Responsible Investing -- Chapter 13: Trusts and Estate Planning -- Chapter 14: Strengthening Your Existing Knowledge -- Chapter 15: Miscellaneous Issues that Affect the Ultra-Wealthy. |
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This book, designed to be a guide for practitioners who wish to advise ultra-wealthy families, focuses on the difference between the ultra-wealthy and the 'merely' wealthy. With this in mind, the chapters devote little time to issues on which most financial advisors spend most of their time-retirement planning, IRA accounts, home mortgages, planning for college tuition, or financial planning in general. |
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Practitioners working with the ultra-wealthy will instead need to grapple with complex tax issues, matters associated with the ever-changing world of trusts, the special world of the family office, money managers that are not available to anyone who is not an accredited investor or who enforce very high minimum account sizes, the family dynamics and human capital issues that destroy both families and wealth, and so on, all of which will be covered on a global scale in this book. |
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UNINA9911020010103321 |
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Titolo |
MPEG-4 facial animation : the standard, implementation and applications / / edited by Igor S. Pandzic and Robert Forchheimer |
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Chichester ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2002 |
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9786610270071 |
9781280270079 |
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9780470339046 |
0470339047 |
9780470854617 |
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9780470854624 |
0470854626 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PandzicIgor S |
ForchheimerRobert |
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MPEG (Video coding standard) |
Computer animation - Standards |
Face perception - Data processing - Standards |
Facial expression - Computer simulation - Standards |
Digital video |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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MPEG-4 Facial Animation The Standard, Implementation and Applications; Contents; List of Contributors; Author Biographies; Foreword; Preface; PART 1 BACKGROUND; 1 The Origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation Standard; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Need for Parameterization; 1.3 The Ideal Parameterization; 1.4 Is MPEG-4 FA up to the Ideal?; 1.4.1 Conclusion; 1.5 Brief History of Facial Control Parameterization; 1.6 The Birth of the Standard; Acknowledgments; References; PART 2 THE STANDARD; 2 Face Animation in MPEG-4; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Specification and Animation of Faces |
2.2.1 MPEG-4 Face Model in Neutral State2.2.2 Face Animation Parameters; 2.2.3 Face Model Specification; 2.3 Coding of Face Animation Parameters; 2.3.1 Arithmetic Coding of FAPs; 2.3.2 DCT Coding of FAPs; 2.3.3 FAP Interpolation Tables; 2.4 Integration of Face Animation and Text-to-Speech Synthesis; 2.5 Integration with MPEG-4 Systems; 2.6 MPEG-4 Profiles for Face Animation; 2.7 Conclusion; References; Annex; 3 MPEG-4 Face Animation Conformance; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 MPEG Conformance Principles; 3.3 MPEG-4 Profile Architecture; 3.4 The Minimum Face; 3.5 Graphics Profiles |
3.6 Conformance Testing3.7 Summary; PART 3 IMPLEMENTATIONS; 4 MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Applications; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Facial Animation Player; 4.3 Producing Animatable Face Models; 4.4 The Facial Motion Cloning Method; 4.4.1 Interpolation from 2-D Triangle Mesh; 4.4.2 Normalizing the Face; 4.4.3 Computing Facial Motion; 4.4.4 Aligning Source and Target Ace; 4.4.5 Mapping Facial Motion; 4.4.6 Antialiasing; 4.4.7 Treating the Lip Region; 4.4.8 Treating Eyes, Teeth, Tongue and Global Motion; 4.4.9 Facial Motion Cloning Results |
4.5 Producing Facial Animation Content4.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 5 The Facial Animation Engine; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The FAE Block Diagram; 5.3 The Face Model; 5.3.1 Mesh Geometry Description; 5.3.2 Mesh Semantics Description; 5.3.3 The Model Authoring Tool; 5.3.4 Sample Face Models; 5.4 The Mesh Animation Block; 5.4.1 Animation Results; 5.5 The Mesh Calibration Block; 5.5.1 Multilevel Calibration with RBF; 5.5.2 Calibration with Texture; 5.5.3 Calibration Results; 5.6 The Mesh Simplification Block; 5.6.1 Iterative Edge Contraction and Quadric Error Metric |
5.6.2 Simplification of MPEG-4 Animated Faces5.6.3 Simplification with Textures; 5.6.4 Simplification Results; 5.7 The FAP Decoding Block; 5.7.1 FAP Interpolation; 5.8 The Audio Decoding Block; 5.9 The Implementation; 5.9.1 Performances; References; 6 Extracting MPEG-4 FAPS from Video; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Methods for Detection and Tracking of Faces; 6.3 Active and Statistical Models of Faces; 6.3.1 The Active Appearance Model Search Algorithm; 6.3.2 Training for Active Appearance Model Search; 6.4 An Active Model for Face Tracking; 6.4.1 Analysis - Synthesis; 6.4.2 Collecting Training Data |
6.4.3 Tracking a Face with the Active Model |
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Provides several examples of applications using the MPEG-4 Facial Animation standard, including video and speech analysis.Covers the implementation of the standard on both the encoding and decoding side.Contributors includes individuals instrumental in the standardization process. |
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