Financial advice and investment decisions : a manifesto for change / / Jarrod W. Wilcox, Frank J. Fabozzi |
Autore | Wilcox Jarrod W |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporation, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FabozziFrank J |
Collana | The Frank J. Fabozzi Series |
Soggetto topico | Portfolio management |
ISBN |
1-118-41532-9
1-118-65676-8 1-118-41811-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; CHAPTER 1 Why Do We Need Better Financial Advice?; The Individual; Organizational Influences; The Rest of the Story; CHAPTER 2 The Evidence Is Compelling; Financial Planning; Your Most Important Investment Decision; Option Payoffs are Not Simple; After-Tax Payoffs are Not Simple; Our Primitive Brains and Monkey See, Monkey Do; Others' Agendas and the Perils of the Ivory Tower; CHAPTER 3 The Extended Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Planning; The Simplest Model
The Stochastic Dynamic Programming AlternativeThe Mental Accounting Alternative; The Extended Balance Sheet; A Financial Planning System; CHAPTER 4 Properties of Mostly Efficient Markets; Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior; Why Security Returns are Difficult to Predict; Markets Bubble and Crash; Investment Implications of Market Characteristics; CHAPTER 5 Growing Discretionary Wealth; The Discretionary Wealth Approach; Elements of the Approach; Appropriate Markowitz Risk Aversion; CHAPTER 6 Coping with Uncertain Knowledge; Interpretation of Probability; Bayesian Probability Fundamentals Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification Higher MomentsImplementation; CHAPTER 10 Active vs. Passive Strategies; Pricing Efficiency and the Active-Passive Debate; CHAPTER 11 Performance Measurement; Relating Measurement to Purpose; Spending Control; Measurement for Individual Passive Investing; Performance Reporting for Active Investors; Delegating Your Investments Based on Measurements; Measuring vs. Evaluating Performance; CHAPTER 12 Organizational Investing; Representative Investing Organizations; Delegating Superior Investing Results; Motivating Organizational Benefits; CHAPTER 13 Financial Advice and Society Social Ideals and Financial Problem SymptomsRedesigning Society with Better Financial Advice; And in Conclusion...; APPENDIX A Traditional Asset Classes and Alternative Assets; Asset Class Defined; Common Stock Asset Classes; Real Estate; Alternative Assets; APPENDIX B Bond Features, Yield Measures, and Risks; Features of Bonds; Yield Measures and their Limitations; Call and Prepayment Risk; Credit Risk; APPENDIX C Probability Distributions Commonly Used in Investment Management; Normal Distribution; Student's t-Distribution; Stable Distributions and Stable Paretian Distributions APPENDIX D Useful Financial Planning Formulas |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910138986603321 |
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporation, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Financial advice and investment decisions : a manifesto for change / / Jarrod W. Wilcox, Frank J. Fabozzi |
Autore | Wilcox Jarrod W |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporation, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
Disciplina | 332.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FabozziFrank J |
Collana | The Frank J. Fabozzi Series |
Soggetto topico | Portfolio management |
ISBN |
1-118-41532-9
1-118-65676-8 1-118-41811-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; CHAPTER 1 Why Do We Need Better Financial Advice?; The Individual; Organizational Influences; The Rest of the Story; CHAPTER 2 The Evidence Is Compelling; Financial Planning; Your Most Important Investment Decision; Option Payoffs are Not Simple; After-Tax Payoffs are Not Simple; Our Primitive Brains and Monkey See, Monkey Do; Others' Agendas and the Perils of the Ivory Tower; CHAPTER 3 The Extended Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Planning; The Simplest Model
The Stochastic Dynamic Programming AlternativeThe Mental Accounting Alternative; The Extended Balance Sheet; A Financial Planning System; CHAPTER 4 Properties of Mostly Efficient Markets; Multi-Agent Emergent Behavior; Why Security Returns are Difficult to Predict; Markets Bubble and Crash; Investment Implications of Market Characteristics; CHAPTER 5 Growing Discretionary Wealth; The Discretionary Wealth Approach; Elements of the Approach; Appropriate Markowitz Risk Aversion; CHAPTER 6 Coping with Uncertain Knowledge; Interpretation of Probability; Bayesian Probability Fundamentals Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification Higher MomentsImplementation; CHAPTER 10 Active vs. Passive Strategies; Pricing Efficiency and the Active-Passive Debate; CHAPTER 11 Performance Measurement; Relating Measurement to Purpose; Spending Control; Measurement for Individual Passive Investing; Performance Reporting for Active Investors; Delegating Your Investments Based on Measurements; Measuring vs. Evaluating Performance; CHAPTER 12 Organizational Investing; Representative Investing Organizations; Delegating Superior Investing Results; Motivating Organizational Benefits; CHAPTER 13 Financial Advice and Society Social Ideals and Financial Problem SymptomsRedesigning Society with Better Financial Advice; And in Conclusion...; APPENDIX A Traditional Asset Classes and Alternative Assets; Asset Class Defined; Common Stock Asset Classes; Real Estate; Alternative Assets; APPENDIX B Bond Features, Yield Measures, and Risks; Features of Bonds; Yield Measures and their Limitations; Call and Prepayment Risk; Credit Risk; APPENDIX C Probability Distributions Commonly Used in Investment Management; Normal Distribution; Student's t-Distribution; Stable Distributions and Stable Paretian Distributions APPENDIX D Useful Financial Planning Formulas |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820713103321 |
Wilcox Jarrod W
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Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, Incorporation, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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