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Explains the most effective ways to discuss the legal and financial responsibilities that come with the end of life and tools for managing themsuch as wills, trusts, estate planning, and cash managementin the context of financial psychology.

Dying is complicated.

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During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. This title follows the trajectory of this market populism, and examines the origins and impact of the mass engagement in investing.

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From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable fa

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Written by four experts in the field of pension funds, this work examines the possibilities for pension reform based on a detailed understanding of a successful system, the union pension fund of the Operating Engineers.

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Most of the schools built in the United States, as well as many public facilities, must be financed by borrowing in the capital markets. Until recently, when strongly competing capital demands have interfered, the privilege of tax exemption has made state and local government borrowing relatively easy. Dr. Robinson has made an extensive study of th

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One of the top private developers in the U.S. shares his billionaire secrets to empower both small and seasoned investors.

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Down to earth, readable, and meticulously explained throughout, the book is not only an important tool in practical problem solving situations, but it also provides valuable methods and guidance for upper level students and their instructors.

Among the book's important contributions is its chapter on portfolio optimization.

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Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. This title retraces the historical developments that ultimately led to the breakthrough of an options pricing formula.

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Private Equity explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add.

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The test of any performance system is how well it affects behavior. The systems described herein have a profound impact on the behavior of managers throughout financial depositories in areas such as origination, servicing and brokerage product-line operating units, deposit-gathering branches, portfolio managers, and origination sales offices.

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Contents Foreword, ix I. Introductory, 1 II. The Nature of Protection, 8 III. Critique of Popular, and Fallacious, Arguments for Protection, 17 IV. The Argument for Free Trade, 50 V. Rational Protection, 63 VI. Anti-dumping Legislation and Special Forms of Foreign Trade Control, 89 VII. The Future Commercial Policy of the United States, 107

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Contents Foreword, ix I. Introductory, 1 II. The Nature of Protection, 8 III. Critique of Popular, and Fallacious, Arguments for Protection, 17 IV. The Argument for Free Trade, 50 V. Rational Protection, 63 VI. Anti-dumping Legislation and Special Forms of Foreign Trade Control, 89 VII. The Future Commercial Policy of the United States, 107

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Offering new research findings and a useful theoretical synthesis, this study will promote a clearer understanding of the internal political processes of Third World nations and be of compelling interest to specialists and students concerned with Third World political economy, comparative government, and international political economy.

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This volume shows how the virtues of the market system, private property, and freedom of exchange can be applied to enhance the quality of life. It examines the general principles that guide both market and government allocation of resources, and specific policy issues.

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An examination of the role of public-private partnerships for local economic development in the United States and western Europe.

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Critics of qualitative educational evaluation frequently assume this approach is a monolithic entity rather than a multitude of varied approaches.