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Alpha, higher-than-expected returns generated by an investment strategy, is the holy grail of the investment world. Achieve alpha, and you've beaten the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha was borne from equity analyst Richard Tortoriello's efforts to create a series of quantitative stock selection models for his company, Standard & Poor's, and produce a “road map” of the market from a quantitative point of view. With this practical guide, you will gain an effective instrument that can be used to improve your investment process, whether you invest qualitatively, quantitatively, or seek to combine both. Each alpha-achieving strategy has been extensively back-tested using Standard & Poor's Compustat Point in Time database and has proven to deliver alpha over the long term. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha presents a wide variety of individual and combined investment strategies that consistently predict above-market returns. The result is a comprehensive investment mosaic that illustrates clearly those qualities and characteristics that make an investment attractive or unattractive. This valuable work contains: A wide variety of investment strategies built around the seven basics that drive future stock market returns: profitability, valuation, cash flow generation, growth, capital allocation, price momentum, and red flags (risk) A building-block approach to quantitative analysis based on 42 single-factor and nearly 70 two- and three-factor backtests, which show the investor how to effectively combine individual factors into robust investment screens and models More than 20 proven investment screens for generating winning investment ideas Suggestions for using quantitative strategies to manage risk and for structuring your own quantitative portfolios Advice on using quantitative principles to do qualitative investment research, including sample spreadsheets This powerful, data intensive book will help you clearly see what empirically drives the market, while providing the tools to make more profitable investment decisions based on that knowledge--through both bull and bear markets.
‘Hands On – All Media Producing’ is a follow up to AACTA and Emmy® award winning filmmaker Marcus Gillezeau’s 2004 book ‘Hands On – A practical guide to production and technology in film, TV and new Media’. ‘Hands On – All Media Producing’ is a compendium of tips, advice and experiences for producers and filmmakers and aims to provide some key answers to the most pressing question facing screen practitioners today: ‘How do I produce for multiple platforms?’ All Media projects represent the future of the screen industry. The entire cultural and entertainment business landscape is changing in response to the growing integration of story, content and brand across media platforms. Combined with the role consumers are playing in shaping how they want to be entertained it is at once a daunting, yet exciting space to be working in. Based on the experiences of film-maker Marcus Gillezeau and case studies of recent projects by the world’s best All Media producers, this entirely accessible guide aims to help screen practitioners, producers, directors and writers, plan, finance and produce their next project as an All Media production. This eBook is being provided free of charge to the industry, due to the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW.
Institutional investors spend the majority of their time in search of the Holy Grail of investment alpha, or risk-adjusted market outperformance. The problem is far too many organizations and funds fail to first understand whether or not they have what it takes to earn alpha or whether it even makes sense to try. Organizational alpha, on the other hand, is something every institutional investor and nonprofit can achieve, assuming they focus on what they can control and what matters. This book will show institutional investors, board members, trustees, consultants and beneficiaries how the concept of organizational alpha can help them: Recognize the importance of goals-based investing. Think in terms of process over outcomes. Understand the fiduciary duty and what constitutes a breach of that duty. Know the difference between a governing and managing fiduciary. Define their overarching investment philosophy. Make sense of the group dynamic at play when making decisions-by-committee. Ensure more continuity in their investment program. Improve their due diligence and decision-making processes. Choose the right consultant or advisor to help oversee their assets. Find additional sources of alpha. Understand the alternative investment landscape. Appreciate the differences between foundations, endowments and pensions. Document their investment process to cut down on unnecessary mistakes. Make decisions that revolve around the goals and mission of the organization. Set realistic expectations with the understanding that the future is always uncertain. Written by an institutional investor who has spent his entire career working with a wide range of institutional investors from endowments to foundations to pension plans to family offices and other nonprofits, Organizational Alpha is a manual that provides institutional investors with the tools they need to find success in the markets and as organizations.
Susy Smith wrote How to Develop Your ESP many years before she founded the Survival Research Foundation and also the Susy Smith Project at the Unviersity of Arizona which is now recognized as the center of Afterlife Codes research. It tells a lot more than just how to try to learn techniques of using telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition, for it also wants to help those who desire to learn to communicate with beloved friends and relatives who have passed on. Many aspects of the psychical field, such as healing, celebrity seances, psychic surgeons, possession, and physical phenomena are discussed here, with fascinating case histories throughout. Reading about how others have advanced their abilities, as well as the problems and experiences they have had, is informing and entertaining even for those who have no desire to personally work on their own ESP development. Be sure to visit the Afterlife Codes website of the Susy Smith Project at www.afterlifecodes.com.
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