Author: Hull

Active Retirement contains everything for the DIY investor: * managing blue-chip shares * investing in all types of property * designing a business model for success * using financial structures, such as SMSFs and trusts * learning the 'tricks of the trade' that the wealthy teach their children * implementing a retirement plan.

Author: Phoa

Wesley Phoa covers a variety of important topics within the bond markets, including inflation-indexed bonds, prepayment risk and modeling, term structure models, credit spread and volatility risk, and risk measures and return attribution. The information and guidance of Advanced Fixed Income Analytics has a strong emphasis on empirical analysis and practical applications that will prepare you for anything within the fixed income market.

About the Author:
Wesley Phoa is Vice President of Research at Capital Management Sciences.

Author: Dunnin

For too long Australians have had little say about which superannuation fund to use to build their retirement nest egg. The introduction of super choice changes everything. With research from SelectingSuper, Alex Dunnin walks you through the essentials of superannuation and how to kick the tyres of your current fund. He demystifies everything from fees, investment menus, those bewildering performance numbers, the insurance on offer, and even how you can take advantage of the extra benefits and services straightaway instead of having to wait until you retire. The book is divided into two parts: * Part one explains why superannuation is so important, how it works in funding your retirement and what exactly ?uper choice?means. It also shows you how to compare funds and how to make super choice meaningful for you. * Part two profiles many of the leading personal superannuation funds available in Australia. These profiles comprise information about who runs the fund, the fees involved, investment choices, extra benefits and services, and include SelectingSuper ratings for each. This book puts your choice into perspective and empowers you to make the right investment decisions for you.

Author: Lucia

A proven way to financially prepare for retirement

Are you wondering if you can make your retirement savings last?
Concerned about inflation reducing your purchasing power?
Worried about the stock market’s violent swings?

In Buckets of Money: How to Retire in Comfort and Safety, nationally recognized Certified Financial PlannerTM and radio personality Ray Lucia offers you a smart and conservative way to protect and grow your nest egg–so you can enjoy a comfortable retirement without worrying about your money running out.

Developed by Lucia over his thirty-year career as a financial planner, the "Buckets of Money" technique is a proven way to achieve both income and growth, while guarding against the ravages of inflation. Buckets of Money is filled with in-depth insights and practical advice that will help you assess your retirement situation, save the money you need to last your entire lifetime, and adjust your plan to good times and bad.

Regardless of your age, income, net worth, or investment experience, you need to have a solid plan for your retirement years. Buckets of Money provides you with such a plan, and shows you the best way to implement it.

Author: Smith

Most people now understand the need to work hard to accumulate wealth for when they retire from the mainstream work force. What people do not realise is that the need to manage your finances does not stop when you stop work. If we are lucky, we can expect to live until we are 80 or more and if we retire at 60 that means that our superannuation has to last for at least 20 years! Careful planning is required to ensure that the funds under management continue to create enough income to support us during this time. Then there is the question of estate planning. Do we want to leave wealth for our children or do we want to SKI (Spend the Kids Inheritance)? All these financial questions and some lifestyle issues are addressed by high-profile authors Barbara Smith and Ed Koken, experts in the fields of personal finance and retirement planning, in their latest book DIY Retirement Planning, a sister publication to DIY Financial Planning.

Author: Donnelly

In recent years, the number of Do-It-Yourself superannuation funds has exploded ?collectively they account for more than $68 billion. DIY Superannuation 4th Edition is a comprehensive and practical guide which shows readers how to set up, invest and manage what, for many Australians, is their single largest asset. Fully revised and updated.

Author: Mazonas

As corporations and the government continue to shift the responsibility for retirement savings to workers, employees at all economic levels must develop a personal plan to ensure a financially secure retirement. In Double Your Retirement Income, financial professional Peter Mazonas provides readers with the tools and information needed to overcome retirement obstacles. Beginning with a broad overview of the economic realities readers will face, this comprehensive guide helps them take a step back and make an honest assessment of what it’s going to take to retire on their terms. Filled with in-depth insight, expert advice, and illustrative charts and graphs, Double Your Retirement Income shows readers how to effectively manage Defined Contribution Plans, understand Defined Benefit Pension Plans, buy and hold a balanced portfolio of no-load, and much more.

Author: Martellini

This textbook will be designed for fixed-income securities courses taught on MSc Finance and MBA courses. There is currently no suitable text that offers a 'Hull-type' book for the fixed income student market. This book aims to fill this need. The book will contain numerous worked examples, excel spreadsheets, with a building block approach throughout. A key feature of the book will be coverage of both traditional and alternative investment strategies in the fixed-income market, for example, the book will cover the modern strategies used by fixed-income hedge funds.

• The text will be supported by a set of PowerPoint slides for use by the lecturer
• First textbook designed for students written on fixed-income securities - a growing market
• Contains numerous worked examples throughout
• Includes coverage of important topics often omitted in other books i.e. deriving the zero yield curve, deriving credit spreads, hedging and also covers interest rate and credit derivatives

About the Author:
Lionel Martellini is an assistant Professor of Finance at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where he teaches "fixed-income securities" at the MBA level. He is also a research associate at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, and a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Bond Training and Management and The Journal of Alternative Investments.

Philippe Priaulet is a fixed-income strategist in charge of derivatives strategies for HSBC. His expertise is related to fixed-income asset management and derivatives pricing and hedging, and his research has been published in leading academic and practitioners' journals. Formerly, he was head of fixed-income research in the Research and Innovation Department of HSBC-CCF.

Stéphanie Priaulet is a senior index portfolio manager in the Structured Asset Management Department at AXA Investment Managers. Previously, he was head of qualitative engineering in The Fixed Income Research Department at AXA Investment Managers. He also teaches "fixed-income securities" as a part-time lecturer at the University Paris Dauphine. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Bond Trading and Management, where he has published several research papers.

Author: Tuckman

Includes a series of end-of-chapter questions for students.
* Explains the subtleties of fixed income mathematics.
* Discusses multi-factor interest rate models and offers four original case studies.
* Covers the latest fixed income securities valuation models and techniques, and their application in real world situations.

About the Author:
BRUCE TUCKMAN, PhD, is a Managing Director in the Fixed Income and Derivatives Division of Credit Suisse First Boston. After receiving his doctorate in economics from MIT, he became a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a visiting professor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. He began his Wall Street career at Salomon Brothers’ Fixed Income Proprietary Trading Group.

Author: Henderson

Economists and others have constructed models of interest rate behaviour, but no model works in all circumstances. The main aim of this book is to straddle the different worlds of theoretical models and practical market experience, while offering an interdisciplinary framework for fixed income investing and trading.

• A focussed but very practical approach to fixed-income investment, aimed at practitioner market
• Contains investment checklists and interviews with market practitioners
• Offers an interdisciplinary framework for fixed-income investing and trading, and combines worlds of theoretical models and practical market experience

About the Author:
TAMARA MAST HENDERSON is a senior fixed income strategist for a leading provider of independent research and market analysis, responsible for European sovereign debt.  Ahead of this, Dr. Henderson was deputy head of the International Monetary Fund's Investment Unit, responsible for the management of $11 million in trust funds.  Henderson has also worked as an economist for the US Department of Commerce, IMF and Salomon Smith Barney.  She has a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Economics from the University of Virginia, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University.

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