Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: investing, guide, walk, random
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 039332639X
ISBN-13: 9780393326390

Simply put, the essential first book for any investor. Based on the million-copy seller A Random Walk Down Wall Street, this concise new guide by influential and irreverent author Burton G. Malkiel takes the mystery out of personal finance by outlining Malkiel’s own ten-point plan for success. Easy to read and easy to follow, this practical book aimed at the investment novice cuts through the jargon to give readers the confidence and knowledge to make wise investment decisions that will provide consistent returns. Beginning with the basics—"Fire your investment advisor" and "Star

Author: Vijay Singal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: low, risk, investing, anomalies, market, walk, guide, stock, random
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-12-04
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0195158679
ISBN-13: 9780195158670

In an efficient market, all stocks should be valued at a price that is consistent with available information. But as financial expert Vijay Singal, Ph.D., CFA, points out, there are circumstances under which certain stocks sell at a price higher or lower than the right price. In Beyond the Random Walk, Singal discusses ten such anomalous prices and shows how investors might--or might not--be able to exploit these situations for profit. The author distills several decades of academic research into a focused discussion of market anomalies that is both accessible and useful to people with varied

Author: Vijay Singal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: management, financial, association, survey, series, synthesis, investing, risk, guide, walk, stock, market, low, anomalies, random
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0195304225
ISBN-13: 9780195304220

In an efficient market, all stocks should be valued at a price that is consistent with available information. But as financial expert Vijay Singal, Ph.D., CFA, points out, there are circumstances under which certain stocks sell at a price higher or lower than the right price. In Beyond the Random Walk, Singal discusses ten such anomalous prices and shows how investors might--or might not--be able to exploit these situations for profit.The author distills several decades of academic research into a focused discussion of market anomalies that is both accessible and useful to people with varied b

Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: successful, investing, revised, updated, strategy, tested, walk, wall, street, time, random
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-12-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0393330338
ISBN-13: 9780393330335

The million-copy bestseller, revised and updated with new investment strategies for retirement and the insights of behavioral finance. Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling, authoritative, and gimmick-free guide to investing. Burton Malkiel evaluates the full range of investment opportunities, from stocks, bonds, and money markets to real estate investment trusts and insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles. This edition includes new strategies for

Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: successful, investing, revised, updated, strategy, tested, walk, wall, street, time, random
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0393062457
ISBN-13: 9780393062458

The million-copy bestseller, revised and updated with new investment strategies for retirement and the insights of behavioral finance. Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling, authoritative, and gimmick-free guide to investing. Burton Malkiel evaluates the full range of investment opportunities, from stocks, bonds, and money markets to real estate investment trusts and insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles. This edition includes new strategies for

Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: investing, successful, completely, revised, updated, strategy, tested, walk, wall, street, time, random
Number of Pages: 445
Published: 2011-01-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0393081435
ISBN-13: 9780393081435

The best investment guide money can buy, with over 1.5 million copies sold, now fully revised and updated. Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio, A Random Walk Down Wall Street features new material on the Great Recession and the global credit crisis as well as an increased focus on the long-term potential of emerging markets. Malkiel also evaluates the ful

Author: Pal Revesz
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: random, environments, walk, non
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $141.00
ISBN-10: 981256361X
ISBN-13: 9789812563613

The simplest mathematical model of the Brownian motion of physics is the simple, symmetric random walk. This book collects and compares current results — mostly strong theorems which describe the properties of a random walk. The modern problems of the limit theorems of probability theory are treated in the simple case of coin tossing. Taking advantage of this simplicity, the reader is familiarized with limit theorems (especially strong ones) without the burden of technical tools and difficulties. An easy way of considering the Wiener process is also given, through the study of the random wal