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The Buck Starts Here: How the Federal Reserve Can Make or Break Your Financial Future
Published in Hardcover by Prentice Hall Direct (01 January, 1995)
Author: David M. Jones
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Building Financial Derivatives Applications with C++:
Published in Hardcover by Quorum Books (30 March, 2000)
Author: Robert Brooks
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Code Available
If you have shopped around you may be aware that this is one of the only books available that is dedicated to pricing derivatives using C++. Perhaps like me as a student of Pure and Applied Mathematics you have wondered why all those Financial Engineering grad schools are pushing so hard for C++.
You can expect that this book will introduce you to a set of traditional algorithms for option pricing at a basic level. It will be helpful if you already know standard C++, and also if you have seen mathematical models of what is being implemented here.

A must book for MBA's/MS in financial engineering
This book has the contents that a graduate student will look for in a course that covers derivatives application development using C++. Dr. Brooks book is by far the best I have ever scanned for the purpose of finance. For a quant analyst position it is important to understand how to generate various mathematical tools using C++ and the book covers such code in details. The book covers Lattice based solutions through extensive coding of Black Derman and Toy, Monte Carlo simulation, curve fitting techniques and iterative numerical solutions technique .The most attractive part of this book is the simplistic approach to mathematical complexities and Dr. Brooks excels in handling the mathematics and the language. His examples are in Borland C++ so VC or other C users need not be intimidated as the basic C++ principles are the same for any type of proprietary C++ language. In fact Borland is a good way to get introduced to the visual C++ modeling approach at the graduate level, it definitely reduces the entry barrier into coding.

great book
One of the best books in the market. I enjoyed reading it.

Building a Stronger Economic Future for Britain: Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and Budget Report: House of Commons Papers: 1998-99
Published in Paperback by The Stationery Office Books (1999)
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Build Your Financial Future: The Lazy Way (The Lazy Way Series)
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons Inc (01 February, 1999)
Authors: Terence Meany and Mark Battersby
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motivating the cash potato to painlessly save and invest
Meany's quick read shows the cash potato how to find money--even when you think there's none left over--and snag it and make it grow! Down-to-earth, funny, practical, and SIMPLE ("quick and painless," he keeps hammering), the book is well laid-out and well indexed. Even *you* have time to read this book!

This is a good starter book for the uninitiated

It's the perfect book for people like me, a single mom in a secure job with some apprehension about having enough for retirement, with no idea about investing. It would also be a good book for a budding capitalist just starting his or her first job or young marrieds who wanted to get on track before they invested all their hard-earned on Williams-Sonoma's color-of-the-month Cuisinart. The book has neatly packaged chapters which you can skip around in. Though if you don't skip, the chapters keep building on previous ones so you have a sense in a nicely structured way of what this whole money mystery encompasses, in level of importance. I was mostly interested in investing, though there's lots of other information that makes it possible to have something to invest after you've cut expenses and made a will and made sure your insurance is right (well, OK, I didn't read that chapter yet).

I liked the specific examples of, say, discount brokers and internet sites for further research. At the end I didn't feel like I had to be a broker to play with the big kids. So I can read the bidness news now and cross-reference anything I don't understand with Meany's book and impress my kids with my astute planning for their inheritance. The writing has a calming effect, partly because of the humor and partly because of the simplicity with which this arcane knowledge is presented. What I like about all Meany's books is that they teach you to take a deep breath, and then get on with the business at hand.

This stuff really works!!
Just reviewed it today!! Having followed Meany's money advice for the past twenty two years, he's helped me to acquire a 6-figure portfolio, send a kid to college, acquire five different properties (sold three), and manage gifts from my parents' estate. I'm his wife and it works for me!!!

Bonds and Bond Derivatives
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (01 December, 1998)
Authors: Miles Livigston and Miles Livingston
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Good overview for beginners
This book gives a very good review for beginners investing in the US bond market only. If you are a professional it is more a dictionnary, it doesn't analyse properly instruments. I would like to finally see an author able to understand that a bond is a bond, and a book like that should focus on this and not to give us a extensive listing of all US bonds in the market ....Second USA are not anymore the only financial market in the world : so "International" chapter should be at least as important as the rest of the exercise...

Black Monday and the Future of Financial Markets
Published in Hardcover by Bookthrift Co (01 January, 1991)
Author: Robert J. Barro
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Black Monday and Future of Financial Markets
Published in Paperback by McGraw Hill (Tx) (01 June, 1989)
Author: Robert Barro
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Biometrics and the future of money: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, May 20, 1998
Published in Unknown Binding by For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office (1998)
Author: United States
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Beyond Value at Risk : The New Science of Risk Management (Frontiers in Finance Series)
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (18 August, 1999)
Author: Kevin Dowd
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Not for implementors.
The author has done good work in introducing the basic concepts in Value-at-Risk. However, the text leaves some important statistical and implementation points hidden, making implementing VaR look far too easy. For example, there is no discussion about the problems involved in long-term forecasting of correlations and volatilities.

The much advertised "new distinctive investment approach", the so called "Generalized Sharpe Rule" is a rather naive treatment on classical risk/return analysis. However, the lack of mathematical rigour is well compensated with good references.

A concise treatment of VaR
The author goes right to the point. He explains well the VaR-related mathematics. There are a few mistakes, which would be easier to note if all derivations were provided. Overall, this is an excellent book.

Best book on VaR
When we went to implement a VaR system, the price tag was going to exceed seven figures. Needless to say, I didn't hesitate to drop some money buying the available books on VaR. They all say essentially the same things. For practical worked examples, you can't beat Butler. But unless you are an absolute beginner (do you know what delta and gamma are?) you may find it too basic. The all-round best book is Dowd. It is well organized and a pleasure to read. It covers the math, but without getting bogged down in meaningless derivations. For readers who want more information, there are plenty of references to original sources. I followed up on a number of these, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy some of this stuff is to assimilate.

Beyond Majority Thinking: Helping Remove Uncertainty from your Financial Future
Published in Paperback by Smart Press (December, 2002)
Authors: Ronald Schutz and Ronald P. Schutz
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