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Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money
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Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money

by Larry Light
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 27m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money

Index

Abacus 2007-ACI

Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs)

Alcoa Inc.

Alternative investments

art

commodities

futures contracts

gold

master limited partnership (MLP)

oil

rice

timber

foreign exchange trading

currency contracts

foreign certificates of deposit (CDs)

Akre, Chuck

Amaranth Advisors

American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)

American Express

American International Group (AIG)

Anchoring

Andreassen, Paul

Apple

AQR Capital

Arab oil embargo (1970s)

Ariel Investments

Arnott, Robert

Art, investing in

The Ascent of Money (Ferguson)

“Asian contagion” (1997)

Asness, Clifford

Asset allocation

bonds

cash and cash equivalents

hard or real assets

stocks

target-date funds

Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk (Gibson)

Asset-backed securities

Availability bias

Bailey, Tom

Bank of America

Barbarians at the Gate (Kravis)

Bare, Rod

The Battle for Investment Survival (Loeb)

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (Peterson)

Beebower, Gilbert

Behaviorism

anchoring

availability bias

confirmation bias

endowment effect

herd behavior

“Linda problem”

loss aversion

mental accounting

neglecting the base rate

overconfidence

recency

“sunk cost” fallacy

Berkshire Hathaway

Bid-ask spread

Birinyi, Laszlo

Cyrano Principle

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Taleb)

Blankinship, John

Bogle, John

Bold, Adam

Bonds

corporate

effect of inflation on

junk

municipal

poor credit quality and

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)

zero-coupon

Bonds Now! (Cohen)

Bretton Woods agreement (1944)

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