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Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff

By: Christine S. Richard

Bloomberg Press

The collapse of Americas credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Streets Bluffis the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billion when bond insurers kicked off the collapse of the credit markets.

• Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama
• Draws on unprecedented access to one of Wall Street's best-known investors
• Sho...

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Wiley

With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.

The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It

By: Douglas W. Hubbard

Wiley

An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach

The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, Hubbard reveals critical flaws in risk management methodsand shows how all of these problems can be fixed. The solutions involve combinations of scientifically proven and frequently used methods from nuclear power, exploratory oil, and other areas of business and government. Finally, Hubbard explains how new forms of collaboration across all industries and government can improve risk managem...

Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement

By: Michelle A. Green, Jo Ann C. Rowell

Delmar Cengage Learning

Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide you with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, you will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Exercises in each chapter provide plenty of practice for learning how to bill and reimburse, and the accompanying workbook provides more application-based assignments for each chapter as well as additional case studies to reinforce your knowledge. The text includes free software that allows you to test your knowledge.

Trading Options For Dummies

By: George A. Fontanills

For Dummies

Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.

This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. Youll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. Youll also find what you need to know about options contract specifi...

The Essentials of Risk Management

By: Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark, Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark

McGraw-Hill

Associate PRM Certificate Exam Registration

The Associate Professional Risk Manager (PRM) is a new PRMIA certificate program intended for staff entering the risk management profession, or those who interface with risk management disciplines on a regular basis, such as auditing, accounting, legal, and systems development personnel who want to understand fundamental risk management methods and practices. Designed to be mathematically and theoretically less detailed than the Professional Risk Manager (PRM(tm)) certification, the new program will cover the core concepts allowing non-specialists to interpret risk management information and reports, make critical assessments and evaluate the implications and the limitations of such results.

Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram

By: Bisys Educational Services

Pearson Education

If you are studying for your life and health insurance licensing exam, we have the ultimate study tool for you. Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram is a great resource to help you learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive a CD that includes a fully-customizable test engine, detailed score report and state-specific law supplement. No matter where you are taking your exam or which area you need to focus on during your studying, Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram is your smartest way to get certified.

Trading Futures For Dummies

By: Joe Duarte MD

For Dummies

Explore single-stock futures, ETFs, and alternative energy futures

Protect your assets and maximize your profits in this risky yet lucrative market

Want to take advantage of the futures market? This plain-English guide gives you the surefire strategies you need to be a successful trader, with up-to-the-minute advice on the various types of futures, conducting research, finding a broker, entering and exiting positions, and minimizing your losses. You also get bearish and bullish strategies and tips for trading online.

Discover how to:

• Understand trends in the global economy
• Use charting patterns and indicators
• Execute successful trades
• Set realistic goals
• Avoid common trading pitfall...

Questions and Answers on Life Insurance: The Life Insurance Toolbook

By: Anthony Steuer

Life Insurance Sage Press

Questions and Answers on Life Insurance is an extremely useful and one of a kind resource for anyone looking for a simple way to understand life insurance. It covers all the basics and the advanced information that you need to know. And all this in a format where can go directly to the information you need without having to sort through information you're not looking for.

Author Tony Steuer brings 17 years of experience in the life insurance. During this time Tony has guided clients with purchasing their life insurance and the ongoing maintenance of policies. He has also worked with professional advisors on reviewing their client's policies and determining needs. Tony has helped to keep client's, where possible, from unpleasant surprises. Questions and Answers on Life I...

Professional Review Guide for the CCA Examination, 2010 Edition

By: Patricia Schnering

Delmar Cengage Learning

Use the Professional Review Guide for the CCA Examination, 2010 ROM to help you prepare for the Certified Coding Associate (CCA) certification examination. Practice interpreting documentation and applying your knowledge in assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures for a variety of patient settings. This book also includes an interactive CD-ROM of the mock examination for real-world test taking practice.

Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram

By: Bisys Educational Services

Pearson Education

If you are preparing for a career in property and casualty insurance, you need to pick up a copy of Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram. You will quickly learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive a CD that includes a fully-customizable test engine, detailed score report and state-specific law supplement. No matter where you are taking your exam or which area you need to focus on in your studies, Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam Cram is your smartest way to get certified.

The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World (with a New Preface)

By: Ian Bremmer, Preston Keat

Oxford University Press, USA

As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the power of their impact, the "tail" of extreme political instability is not reassuringly thin but dangerously fat.
Featuring a new Foreward that accounts for the cataclysmic effects of the 2008 financial crisis, The Fat Tail is the first book to both identify the wide range of political risks that global firms face and show investors how to effectively manage them. Written by two of the world's leading figures in political risk management, it reveals that while the world re...

New Life Insurance Investment Advisor: Achieving Financial Security for You and your Family Throu...

By: Ben Baldwin

McGraw-Hill

"For anyone who needs to understand different types of life insurance, as well as considerations for purchasing and managing policies, this book should be on your nearby reference shelf. If you've frequently found yourself fumbling around with terminology, such as the differences between variable, universal, and variable universal life (VUL) policies, you'll finally see some light through the haze." - MorningstarAdvisor.com

Life insurance doesn't have to be complex or intimidating. Ben Baldwin's completely revised and updated guidebook makes it clear and logical, discussing how to analyze insurance products based on their investment merits and best overall financial returns. This clear, authoritative resource for consumer insurance information covers the pros and cons o...

Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project

By: Tom Kendrick PMP

AMACOM

There's a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It's no wonder that project managers are increasingly focusing their attention on risk identification.

Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a practical guide to minimizing the possibility of failure in critical projects. The book takes readers step by step through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Relevant figures and diagrams support the text and illustrate key scenarios. At the end of each chapter is an analysis of how th...

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (10th Edition)

By: George E. Rejda

Addison Wesley

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance focuses primarily on the consumers of insurance, and the text blends basic risk management and insurance principles with consumer considerations. Praised for its depth and breadth of coverage, the Tenth Edition provides even more flexibility in its organization by giving an overview of the insurance industry first, before discussing specific plans.
Basic Concepts in Risk Management and Insurance: Risk in Our Society; Insurance and Risk; Introduction to Risk Management; Advanced Topics in Risk Management; The Private Insurance Industry: Types of Insurers and Marketing Systems; Insurance Company Operations; Financial Operations of Insurers; Government Regulation of Insurance; Legal Principles in Risk an...

Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office

By: Marilyn Fordney CMA-AC

Saunders

Keep current with all the latest changes with this complete resource! Trusted by medical insurance instructors and billers for more than 30 years, Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office helps you excel at all aspects of insurance billing for a full range of today's health care plans. In full color, this edition includes all the new regulations, such as the latest information on HIPAA, diagnostic coding, procedural coding, bill collection strategies, and Medicare.

• Meticulously reviewed by a panel of industry experts.
• Emphasis on the business of running a medical office highlights the importance of the medical insurance specialist's role in filing clean claims, solving problems, and collecting overdue payments.
• Key terms are bolded at first mention, exp...

Insurance for Dummies

By: Jack Hungelmann

For Dummies

Now updated — your guide to getting the best insurance policy

Are you intimidated by insurance? Have no fear — this easy-to-understand guide explains everything you need to know, from getting the most coverage at the best price to dealing with adjusters, filing claims, and more. Whether you're looking for personal or business insurance, you'll see how to avoid common pitfalls, lower your costs, and get what you deserve at claim time.

• Get to know the basics — understand how to make good insurance decisions and reduce the chances of a financial loss in your life

Take your insurance on the road — manage your personal automobile risks, handle special situations, insure recreational vehicles, and deal with insurance ad...

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (11th Edition) (The Prentice Hall Series in Finance)

By: George E. Rejda

Prentice Hall

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance focuses primarily on the consumers of insurance, and the text blends basic risk management and insurance principles with consumer considerations.

Risk in Our Society; Insurance and Risk; Introduction to Risk Management; Advanced Topics in Risk Management; Types of Insurers and Marketing Systems; Insurance Company Operations; Financial Operations of Insurers; Government Regulation of Insurance; Fundamental Legal Principles; Analysis of Insurance Contracts; Life Insurance; Life Insurance Contractual Provisions; Buying Life Insurance; Annuities and Individual Retirement Accounts; Individual Health Insurance Coverages; Employee Benefits: Group Life and Health Insurance; Employee Benefits: Retirement Plans; Social Insu...

The New Health Insurance Solution: How to Get Cheaper, Better Coverage Without a Traditional Empl...

By: Paul Zane Pilzer

Wiley

You no longer need a traditional employer plan to get good, affordable health insurance. The New Health Insurance Solution can help you cut your health insurance costs in half if:

• You're self-employed, an independent contractor, or your employer doesn't provide health insurance (you can probably get coverage on your own for about $94/montha fraction of what an employer would have to pay for the same coverage)
• You are employed and pay extra to cover your spouse or children under your employer-sponsored planyou may save 50% by taking them off your employer plan
• You own a small business and are getting killed by double-digit premium increasesyou can now give employees tax-free money to buy their own plans and get your company out of the health insuranc...

Professional Review Guide for the CCS Examination, 2010 Edition (Professional Review Guide for th...

By: Patricia Schnering

Delmar Cengage Learning

The Professional Review Guide for the CCS Examination, 2010 Edition and interactive CD-ROM is essential to help you prepare you for the AHIMA Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) examination. Practice interpreting documentation and applying your knowledge in assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures for a variety of patient settings.

3-2-1 Code It!

By: Michelle A. Green

Delmar Cengage Learning

3-2-1 CODE IT! is your comprehensive learning resource for coding. This book combines ICD-9-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Level II coding concepts into one convenient package and offers a level of detail suitable for beginning and more experienced coders alike. When you are ready to earn a coding credential, this book will continue to help you prepare and practice. The book includes an overview of coding systems, career opportunities for coders, the importance of joining professional organizations and obtaining credentials, the impact of working with other coding professionals, and how to develop opportunities for career advancement.

Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It

By: Joseph Matthews Attorney

NOLO

Get the best care in the right place, for the right price -- this book shows you how!

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. Long-Term Care helps you understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to find the best care you can afford.

With Long-Term Care you'll be able to:

evaluate long-term care insurance

arrange home care

explore options beyond nursing homes

choose a nursing facility

get the most out of Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs

protect your assets, and

recognize and prevent elder fraud.

The completely updated 7th edition has an all-new chapter on long-term care insur...

Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management

By: Aswath Damodaran

Wharton School Publishing

Front Flap

In business and investing, risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies can lose money due to risk and therefore we typically penalize companies for taking risks. That’s why most books on risk management focus strictly on hedging or mitigating risk.

But the enterprise’s relationship with risk should be far more nuanced. Great companies become great because they seek out and exploit intelligent risks, not because they avoid all risk. Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management is the first book to take this broader view, encompassing both risk hedging at one end of the spectrum and strategic...

A Trader's Money Management System: How to Ensure Profit and Avoid the Risk of Ruin (Wiley Trading)

By: Bennett A. McDowell

Wiley

Money management may very well be the most important piece of the trading puzzle. In A Trader's Money Management System, expert Bennett McDowell provides time-tested techniques that can turn a losing trader into a winning one?and take the winning trader to an entirely new level. In revealing his personal approach to staying out of trouble in the financial markets and maximizing profits, he offers comprehensive insights into:

• The psychology of risk control as well as the finer aspects of setting stop-loss exits

• The value of managing trade size and consistent record keeping

• The process of putting together your own personal money management system

Unlike other books that focus on the complex m...

Medical Billing 101

By: Michelle M. Rimmer

Delmar Cengage Learning

Learn the basics of physician-based medical billing with Medical Billing 101. Clear and practical guidelines introduce you to the job responsibilities and basic processes comprising the medical billing world. Case studies and application tools offer you practice on actual forms to build confidence in your new knowledge and skills. This resource starts you off right on your journey to becoming a medical billing professional.

Professional Review Guide for the RHIA and RHIT Examinations, 2010 Edition (Professional Review G...

By: Patricia Schnering

Delmar Cengage Learning

Are you ready for your exam? Use the Professional Review Guide for the RHIA and RHIT Examinations, 2010 Edition and the interactive CD-ROM to help you prepare for the AHIMA Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) certification examinations. This packed resource maps to the most current AHIMA-COC standards and provides strategies, test-taking skills, and a great comprehensive mock examination to practice.

The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies

By: Jeffrey Katz, Donna McCormick

McGraw-Hill

The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is for traders who want to take the next step to consistently profitable trading. The authors--themselves seasoned veterans of the futures trading arena--pinpoint the trading methods and strategies that have been shown to produce market-beating returns. Their rigorous and systematic backtesting of each method, using the same sets of markets and analytic techniques, provides a scientific, system-based approach to system development...to help you assemble the trading system that will put you on the road to becoming a more consistently profitable trader.

Executive's Guide to Risk Management and Insurance - Reduce The Risk/Boost Your Bottom Line

By: R. Scott Wolff

Aardvark Global Publishing Company; Kindle edition

Product Description
This guide was written for the astute executive, CEO, CFO, Controller, COO, VP, Board Member or Business Owner, who appreciates the complexity and importance of insurance issues and who wants to realize all the profit-boosting potential the right decisions afford the company. In too many situations insurance decisions are made piecemeal - over time - at varying levels of corporate responsibility - without an understanding of needs and coverage, costs and benefits - with little or no sense of how the varieties of insurance-related decisions intersect or interact. The objective of the book is to inform the executive in often-overlooked opportunities and share insights and strategies for maximizing the benefits of a comprehensive, well-considered insurance plan. The ...

Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets (The Wiley Finance Series)

By: Jon Gregory

Wiley

The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profile institutions such as Bear Sterns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The sudden realisation of extensive counterparty risks has severely compromised the health of global financial markets. Counterparty risk is now a key problem for all financial institutions.

This book explains the emergence of counterparty risk during the recent credit crisis. The quantification of firm-wide credit exposure for trading desks and businesses is discussed alongside risk mitigation methods such as net...

Medical Insurance: An Integrated Claims Process Approach

By: Joanne Valerius, Nenna Bayes, Cynthia Newby, Janet Seggern

Career Education

The fourth edition of Medical Insurance: An Integrated Claims Process Approach is designed for medical insurance courses. The textbook provides medical assisting, medical insurance, and health information technology students with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully perform insurance and billing related duties.

The chapters organization follows the medical billing process to enhance learning, moving from a comprehensive introductory chapter through processing RA/EOBs and handling patient collections. Every chapter has extensive illustrations, forms, and exercises to develop the required competencies as well as exercises to improve underlying essential math and communications skills. This text also provides a fundamental understanding of diagnostic and procedural cod...

Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's Executives...

Wiley

Essential insights on the various aspects of enterprise risk management

If you want to understand enterprise risk management from some of the leading academics and practitioners of this exciting new methodology, Enterprise Risk Management is the book for you. Through in-depth insights into what practitioners of this evolving business practice are actually doing as well as anticipating what needs to be taught on the topic, John Fraser and Betty Simkins have sought out the leading experts in this field to clearly explain what enterprise risk management is and how you can teach, learn, and implement these leading practices within the context of your business activities. In this book, the authors take a broad view of ERM, or what is called a holistic approach to ERM. ...

Adkisson's Captive Insurance Companies: An Introduction to Captives, Closely-Held Insurance Compa...

By: Jay D Adkisson

iUniverse, Inc.

A captive insurance company is, in a nutshell, an insurance company formed by a business owner to insure the risks of the operating business. The operating business pays premiums to the captive, and the captive insures the risks of the operating business. A captive is much more than an exotic form of self-insurance: It is the creation of a new insurance company that has the potential to grow from being a mere captive into a full-blown insurance company seeking to profit from underwriting the risks of others. Adkissons Captive Insurance Companies provides a basic introduction to captives and their benefits, including: utilize your own experience ratings; recapture underwriting profits; underwrite exposed risks and deductibles; access the reinsurance markets; and transfer wealth b...

Property/Casualty Insurance, a Basic Guide: For Adjusters, Underwriters, Agents, Brokers, Attorne...

By: Ernest H. Gore

Elizabeth Publishing Company

A simple to understand book, written for business owners and managers, as well as for insurance professionals. It covers valuable and helpful information on many types of insurance policies, including terms, conditions, types of companies, specific policy forms, etc. There is information on the history of insurance, the various duties of many people involved in insurance, and what the various insurance policies cover or do not cover. The Glossary contains more than 460 legal and insurance terms to use as a quick desk reference.

Crisis Leadership Now: A Real-World Guide to Preparing for Threats, Disaster, Sabotage, and Scandal

By: Laurence Barton

McGraw-Hill

Why do some managers shine during a high-level crisis while others stumble? Those who have an action plan in place are the ones who can react quickly, manage rumors, and respond to victims and stakeholders sincerely and adequately while keeping their organization afloat.

Leading crisis management expert Laurence Barton has spent more than two decades consulting with top companies on how to anticipate and respond to workplace threats and tragedies. In Crisis Leadership Now he offers concrete solutions for managing disruptive events-from industrial accidents and acts of violence to embezzlement, product recalls, and terrorism. Barton takes you through his journey of advising senior executives on crisis events and examines:

• The characteristics tha...

Investment Guarantees: The New Science of Modeling and Risk Management for Equity-Linked Life Ins...

By: Mary Hardy

Wiley

Praise for InvestmentGuarantees

"In addition to being a valuable and innovative addition to the literature on risk management of equity-linked insurance, this book provides a uniquely clear demonstration of using different measures in a very practical context. A great way of showing actuaries how to `mind their Ps and Qs'!"
—Boris Brizeli
Principal and Chief Operations Officer
GE Insource Limited

"This is an extremely well written and comprehensive book which will be useful for both practitioners and graduate students. It provides a unique synthesis of techniques and tools in econometrics, financial engineering, and simulation applied to questions of fundamental importance in insurance."
—Dr. Andrew Cairns
Reader in ...

Medical Insurance Made Easy: Understanding the Claim Cycle

By: Jill Brown RN CPC CPC- H

Saunders

This combination textbook and workbook, explains each phase of the medical claim cycle, from the time the patient calls for an appointment until the financial transaction for the encounter is completed. Coverage includes types of insurance payers, basic coding and billing rules, and standard requirements for outpatient billing using the CMS-1500 claim form. It also emphasizes legal aspects related to each level of the medical claim cycle and the importance of the medical office employee, showing their responsibility for and impact on successful reimbursement.

• 3 separate chapters offer coverage of the basic concepts of medical coding.
• A comprehensive overview of the CMS-1500 claim form with step-by-step guidelines and illustrations thoroughly covers reimbursement i...

Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance

By: Emmett J. Vaughan, Therese M. Vaughan

Wiley

This classic book presents a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the field of insurance while emphasizing the consumer. The new Tenth Edition first examines the concept of risk, the nature of the insurance device, and the principles of risk management. It then discusses the traditional fields of life and health insurance as solutions to the risks connected with the loss of income. And it deals with the risks associated with the ownership of property and legal liability.

The Wedge: How to Stop Selling and Start Winning

By: Randy Schwantz

National Underwriter Company

The Wedge offers a powerful, proven technique to distinguish you from the incumbent agent and help you win new business. You will dramatically increase your "win ratio" and add satisfied clients to your book of business by researching a potential client, building rapport, and discovering the client's inner dissatisfaction in the current relationship.
Learn Why Traditional Selling Doesn t Work
Learn What You Need To Know To Win Rapport, Discovery, Differentiation
The Six Steps of The Wedge
Wedge Scripting Aids
and More!
Randy Schwantz s The Wedge strips away the theoretical and packs in the most practical sales techniques to come along in the last ten years. If a salesperson is not Driving the Wedge, they re just spinning their wheels!
Richard F. Yadon, ...

Auto Accident Personal Injury Insurance Claim: How to Evaluate and Settle Your Loss

By: Dan Baldyga

1st Books Library

Eight out of ten Americans will have an accident in the next seven years. Baldyga delivers over three decades of personal injury, insurance claim experience in this easy-to-read book. Learn how to settle your "pain and suffering" for top dollar.

Insurance Commander: How to Sell Property and Casualty Business Insurance

By: Baxter Dunbar

Business Insurance Publishing

What's Wrong With Your Life Insurance

By: Norman F. Dacey

Macmillan General Reference

Building the Master Agency: The System Is the Solution

By: Garry D. Kinder, Val Ivanov, Jack Kinder

National Underwriter Company

Discover how to build a world-class agency from the masters of the industry.

Systematic approach has proven effective at increasing success and aiding producers to reach their greatest potential. Shares valuable trade secrets and time tested techniques for charting your course and sticking to it. Packed with invaluable tips on achieving sustainable performance and profits featuring 10 topic specific systems from training to marketing to motivating and more.

The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century

By: Robert J. Shiller

Princeton University Press

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income from our livelihoods and homes. But these ''ordinary riches,'' so fundamental to our well-being, are increasingly exposed to the pervasive risks of a rapidly changing global economy. This compelling and important new book presents a fresh vision for hedging risk and securing our economic future.

Shiller describes six fundamental ideas for using modern information technology and advanc...

Commercial General Liability

By: Donald S. Malecki, Arthur L. Flitner

National Underwriter Company

Let the Industry's most renowned CGL experts take you to the heart of general liability exposures and problems. This guide is the only resource to provide an in-depth, year-to-year comparison of over 20 years of the CGL form. You'll also find court case citations that clarify the policy, summaries of all major endorsements to the forms and tips on how to tailor a policy to meet the needs of your clients. Commercial General Liability, 8th Edition has been updated to include the most recent exclusions and exceptions of the CGL form.

Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Ot...

By: Anthony Saunders, Linda Allen

Wiley

A classic book on credit risk management is updated to reflect the current economic crisis

Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis dissects the 2007-2008 credit crisis and provides solutions for professionals looking to better manage risk through modeling and new technology. This book is a complete update to Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, reflecting events stemming from the recent credit crisis.

Authors Anthony Saunders and Linda Allen address everything from the implications of new regulations to how the new rules will change everyday activity in the finance industry. They also provide techniques for modeling-credit scoring, structural, and reduced form models-while offering sound ...

Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives (2nd Edition)

By: John Marthinsen

Addison Wesley

In an approachable, non-technical manner, Risk Takers brings eight modern financial derivatives situations to life, fully exploring the context of each event and evaluating the outcomes. Primer on Derivatives; Employee Stock Options: What Every MBA Student Should Know; Roche Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants; Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows; Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble versus Bankers Trust; Orange County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History; Barings Bank PLC: Leeson’s Lessons; Long Term Capital Mismanagement: “JM & The Arb Boys”; Amaranth Advisors LLC: Using Natural Gas Futures to Bet on the Weather. For ...

Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It

By: Jay M. Feinman

Portfolio Hardcover

An expose of insurance injustice and a plan for consumers and lawmakers to fight it

Over the last two decades, insurance has become less of a safety net and more of a spider's web: sticky and complicated, designed to ensnare as much as to aid. Insurance companies now often try to delay payment of justified claims, deny payment altogether, and defend these actions by forcing claimants to enter litigation.

Jay M. Feinman, a legal scholar and insurance expert, explains how these trends developed, how the government ought to fix the system, and what the rest of us can do to protect ourselves. He shows that the denial of valid claims is not occasional or accidental or the fault of a few bad employees. It's the result of an increasing and systematic focus on maximiz...

Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation (Third Ed...

By: ABS Consulting - Lee N. Vanden Heuvel, Donald K. Lorenzo, Randal L. Montgomery, Walter E. Hanson,...

Rothstein Associates Inc.

The Root Cause Analysis Handbook presents a proven system for investigating, categorizing (and ultimately eliminating) the root causes of incidents with safety, health, environmental, quality, reliability, and production-process impacts. Understanding and applying the processes outlined in this book increases your business ability to recover from and prevent incidents with financial and health/safety implications. The book outlines ABS Consultings SOURCE(TM) (Seeking Out the UndeRlying Causes of Events) root cause analysis (RCA) system, enabling businesses to generate specific, concrete recommendations for preventing incident recurrences. The instructions for performing RCA activities include: - Initiating an investigation: How to determine whether an incident has occurred, how to c...

22 Keys to Sales Success: How to Make It Big in Financial Services

By: James M. Benson, Paul Karasik

Bloomberg Press

In the past few years, the financial industry has undergone dynamic structural changes that have deeply affected the sales process. Bruised by market volatility, todays consumer is skeptical and demands more for less. You need fresh approaches to sell in todays tough marketplace.

Here are the 22 Keys that can help any financial professional make more money, work less, and maximize their potential. Industry leaders James Benson and Paul Karasik combine their personal experience with the shared wisdom of the masters. Each key contains proven, actionable sales guidelines, including:

* The four primary fears that could destroy your saleand how to help your prospects overcome them * The nine most effective strategic approaches to "target marketing" success * Five guidelines...

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, Third Edition

By: James F. Broder

Butterworth-Heinemann

Security and risk management are principally concerned with the protection and conservation of corporate assets and resources. The task of protection continues to be an increasingly complex one in a time when technology is creating new products (and thus risk) at an explosive rate. Add this to the crime rate -- now aggravated by domestic and international terrorism -- and the importance of risk analysis and evaluation to design proper protection becomes self-evident.

With an awareness of the growing threat of global terrorism, the third edition of RISK ANALYSIS AND THE SECURITY SURVEY has been completely updated. It includes two new chapters covering disaster recover planning, mitigation, and the evolving methodologies that are a result of the Homeland Security Act. The followin...