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New Additions to the Actuarial Profession's Libraries, August 2011

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Books

Business and Management

 Scottish Business Insider deals and dealmakers yearbook. - Scottish Business Insider. - 2011 ed. - Insider Group, 2011. - 168 pages. [No: 62711]

Climate change / Environment
Towards green growth. - OECD, 2011. - 142 pages. - ISBN: 9789264094970. [No: 45440]

Towards green growth : monitoring progress: OECD indicators. -  OECD, 2011. - 141 pages. - ISBN: 9789264111349. [No: 45439]

Demography
World fertility policies 2011 - United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. - United Nations, 2011. - 18 folded leaves pages. - ISBN: 9789211514810. [No: 45420]

Economics and finance
Financial engineering. - Handbooks in operations research and management science, v. 15. - Birge, John R.; Linetsky, Vadim. - 1st ed. - Elsevier Science, 2008. - xii, 1014 p. pages. - ISBN: 9780444517814. [No: 45424]

Measuring the wealth of nations: The political economy of national accounts. - Shaikh, Anwar M.; Tonak, E. Ahmet. - Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 380 pages. - ISBN: 0521564794. [No: 73674]

Scottish Business Insider deals and dealmakers yearbook. - Scottish Business Insider. - 2011 ed. - Insider Group, 2011. - 168 pages. [No: 62711]

Towards green growth. - OECD, 2011. - 142 pages. - ISBN: 9789264094970. [No: 45440]

Towards green growth : monitoring progress: OECD indicators. -  OECD, 2011. - 141 pages. - ISBN: 9789264111349. [No: 45439]

Investment
The AAA handbook 2011 : a new dimension. - Barclays Capital. - 9th ed. - Barclays Capital, 2011. - 762 pages. [No: 45404]

 Scottish Business Insider deals and dealmakers yearbook. - Scottish Business Insider. - 2011 ed. - Insider Group, 2011. - 168 pages. [No: 62711]

Miscellaneous
Metadata for digital collections : a how-to-do-it manual. - Miller, Stephen J. - Facet Publishing, 2011. - xxiii, 343 pages. - ISBN: 9781856047715. [No: 45405]

Mortality
Explaining divergent levels of longevity in high-income countries. - Crimmins, Eileen M; Preston, Samuel H; Cohen, Barney. - National Academies Press, 2011. - xi, 182 p. pages. - ISBN: 9780309186407. [No: 45380]

Pensions
Good governance for pension schemes. - Law Practitioner Series. - Thornton, Paul; Fleming, Donald. - Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xii, 310 p. pages. - ISBN: 9780521761611. [No: 45422]

Risk management
Financial engineering. - Handbooks in operations research and management science, v. 15. - Birge, John R.; Linetsky, Vadim. - 1st ed. - Elsevier Science, 2008. - xii, 1014 p. pages. - ISBN: 9780444517814. [No: 45424]

Longevity risk. - McWilliam, Emma. - Risk Books, 2011. - xxiv, 355 p. pages. - ISBN: 9781906348533. [No: 45091]
Risk management in organizations: An integrated case study approach. - Woods, Margaret. - Routledge, 2011. - 176 pages. - ISBN: 9780415591737. [No: 73675]

Strategic risk management practice : how to deal effectively with major corporate exposures. - Andersen, Torben Juul; Schroder, Peter Winther. - Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xxi, 245 p. pages. - ISBN: 9780521132152. [No: 45423]

 

Journals

Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 67, 4 (Jul/Aug) (2011)

  • Diversification return, portfolio rebalancing, and the commodity return puzzle. - Willenbrock, Scott. [No: 45411]
  • Identifying characteristics to predict separately managed account performance. - Peterson, James D; Iachini, Michael J; Lam, Wynce. [No: 45410]
  • The limits to arbitrage revisited: the accrual and asset growth anomalies. - Li, Xi; Sullivan, Rodney N. [No: 45412]
  • Pricing credit default swaps with option-implied volatility. - Cao, Charles; Yu, Fan; Zhong, Zhaodong. [No: 45413]
  • What factors drive analyst forecasts? - Groysberg, Boris; Healy, Paul; Nohria, Nitin; Serafeim, George. [No: 45409]
  • The winners' game. - Ellis, Charles D. [No: 45408]

Journal of Asset Management, vol. 12 (4) (2011)

  • Buy side risk management : managing fees at risk. - Scherer, Bernd. [No: 45441]
  • Corporate name change and shareholder wealth effect: Empirical evidence in the French Stock Market. - Karim, Bicha. [No: 45418]
  • Does market timing or issue type affect the long-run performance of UK American Depository Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange? - Schaub, Mark. [No: 45414]
  • Does size affect mutual fund performance? A general approach. - Bodson, Laurent; Cavenaile, Laurent; Sougne, Danielle. [No: 45415]
  • Estimation risk in covariance. - Cho, David D. [No: 45443]
  • Financial crisis and the changing nature of volatility contagion in the Asia-Pacific region. - Chakrabarti, Gagari. [No: 45416]
  • Forecasting medium-term returns and testing their value in constructing a simple portfolio. - Baker, Alastair. [No: 45442]
  • Investigating the effectiveness of robust portfolio optimization techniques. - Guastaroba, Gianfranco; Mitra, Gautam; Speranza, M. Grazia. [No: 45444]
  • Performance evaluation of mutual fund investments: The impact of non-normality and time-varying volatility. - Vrontos, Ioannis D.; Meligkotsidou, Loukia; Vrontos, Spyridon D. [No: 45446]
  • Profitable mean reversion after large price drops: A story of day and night in the S&P 500, 400 MidCap and 600 SmallCap Indices. - Dunis, Christian L; Laws, Jason; Rudy, Jozef. [No: 45417]
  • Simple and optimal alpha strategy selection and risk budgeting or Goodbye to 91.5 per cent and all that. - Scott, Robert. [No: 45419]
  • Skill or luck? The role of strategies and scenario analysis as a competitive differentiator for fund management firms. - Tugwell, Jem. [No: 45445]