Here is the smart way to use options to improve investment results. Controlling risk and improving profits from options means determining which call options are undervalued and which are overvalued. Wall Street analyst Gastineau offers a strategy for evaluating options-despite changing economic tides-which can systematically improve investment results. He clarifies this complex subject by writing in clear, nontechnical English, avoiding mathematics, and using graphics.

The stock options manual

Business & Money

Gastineau, Gary L.

Investing

McGraw=Hill

Previous editions '75 and '79 under the title The Stock options manual. Updated and expanded. Explains how to adjust the market risk of investment portfolios and how options can increase an investor's range of risk-return choices. Basically a good, hands-on aid. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Options Manual

Economics

Full coverage of ETF investments from an expert in the field The initial edition of Gary Gastineau's The Exchange-Traded Fund Manual was one of the first books to describe and analyze ETFs. It made the case for the superiority of the structure of investor-friendly ETFs over mutual funds and helped investors select better funds among the ETFs available. With this new edition, Gastineau provides comprehensive information on the latest developments in ETF structures, new portfolio variety, and new trading methods. With a realistic evaluation of today's indexes, Gastineau offers insights on actively managed ETFs, improved index funds, and fund and advisor selection. <ul>
<li>Discusses how to incorporate ETFs into an investment plan</li> <li>Offers updated coverage of new ETFs, including full-function actively managed ETFs, and a valuable chapter on trading ETFs</li> <li>Written by the leading authority on exchange traded funds</li> </ul>
Exchange-traded funds offer you diversification and participation in markets and investment strategies that have not been available to most investors. If you want to understand how to use ETFs effectively, the Second Edition of The Exchanged-Traded Fund Manual can show you how.

The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual

Finance

wiley

Praise for the exchange-traded funds manual "Exchange-traded funds are the hottest finance innovation of the past decade. Gary Gastineau, who played a critical role in their development, demystifies the working of these instruments, lucidly describes their advantages and disadvantages, and guides investors on their use. This gem of a book will be the ETF bible for years to come." -Burton Malkiel, Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics, Princeton University "This is the first comprehensive book on exchange-traded funds.The author displays an institutional and practical knowledge of exchange-traded funds that makes this book necessary reading for not only the knowledgeable investor but for the professional researcher seeking to understand these relatively new investment vehicles." -Martin J. Gruber, Nomura Professor of Finance Stern School of Business, New York University "Gary Gastineau is a national treasure. Exchange-traded funds are the wave of the future, and Gary has been instrumental in their development from day one. His knowledge is encyclopedic, and his style and subtle humor make it all accessible to the reader." -Wayne H. Wagner, Chairman, Plexus Group, Inc. "In Gary Gastineau's brilliant work in illuminating the reader on exchange-traded funds, he provides rich insights into the process and methodology of adding value and cites a convergence of market forces that creates a compelling story for the use of ETFs for those who choose to add value." -Stephen C. Winks, Publisher, Senior Consultant "The introduction of exchange-traded funds was one of the success stories of Wall Street in the 1990s. Gary Gastineau was a key contributor to this success, and his book is an important benchmark on both the current status of this important new category and the vast potential of its next-generation products." -Salvatore Sodano, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer American Stock Exchange

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

SOMEONE WILL MAKE MONEY ON YOUR FUNDS-WHY NOT YOU? 
"This book is a treasure trove of practical research and pithy thoughts based on Gastineau's decades of experience; a valuable guide for the thoughtful investor." —Harold Evensky, Chairman, Evensky, Brown &amp; Katz "Someone Will Make Money On Your Funds - Why Not You? will jar armchair mutual fund investors out of their PJ's. If you think checking out your funds in Morningstar and Lipper has you covered, you best read this book." —Maureen Nevin Duffy, Editor/Publisher, The Turnaround Tactician "This book is a must-read for fund investors. Gastineau carefully discusses many important factors such as taxes, capital gains overhang, trading costs, turnover, benchmark selection, active management, expense ratio, and aggressive trading by market timers. These factors significantly affect fund performance but may be ignored by investors. Gastineau goes on to build a strong case for choosing ETFs over mutual funds, especially for long-term investors. I strongly recommend this book for investors." —Vijay Singal, J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Chairperson of the Finance Department, Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech, and author of Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low-Risk Investing "Gastineau's message is very powerful. He not only challenges some conventional wisdom on investing, but truly emphasizes how to add value to a portfolio. What is unique is his ability to move quickly from the big picture to implementation strategies offering investment solutions to both investment advisors and individual investors. Portfolio adjustments discussed can potentially have significant impact on a long-term investor's standard of living." —Dan Dolan, Director, Wealth Management Strategies, Select Sector SPDRs

Someone Will Make Money on Your Funds - Why Not You?: A Better Way to Pick Mutual and Exchange-Traded Funds

Senior Vice President, New Products Development at the American Stock Exchange 
Risk management is concerned with the tradeoffs between financial risk and reward that inevitably face a firm's managers, its board of directors, and ultimately its shareholders. Although risk management itself is not new, what is new are the complicated financial instruments being used to manage risk-instruments that are frequently classified under the seemingly simple category of "derivatives." Use of these instruments have largely gone unreported in financial statements, much to the dismay of financial analysts and in contrast to their ideal of transparency. This volume explains firm's use of risk management practices and how those practices can be accounted. Coverage includes <ul> <li>a practical and theoretical basis for risk management 
</li> <li>information on how a firm's use of derivatives affects financial analysts 
</li> <li>recent reforms in accounting for derivatives.</li> </ul>

Risk Management, Derivatives, and Financial Analysis under SFAS No. 133

Smith, Donald J.

Todd, Rebecca

Research Foundation of AIMR & Blackwell Publishers

The revolution in derivatives and risk management has created a new financial vocabulary. This remarkable reference gives readers the keys to understanding and using the language of financial risk. Risk management terminology comes from many markets, including cash, forwards/futures, swaps, options and many disciplines such as economics, tax and financial accounting, probability and statistics, and the law. This comprehensive dictionary carefully defines and illustrates the words and phrases of this rapidly changing field.

Dictionary of Financial Risk Management (An Institutional Investor Publication)

Reference

Probus Pub. Co

Gary Gastineau and Mark Kritzman team up once again for the third edition of this classic reference tool designed for financial analysts and managers. Anyone involved in financial risk management must have a proper understanding of the words, terms, and phrases used in this fast paced field-and Dictionary of Financial Risk Management clearly provides that understanding. Risk management terminology is a part of almost any financial operation, including cash, forwards/futures, swaps, options-and is found in many disciplines: probability and statistics, tax and financial accounting, and law. The vocabulary of the risk manager continues to expand with the creation of new products and new concepts. This volume carefully defines and illustrates all the words and phrases that financial professionals need to know and understand. The Dictionary of Financial Risk Management includes listings of common acronyms, profit/loss diagrams of new financial instruments, and extensive coverage of derivatives and quantitative techniques. This invaluable reference guide provides comprehensive definitions of the key terms and concepts that many financial professionals need to know on a day-to-day basis.

Dictionary of Financial Risk Management, Third Edition

Kritzman, Mark P.

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The stock options manual

The Options Manual

The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual

The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual

Someone Will Make Money on Your Funds - Why Not You?: A Better Way to Pick Mutual and Exchange-Traded Funds

Risk Management, Derivatives, and Financial Analysis under SFAS No. 133

Dictionary of Financial Risk Management (An Institutional Investor Publication)

Dictionary of Financial Risk Management, Third Edition