Invaluable perspectives on the progress of inflation protection Recent interest rate increases signal a return to the days of less benign inflation. The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments discusses effective inflation protection vehicles, along with strategies for integrating them into diversified professional portfolios.

The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments: Enhance Performance and Protect Your Portfolio from Inflation Risk

Business & Money

Greer,Robert

Economics

McGraw=Hill

THE SECRETS TO CAPITALIZING ON THE COMMODITIES BOOM 
In the mid-1970s, when Bob Greer scrolled through miles of microfilm in the basement of a public library in order to record commodity prices in his yellow legal pad, the idea of commodities being an investable asset class was way outside the mainstream. Now, it's a multibilliondollar vehicle for achieving portfolio diversification and inflation hedging--and he and his colleagues have written the book on earning better returns than the indexes themselves! In Intelligent Commodity Indexing, Bob joins his fellow leaders of PIMCO's Commodity Practice, Nic Johnson and Mihir Worah, in opening up commodity indexes. Never before has there been a more thorough explanation of how a commodity index works coupled with a powerful set of strategies for making it work for you. Inside, you'll find the most up-to-date tools and time-proven best practices for earning "structural alpha" by capitalizing on recurring risk and liquidity premiums in the commodities markets. It offers the right amount of history and theory to reinforce cuttingedge techniques for:
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<li>Interpreting how seasonal effects change risk premia </li>
<li>Choosing the most profitable market for specific commodity exposure </li>
<li>Using intelligent commodity indexing to collect risk premiums in the options market </li>
<li>Maximizing roll yield in order to increase long-term returns </li>
<li>Managing risk, including specific frameworks and systems</li>
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Investors gain a superior advantage with this book's coverage of the nuts-and-bolts workings of various markets. Praise for Intelligent Commodity Indexing "A seminal work on an asset class that has grown in importance within institutional portfolios. The authors offer considerable insight to this complex asset class and provide investors with a thorough examination of the drivers of risk and return." -- Julia K. Bonafede, CFA, President of Wilshire Consulting "This is an excellent guide for professional investors to successful investing in commodity indexes." -- Blythe Masters, Head of Global Commodities, JP Morgan "A manual written by successful practitioners for intelligent commodity investors. An excellent guide which explains how this asset class complements and interacts with other investments." -- Alan H. Van Noord, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System "Commodities are invaluable tools for investors wishing to benefit from diversification and inflation hedging. For such an investor, this is the authoritative source to all you need to know about commodity indexing." -- Mark Makepeace, Chief Executive, FTSE Group "Greer, Johnson, and Worah simply explain the critical drivers to commodity index returns that have provided the main historical benefits of diversification and inflation protection. Every commodity index investor, or hopeful investor, should read this book and use it as a guide for evaluating the relevant index characteristics for benchmarking and investing, especially given recent industry innovations." -- Jodie Gunzberg, CFA, Director-Commodities, S&amp;P Indexes

Intelligent Commodity Indexing: A Practical Guide to Investing in Commodities

Johnson, Nic

Worah, Mihir P.

Finance

CJ Floyd, an African-American bail bondsman, is asked by a well-connected black judge to track down his missing daughter and finds her in the grip of a radical environmental group willing to kill anyone who knows too much. Reprint.

The Devil's Hatband

Literature & Fiction

United States

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

The Devil's Red Nickel

When his favorite disc jockey, Daddy Doo-Wop, dies on his home turf, CJ Floyd is recruited by the dead man's beautiful daughter to find out why, taking the savvy African-American P.I. into the darkest side of the record business. Reprint.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Grand Central Publishing

A torn piece of scrap paper with a dead man's signature leads C.J. Floyd and former rodeo cowboy Morgan Williams to a struggling energy company that owns what appears to be worthless mountain land that may prove to be much more

The Devil's Backbone

WARNER BOOKS

When one of his closest friends and colleagues, Dr. Tess Gilliam, a Nobel-track scientist, turns up murdered execution style, pathologist Henry Bales believes that her death is linked to the research of maverick scientist Neil Cardashian, who claims to have unlocked the secrets of aging. 15,000 first printing.

Limited Time

Contemporary

Reluctantly agreeing to help a patient to protect his flock of valuable gamecocks, Dr. Carmen Nguyen discovers that the birds, who were raised on uranium-rich soil, hold chromosomal information that a ruthless businessman is trying to steal.

Heat Shock

Property Value Maximizer: Tips & Secrets from America's Top Real Estate & Home Improvement Professionals is for homeowners who are looking to sell their home and get the maximum asking price, as well as for homeowners who want to protect their investment and stabilize its value against the volatile real estate market.In the chapters that follow, you will gain insights and highly valuable information, from a diverse range of real estate and home improvement professionals. These professionals are going to arm you with the knowledge that you need to protect and optimize the value of your property, relative to other homes in your market.We're confident that you will enjoy the interviews that follow. Upon completion of this book, you will have an almost unfair advantage over most homeowners, who think that they have no control over how to protect the value of their home. After reading this book, you will realize how much is directly within your control!

Property Value Maximizer: Tips & Secrets From America's Top Real Estate & Home Improvement Professionals

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Franklin, Chris

Group, Rymor Publishing

Jones, Al

Werenka, Derek

Blyth, Stephen M

Tuck Jr, Jerald

Worley, Dan

Daley, Donald R

Schober, Bob

Home Improvement & Design

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. Hitchhiking near Hardin, Montana, Spoon falls in with a ranching family struggling to keep their ranch afl oat amidst the pressures of hard economic times and an encroaching coal company. Proving himself a gifted ranch hand and mentor, Spoon charges himself with rescuing the Darleys and guiding the family’s teenage son TJ on his path to manhood. While Spoon’s checkered past includes a prison stint and a navy tour of Vietnam, it is his tenacity, wisdom, and charm that end up defining this quintessential Western man. Award-Winning: Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction Category, IPPY Finalist, Best Fiction/Short Novel Category, Spur Award Finalist, Best Fiction Category, High Plains Book Award

Spoon

Fulcrum

Robert Greer’s latest novel—a prequel to his CJ Floyd mystery series—takes readers back in time to a very young CJ Floyd. It’s 1972, and the 22-year-old decorated war vet has recently returned to Denver from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. Navigating depression, he finds a friend in World War II vet and amputee Wiley Ames, who shares his passion for rare and valuable western memorabilia. When Ames and a mysterious Chinese man are found murdered, CJ’s already fragile world threatens to collapse. His attempts to find his friend’s killer are thwarted at every turn, and finally he joins his Uncle Ike’s business as bail bondsman and bounty hunter. Five years later one of Ames’s treasured antique license plates turns up at a Denver flea market, and CJ is once again off and running. The trail to Wiley Ames’s murderer leads CJ down a dark path strewn with backstabbing antique dealers, conniving friends and relatives of Ames’s, and a shadowy musician. Equally a white-knuckle-ride murder mystery and a tale of a traumatized young man coming to terms with his past, First of State features the kind of fresh characters, street-smart dialogue, and ingenious plot twists that have made this series a critical and commercial success.

First of State (CJ Floyd Mystery Series)

North Atlantic Books

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