Download or read book Visualizing Architecture Volume 4 written by Alex Hogrefe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architecture portfolio designed by Alex Hogrefe describing 4 original projects with a focus on unique representational techniques and styles.
Download or read book Princeps written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in the bestselling Imager Portfolio
Download or read book Visualizing Architecture Volume 5 written by Alex Hogrefe and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by professional architectural visualizer, Alex Hogrefe, Volume 05 explores graphics and illustrative techniques as they relate to architectural visualization. This book sets up a broad range of graphical approaches to more effectively craft an engaging portfolio. Four architectural projects are used as a base through which a series of graphical representations are organized to tell the story of each design. Rich colors, diverse textures, strong compositional layouts, and contemporary typefaces are all brought together to form a creative modern architectural portfolio. More information on how many of these illustrations were created can be found on Alex's website, www.visualizingarchitecture.com.
Download or read book The Portfolio Architect written by Greg Phelps and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investing can be scary! But with the right education and a great strategy it doesn't have to be. There are tens of thousands of mutual funds and ETFs, limitless trading and investing strategies, and no shortage of bad financial advice from self-serving commission-seeking brokers. You must learn to separate the worthless from the worthwhile to be a great investor. The Portfolio Architect cuts through the rubbish with the 5 most critical aspects of investing (the 5 Keys). You'll learn simple to understand concepts, processes, and practices which will help you design, implement, monitor, and manage your Ultimate Investment Plan like the world's largest institutions and professional investors do.The 5 critical components to successful investing are: 1) learning the basics of stocks, bonds and other asset classes, 2) understanding investment vehicles like mutual funds and ETFs, and choosing the right ones, 3) asset allocation and portfolio diversification, 4) implementing, monitoring, and managing your investments properly, and 5) behaving like a great investor. In simple to understand terms, The Portfolio Architect explains everything you need to know about these 5 Keys to great investment management!Turn off the TV, throw away your money magazines, and tune out the financial pornography Wall Street feeds you everyday - with these 5 Keys you won't need it! And if you still need professional help there's a bonus 6th Key which will make sure you find the right professional help - not a commission-centered product hocker masquerading as a financial advisor!
Download or read book In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio written by Andrew W. Lo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world,Jack Bogle, Charley Ellis, Gene Fama, Marty Liebowitz, Harry Markowitz, Bob Merton, Myron Scholes, Bill Sharpe, Bob Shiller, and Jeremy Siegel. We learn about the personal and intellectual journeys of these luminaries, which include six Nobel Laureates and a trailblazer in mutual funds, and their most innovative contributions. In the process, we come to understand how the science of modern investing came to be. Each of these finance greats discusses their idea of a perfect portfolio, offering invaluable insights to today's investor
Download or read book Strategic Project Portfolio Management written by Simon Moore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead change through strategic alignment of project and process performance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization presents a clear framework for your organization to complete impactful strategic projects. Providing executive-level guidance to build a powerful and efficient process from initial adoption to portfolio alignment, this essential resource contains case studies from small to global multinational organizations, arming you with the insights to ensure your strategic projects are given the resources they need to deliver business impact. This important guide Shows executives how to align their projects and processes with their business strategy for compelling competitive advantage Provides cases from best in class organizations, showing how they were able to achieve results by using processes outlined in the book Reveals how technology is the key to developing new collaborative platforms and innovative work management environments that have not been possible until now Defines a framework for assessing project portfolio management competence within your organization and driving momentum for compelling improvements Explores how to go beyond project portfolio management to a holistic work management system Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization offers the practical recommendations, guidance, and real world insights you need to immediately begin driving better project management strategy.
Download or read book The Standard for Portfolio Management written by and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standard for Portfolio Management – Fourth Edition has been updated to best reflect the current state of portfolio management. It describe the principles that drive accepted good portfolio management practices in today's organizations. It also expands the description of portfolio management to reflect its relation to organizational project management and the organization.
Download or read book The Standard Poor s Guide to the Perfect Portfolio written by Michael Kaye and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people devote their time to choosing “the right” stocks. Yet they bypass an important step that will have an even greater impact on their portfolio’s performance: asset allocation. The Standard & Poor’s Guide to the Perfect Portfolio is the definitive road map to diversifying your financial holdings in order to get the highest returns with the lowest risk and ensure a secure financial future. You can beat 90% of money managers with a properly balanced portfolio of mixed investment classes. Investment expert and columnist Michael Kaye presents a clear and reliable approach to asset allocation. He helps investors at every level to better understand all the major investment products available and how to best use them to achieve investor’s specific goals. Kaye shows you five essential steps to allocate your assets: Identify your goals and objectives Choose the right asset classes for your portfolio Determine how much of your assets belong in each class Pick your investment products Monitor your portfolio and make adjustments as needed The Standard & Poor’s Guide to the Perfect Portfolio is packed with examples of portfolio mixes that illustrate many ways to balance your assets based on different risk profiles and investment goals. A range of relevant, reliable advice shows you how to successfully consider such factors as where you are in your career, what your financial needs are, and your personal tolerance to risk.
Download or read book Writing Your Nursing Portfolio a Step By step Guide written by Fiona Timmins and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am delighted to endorse this practical and accessible guide to writing and developing a portfolio for nurses. Unlike many 'how-to-do' approaches to portfolio compilation, this book acknowledges the complexity involved in learning from practice, and recording that learning in a meaningful way. The book respectfully guides the reader through essential elements to be considered if a portfolio is to be more than a depository of paper, yet avoids prescription in acknowledging the individual nature of the portfolio and its necessity to reflect the nurse's own journey through their career." Professor Melanie Jasper, Head of College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, UK "The compilation of a nursing portfolio is a task, which is often neglected in the busy student nurse's life between long shifts and assignments. Timmins & Duffy encourage one to take on the challenge and guide one through the process systematically ... Examples of structured reflections and of portfolio layouts make the realisation of one's own well presented portfolio easier than one might think. Any student or qualified nurse will thus benefit from Timmins & Duffy's encouraging book." Karin Schirmaier, Student, University of the West of England, UK "This book is intended for nurses at all stages of their careers and offers a much needed step-by-step guide to planning, writing and maintaining a portfolio. I was particularly pleased to see a strong emphasis on refl ection and education, as a means of encouraging nurses to think critically and learn from their own practice. All in all, this is a very well-constructed book which I highly recommend." Professor Gary Rolfe, Swansea University, UK This handy guide, co-published with the Nursing Standard, is perfect for nurses who need to put together a portfolio and don't know where to start. Written as a step-by-step guide it answers all the common questions about how to compile and write a good nursing portfolio. Each chapter includes different tasks so you can create your portfolio as you work through the book. The book assumes no prior knowledge of portfolio building and includes: Examples of good and challenging portfolio pieces Tools and techniques for reflection and critical thinking Guidance on the NMC competency frameworks Writing your Nursing Portfolio is indispensable reading for all nursing students looking for a clear and accessible guide to creating and developing a portfolio. The book describes how the nursing portfolio fits into clinical practice and how it can make a positive difference to the nurse, patient and others.
Download or read book The Ivy Portfolio written by Mebane T. Faber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A do-it-yourself guide to investing like the renowned Harvard and Yale endowments. The Ivy Portfolio shows step-by-step how to track and mimic the investment strategies of the highly successful Harvard and Yale endowments. Using the endowment Policy Portfolios as a guide, the authors illustrate how an investor can develop a strategic asset allocation using an ETF-based investment approach. The Ivy Portfolio also reveals a novel method for investors to reduce their risk through a tactical asset allocation strategy to protect them from bear markets. The book will also showcase a method to follow the smart money and piggyback the top hedge funds and their stock-picking abilities. With readable, straightforward advice, The Ivy Portfolio will show investors exactly how this can be accomplished—and allow them to achieve an unparalleled level of investment success in the process. With all of the uncertainty in the markets today, The Ivy Portfolio helps the reader answer the most often asked question in investing today - "What do I do"?
Download or read book Broken Pie Chart written by Derek Moore and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment outcomes and strategies have changed considerably since 2008. Broken Pie Chart demonstrates the failures of classical diversification and asset allocation, pointing out that the backward-looking methods used by traditional financial professionals will not work moving forward.
Download or read book The Large Cap Portfolio Web site written by Thomas Villalta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical guide to finding value and opportunity in large-cap stocks using investor behavior Large-Cap is an abbreviation of the term "large market capitalization" and refers to the stock of publicly traded companies with market capitalization values of roughly more than $10 billion, like Walmart, Microsoft, and Ford. Because of their size, the conventional view is that these companies do not present investors with an ability to be opportunistic. The Large-Cap Portfolio + Website argues that, contrary to popular perceptions, significant opportunities exist in these stocks. Written with a fluency that both the savvy amateur and professional investor will understand, the book fills a void in the market by offering the practitioner a methodology to identify and approach the major assumptions that underlie valuation, with an emphasis on issues that are more relevant to the analysis of large-cap stocks. Full of useful information on how to reap the rewards of stocks that most investors avoid Presents essential insights into understanding stock valuation Includes an actionable chapter devoted to portfolio management Packed with timely instruction, Large-Cap Portfolio gives readers invaluable insights and examples of how to build portfolios that will out-perform broad market benchmarks.
Download or read book Building Your Portfolio written by Kath Owen and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated to reflect the new requirements of CILIP’s revamped suite of Professional Registration qualifications, this is the essential ‘how to’ guide to producing a successful portfolio. Reflecting on achievements and presenting evidence of enhanced knowledge and skills underpin many professional and educational qualifications. Building a portfolio is key to recording and demonstrating this professional development, and gaining official recognition in the form of Professional Registration qualifications. Set out in a user-friendly format, and covering each element of a portfolio, the guide is jam-packed with examples, useful hints and tips, personal contributions from successful applicants, web links, and further reading to help you develop a top-notch portfolio. The role of the VLE, new submission routes including e-submission and the new route to Revalidation all clearly explained. Readership: Library and information practitioners working towards any of the three levels of CILIP Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship), candidates for Revalidation and those beginning their first job in the sector. Mentors, employers of library and information staff, students of library and information science, and others interested in effectively recording their continuing professional development.
Download or read book The Portfolio Organizer written by Noreen Carol Rolheiser-Bennett and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2000 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ultimate guide to portfolios makes the process of developing and using portfolios easier and more rewarding for you and your students. Clear steps guide you through critical decisions in 10 major categories. Hands-on activities, discussion questions, and planning tools help you anticipate and address every key issue. Practical samples and easy-to-use templates and forms ensure that the portfolio process is meaningful to students and manageable for you. - Publisher.
Download or read book Managing Investment Portfolios written by John L. Maginn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 1255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare blend of a well-organized, comprehensive guide to portfolio management and a deep, cutting-edge treatment of the key topics by distinguished authors who have all practiced what they preach. The subtitle, A Dynamic Process, points to the fresh, modern ideas that sparkle throughout this new edition. Just reading Peter Bernstein's thoughtful Foreword can move you forward in your thinking about this critical subject." —Martin L. Leibowitz, Morgan Stanley "Managing Investment Portfolios remains the definitive volume in explaining investment management as a process, providing organization and structure to a complex, multipart set of concepts and procedures. Anyone involved in the management of portfolios will benefit from a careful reading of this new edition." —Charles P. Jones, CFA, Edwin Gill Professor of Finance, College of Management, North Carolina State University
Download or read book The Bogleheads Guide to the Three Fund Portfolio written by Taylor Larimore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty benefits from the three-fund total market index portfolio. The Bogleheads’ Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio describes the most popular portfolio on the Bogleheads forum. This all-indexed portfolio contains over 15,000 worldwide securities, in just three easily-managed funds, that has outperformed the vast majority of both professional and amateur investors. If you are a new investor, or an experienced investor who wants to simplify and improve your portfolio, The Bogleheads’ Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio is a short, easy-to-read guide to show you how.
Download or read book The Bogleheads Guide to Investing written by Taylor Larimore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this easy-to-use, need-to-know, no-frills guide to building financial well-being is advice for long-term wealth creation and happiness, without all the worries and fuss of stock pickers and day traders.
