Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Who Should Read this Book? -- PART A Mathematical Foundation for One‐Factor Problems -- CHAPTER 1 Real Analysis Foundations for this Book -- 1.1 Introduction and Objectives -- 1.2 Continuous Functions -- 1.2.1 Formal Definition of...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Acronyms -- CHAPTER 1 Finance -- 1.1 Follow the Money -- 1.2 Financial Markets and Participants -- 1.3 Quantitative Finance -- CHAPTER 2 Rates, Yields, Bond Math -- 2.1 Interest Rates -- 2.1.1...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Middle Market Overview -- Chapter 1 The Middle Market -- Performance and Impact -- Definition -- Characteristics of Middle Market Companies -- Ownership -- Access to and Use of Capital -- Organization --...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: For Whom Is This Handbook, and Why? -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: The Building Blocks of Investment Writing -- What's Investment Writing All About? -- Applying Journalistic Principles to Investment...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 AI in Investment Management -- What about AI Suppliers? -- Listening without Judging -- Lessons from ALI -- The Four Stages of AI in Investments -- Stage 1: The Siloed Quant Era -- Era 2: The Strategic Quant...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Data Sources -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Chapter 1 Sources of Capital: Nature, Constraints, and Objectives -- 1.1 Behavioral Biases and Their Consequences -- 1.1.1 Behavioral Biases in the...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Commodities and Derivatives -- 1.1 Market overview -- 1.2 Market participants -- 1.2.1 Physical market participants -- 1.2.2 Price reporting agencies (PRAs) -- 1.2.3 Investment banks -- 1.2.4 Commodity trading...