"A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance"-- "Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes...

"Mainstay reference guide for wealth management, newly updated for today's investment landscape. For over a decade, The New Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor's Guide to Managing and Investing Client Assets has provided financial planners with detailed, step-by-step guidance on developing an optimal asset allocation policy for their clients. And, it did so without resorting to simplistic model portfolios, such as lifecycle models or black box...

"Dreaming and reality are different. When we dream about coming into a Sudden Large Lump Sum of money, it's all about things we would buy or having the freedom to retire. But in the real world, what it more frequently brings is stress, worry and concerns. This book deals with how to manage the situation by working with a qualified financial planner. It's designed to help people set up the financial side of their life to be relatively stress free and...

"Gives individual investors the information and tools they need to take control of their hard-earned money and manage their own wealth-- no matter how much or how little they have ... [The authors] show what it takes to stop relying on so-called experts and become a savvy investor"--Jacket.

Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?