Alternative Decision-Making Models for Financial Portfolio Management - Emerging Research and Opportunities

Economics is an integral aspect to every successful society, yet basic financial practices have gone unchanged for decades. Analyzing unconventional finance methods can provide new ways to ensure personal financial futures on an individual level, as well as boosting international economies. Alternative Decision-Making Models for Financial Portfolio Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that discusses methods and techniques that make financial administration more efficient for professionals in economic fields. Featuring relevant topics such as mean-variance portfolio theory, decision tree analysis, risk protection strategies, and asset-liability management, this publication is ideal for academicians, students, economists, and researchers that would like to stay current on new and innovative methods to transform the financial realm.

List of contents

Preface: The Discovery
Introduction: Back in the USA
Part I: The Beginning
Chapter 1: So you want to be a Ranger
Chapter 2: Onward We Stagger
Chapter 3: HMS Royal Ulsterman
Chapter 4: Shipping Out
Part II: North Africa
Chapter 5: Operation Torch
Chapter 6: Adapt and Prepare
Chapter 7: Don't you know there's a war on Son?
Chapter 8: The Pigeon and the G.I.
Chapter 9: Tebessa
Chapter 10: Sened Station Raid
Chapter 10: Kasserine Pass
Chapter 11: El Guettar
Chapter 12: Wham, I'm hit!
Chapter 13: Casablanca Hospital
Part III: Sicily
Chapter 14: Operation Husky
Chapter 15: Vincere "Victory"
Chapter 16: Postwar Life
Epilogue: The Final Patrol and Legacy
Appendices

About the author

Described by Vanity Fair editor David Friend as the "Chronicler of Cool," American photographer Philip Stern is noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger in the much heralded fighting unit "Darby's Rangers," in the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II. In 2014 Stern was inaugurated into the prestigious US Army Ranger Hall of Fame for his "service as an original member of the 1st Ranger Battalion and for his lasting contribution to the photographic history of the Rangers.

An award-winning journalist with more than 15 years' experience, Liesl Bradner's work has appeared in respected national publications such as The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, Truthdig, Variety and WWII Magazine. In addition to Phil Stern, with whom she forged a strong bond, Bradner has interviewed nearly 100 artists, actors, screenwriters, authors, politicians and photographers. In May 2016, she was part of a team of writers at Truthdig winning the 2015 Maggie Award for best regularly featured web column (Book Review). Book projects include Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, (Taschen, 2015) and the upcoming Matt Weiner's Mad Men (Taschen, 2016). She lives in the UK.

Summary

Prior to Stern's death on December 13, 2014, his original, unfinished, tattered manuscript was discovered, stashed away in an old folio box in his cluttered Hollywood bungalow. Although best remembered for his iconic images of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and JFK's inauguration, his remarkable service during World War II as a combat photographer has remained unknown. Until now.

Stern's catchy 1940s lingo, honest and intimate observations, and humour, transport the reader 70 years back in time to experience the key battles of the Mediterranean Theatre. With his lens and pen, Stern introduces readers to the hardscrabble Rangers, the desert oases of Morocco and Algeria, the muddied beaches of Mussolini's Italy. Snapdragon is an artefact of that time, told not by a man reminiscing in his twilight years, but by a young soldier fresh from the battlefields.

Foreword

The combat photography and wartime experiences of Phil 'Snapdragon' Stern, an iconic photographer of JFK, Marilyn Monroe and James Deen, published for the first time and beautifully presented.

Product details

• Authors: Narela Spaseski
• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781522532590
• ISBN: 978-1-5225-3259-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 857 g
• Series: Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous