FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKET RESEARCH, INVESTMENTS, ASSET MANAGEMENT, FINANCIAL PLANNING, STOCKS, BONDS, MUTUAL FUNDS BUSINESS, PENSIONS, BENEFITS, MARKETS, INVESTMENT BANKING INDUSTRY, ONLINE BROKERAGE, DISCOUNT BROKERS ANALYSIS TRENDS & STATISTICS

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Plunkett's Investment & Securities Industry Almanac

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The investment and securities industry is rebounding from the dismal markets of the early 2000s. Improved corporate profits, low interest rates and efforts to improve corporate governance have led the way, despite recent scandals in the mutual funds industry. Meanwhile, the investment industry is increasingly a global business. This is partly due to the needs of multinational corporations to list their stocks or issue debt in more than one nation. For example, ADRs (American Depository Receipts) are increasingly popular instruments. Cross-border investments and acquisitions continue at a rapid pace. Discount brokerages are enjoying improved levels of trading, while investment banks are developing new ways to create lucrative fees.

Online brokerage and online account management of financial services of all types is booming. Consumers and investors worldwide are going online for their daily needs now that broadband access is proliferating. Meanwhile, the world's major exchanges, from the FTSE to the NYSE, are evolving and fighting to keep up with an investment world that is turning more and more to electronic trading. Private equity funds are raising and investing immense amounts of money, venture capital is rebounding and hedge funds have become commonplace. Corporate merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is running at a high rate in the U.S. and abroad.

Asset management firms, mutual funds, financial planners and funds that offer personal investments such as annuities are refining their products and services to better fulfill the needs of rapidly aging populations in Japan and Europe as well as America's millions of Baby Boomers who are beginning to retire.

This carefully-researched book (which includes a database of leading companies on CD-ROM) is a complete investments, securities and asset management market research and business intelligence tool-- everything you need to know about the business of investments, including:

1. Investment banking
2. Private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M A)
3. Stock brokers
4. Discount brokers
5. Online brokers and online account management
6. Significant trends in financial information technologies
7. Asset management and financial services
8. Stock ownership by individuals and households
9. 401(k)s, pension plans other employee benefits
10. Mutual funds
11. ETFs (Exchange traded funds).
12. ECNs (Electronic Communication Networks)
13. Developments at the NYSE and other exchanges

You’ll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market research report in one superb, value-priced package. It contains thousands of contacts for business and industry leaders, industry associations, Internet sites and other resources. This book also includes statistical tables, an industry glossary and thorough indexes. The corporate profiles section of the book includes our proprietary, in-depth profiles of the 300 leading companies in all facets of the investment and securities business. Here you'll find complete profiles of the hot companies that are making news today, the largest, most successful corporations in the business. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.

"In effect, the editors reach beyond traditional institutions to capture the broad panorama of firms that use recent technological, legal, economic and cultural changes in the way U.S. companies and individuals manage their money. In this way, the book distinguishes itself from most others in the field which are restricted to a particular area such as banking…It will appeal to a broad spectrum of…users." (A review of the original volume.)

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