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eBooks

With Institutional Investor’s eBooks, you'll be able to access comprehensive coverage of specific financial sectors, such as capital markets, emerging markets and trading platforms. Each eBook offers multimedia features, an updated RSS Reader, relevant video segments, and the latest research and rankings releases.

FEATURED EBOOKS

Capital eBooks

  • Capital: eBook 1

    Commercial-Mortgage-Backed Securities Poised For Comeback; NYU Economists Find Way to Spot Systemic Risks; Asset-Based Lending Shifts to Owning; Weil Gotshal's Michael Aiello Advises on Soured Mergers; Institutional Investor Research and Rankings

  • Capital: eBook 2

    Man, GLG Merger Underscores Importance of Scale in Alternativse; Big Pension Fund TIAA-CREF Goes Green; Touting the Benefits of Electronic Medical Recordkeeping

  • Capital: eBook 3

    Investors Gravitate Toward Boutique Money managers; AgBank Liftoff

  • Capital: eBook 4

    Midsize Companies Rely on Pensions and Insurers for Funds; Looming Water Shortages Create Wave of 'Blue' Investing

  • Capital: eBook 5

    London Shipping Hedge Fund's Strategies Pay Off; There's No Shortage of Pitfalls Facing Plan Sponsors

  • Capital: eBook 6

    Basel III Critique Emerging; The Future of Small Hedge Funds

  • Capital: eBook 7

    While Economists Debate Inflation, Investors Seek Quality and Yield; Private Equity Firms Turn to Dividend Recaps to Bolster Liquidity

Cloud Computing For Asset Managers eBook

  • Cloud Computing For Asset Managers: eBook 1

    Speed of deployment, efficient use of resources, flexibility and scalability are among the key reasons hedge funds and alternative investment firms are turning to cloud-based technology solutions to support their day-to-day operations and financial applications. Not only do these solutions, which support varied funds and trading strategies, allow asset managers to focus on their core business, they also give firms a competitive edge by reducing costs and providing a highly resilient and secure platform for their operations. Management firms further benefit from this technology’s ability to deliver best practices in terms of security, business continuity, and disaster recovery.

    We invite you to download this ebook examining how cloud-based technology solutions can help your firm succeed by controlling operational costs while providing superior security and resiliency to your business.

Frontier Markets eBooks

Global Yield and Income Strategies for Institutions eBook

  • Global Yield and Income Strategies for Institutions: eBook 1

    It’s not easy for institutional investors to find high yield and income in today’s low-rate financial environment. But there are strategies for increasing risk-adjusted returns for investors willing to look beyond the traditional asset classes on a global basis. Non-investment grade debt, emerging market debt and equities, real estate and infrastructure are among the asset classes with the potential to increase a portfolio’s performance, according to professionals from J. P. Morgan Asset Management.

Invest in Kazakhstan with DBK eBook

  • Invest in Kazakhstan with DBK: eBook 1

    Energy and mining have brought wealth to Kazakhstan in the past two decades; now the country is moving toward diversified development of manufacturing and other key economic sectors.

Macro Economic Drivers of Market Performance eBooks

  • Macro Economic Drivers of Market Performance: eBook 1

    Is the US Heading for Inflation, Recession? or Both?

    No matter what the macro economic data show, markets seem to be interpreting recent headlines—the US banking crisis, partisan wrangling over raising the debt ceiling, US debt downgrade by Standard & Poor's—as inevitably leading to a recession.

  • Macro Economic Drivers of Market Performance: eBook 2

    In the second installment of our eBook series, we examine 3 key issues underpinning good investment practices, including the respective benefits and limitations of independent and sell-side research, the ongoing pursuit of reasonable, risk-adjusted returns globally, and an analysis of the US industry sectors which offer the best investment potential for 2012.

Rethinking Diversification in the Defined Contribution Plan eBook

  • Rethinking Diversification in the Defined Contribution Plan: eBook 1

    Rethinking Diversification in the Defined Contribution Plan is our newest sponsored e-book. These educational insights are based upon interviews with Northern Trust experts, who explore best practices for plan sponsors and discuss strategies for plan diversification, reducing volatility and hedging inflation.

    Table of Contents
    What Sponsors Should Do about Plan Diversification
    Inflation-Protected Bonds
    The Role of Commodities
    Global Real Estate
    Summary & Recommendations

Trading Platforms eBooks

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 1

    Flash Crash Reveled a market Vulnerable to Cyberterrorists; Combining Audit and Trading Platforms Yield Benefits; Trading Uncertainty Remains in wake of Flash Crash

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 2

    Single-Dealer Platforms Make a Comeback...Again; Price Banding: Trading Damage Control; Prop Trading Goes Underground

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 3

    Exchange Merger Mania; Financial Reform Mandate Expands OTC Derivatives Clearing Market; Hedge Funds Are Taking a New Approach to Risk Assesment

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 4

    Mobile Phones Being Used for Trading in Emerging Markets; ISE's Longitude Back on Track; Fixed Income Market Moves Closer to an Exchange

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 5

    Risk Management Systems Are Red Hot; Latency? We've Got It Covered; Derivatives Growth and Regulations Spark Clearing Boom

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 6

    Economics Determine Pace Toward Electronic Trading; SRL Global's Portfolio Tracker Follows Multiple Managers; Asian Explosion

  • Trading Platforms: eBook 7

    Tackling Pre-Trade Risk at the Trading Platform; Orc Software Brings Trading Tools to Brazil Exchange; Keeping Trade Data at Pace in the HFT World

The Other Russian Economy eBooks

Will unemployment fall below the Fed’s target of 6.5 percent next year?

  • Yes
  • No