Interior Design Law and Business Practices or Investors Markets

Interior Design Law and Business Practices

Author: C Jaye Berger

You don’t have to learn your lessons the hard way anymore…

Most designers have to learn their lessons through time and experience when it comes to the business and legal aspects of starting and running an interior design firm. Now, Interior Design Law and Business Practices makes the hard lessons easy. It is the first book to offer comprehensive coverage of all crucial business and legal aspects of starting and running an interior design firm. Written by an attorney with an all-star team of experts including accountants, marketing specialists, and successful design professionals, it teaches you important lessons about:

• Setting up an interior design practice
• Maintaining records and correspondence
• Negotiating contracts with clients and contractors
• Obtaining professional liability insurance
• Marketing design services
• Accounting for design firms
• Handling and setting legal disputes
• Licensing products and furniture designs
• And much more

Interesting book: Wheel Estate or Decade of Betrayal

Investors & Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, & Investment Advice

Author: William Sharp

In Investors and Markets, Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. But until now asset-price analysis has largely been inaccessible to everyone except PhDs in financial economics. In this book, Sharpe changes that by setting out his state-of-the-art approach to asset pricing in a nonmathematical form that will be comprehensible to a broad range of investment professionals, including investment advisors, money managers, and financial analysts. Bridging the gap between the best financial theory and investment practice, Investors and Markets will help investment professionals make better portfolio choices by being smarter about asset prices.

Based on Sharpe's Princeton Lectures in Finance, Investors and Markets presents a method of analyzing asset prices that accounts for the real behavior of investors. Sharpe makes this technique accessible through a new, one-of-a-kind computer program (available for free on his Web site, at stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/apsim/index.html) that enables users to create virtual markets, setting the starting conditions and then allowing trading until equilibrium is reached and trading stops. Program users can then analyze the final portfolios and asset prices, see expected returns, and measure risk.

In addition to popularizing the most sophisticated form of asset-price analysis, Investors and Markets summarizes much of Sharpe's most important previous work and reflects a lifetime of thinking about investing by one of the leading minds in financial economics. Any serious investmentprofessional will benefit from Sharpe's unique insights.

Table of Contents:

PREFACE vii
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1
CHAPTER TWO: Equilibrium 9
CHAPTER THREE: Preferences 35
CHAPTER FOUR: Prices 63
CHAPTER FIVE: Positions 111
CHAPTER SIX: Predictions 129
CHAPTER SEVEN: Protection 149
CHAPTER EIGHT: Advice 185
REFERENCES 213
INDEX 215