Local bank market share: personal service, part of community.(Focus: Banking & Finance): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal

Local bank market share: personal service, part of community.(Focus: Banking & Finance): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal Review

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Title: Local bank market share: personal service, part of community.(Focus: Banking & Finance)
Author: Lynn Lofton
Publication:Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 16, 2005
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 27 Issue: 20 Page: 21(2)

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Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players

Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players Review

Advance Praise for Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance

"With the region's increasing prominence in global capital markets, this timely piece is essential for anyone trying to gather a nuanced understanding of the landscape of Gulf capital and the fast-growing Islamic finance industry and the increased 'Shariah-affinity' of its stakeholders. Brilliantly written and easy to read, Aamir Rehman has leveraged a luminous career as a corporate strategist for the Middle East to put together the comprehensive guide to Gulf capital and Islamic finance." -- S. Nazim Ali, Director, Islamic Finance Project, Harvard Law School

"Aamir Rehman has written a lucid and well-researched guide to tapping capital in the Gulf. He is right that appreciating the underpinnings of Shariah-compliant finance is key to understanding the mindset of Muslim investors." -- Samuel L. Hayes III, Jacob Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

"A timely and useful book on the growing relevance to the global economy of Gulf capital and Islamic finance. Aamir Rehman's deep knowledge, passion, and engagement with the topic have come together in a book that provides insight and practical advice on how to tap into a rapidly growing source of capital. This book will help institutions navigate their way successfully through the growing Islamic finance industry." -- Iqbal Khan, CEO, Fajr Capital, and former founding CEO, HSBC Amanah

"If you want to understand the meaning and implications of Islamic finance, Aamir Rehman's Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance is the one volume you need on your desk. Written primarily for financial investment professionals with a need to know more about the impact on global markets of GCC investments and Islamic finance, Rehman's newest book makes this formerly ecoteric topic accessible to anyone with an interest in the increasingly important energy-rich Gulf countries." -- Michael W. S. Ryan, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Middle East Institute, and former VP for Administration and Finance, Millennium Challenge Corporation

The six countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)--Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman--have emerged as a vital source of stable capital and investments that will help power global economics in the coming decades.

In Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance, Aamir A. Rehman, the acclaimed author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States, sheds welcome light on the hows and whys of trillions of dollars of Gulf capital, and Shariah-compliant finance--a fast-growing sector that Standard & Poor's values at 0 billion. In addition to incisive analysis of these dynamic, often unfamiliar markets, Rehman examines this sector's growth potential and investment opportunities.

Clearly written, brilliantly reasoned, and refreshingly free from geopolitical biases, this book is an excellent resource for professionals seeking to understand Gulf investments, Islamic finance, and their impact on global markets. Inside, you'll find in-depth knowledge on a host of vital topics, including:

• Background and context on the rise of Gulf capital and Islamic finance: their origins, evolution to date, and current landscape
• Descriptions of key GCC institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, specialist investment vehicles, and private investors
• Global implications of the rise of these new players--what it means for investors, bankers, regulators, and international markets
• The role of Gulf capital and Islamic finance in an emerging, multipolar world--and whether they should be seen as opportunities or threats

Involvement with Gulf-based investors in international markets is already bearing financial and strategic fruit for savvy global firms, as well as influencing reform in the GCC region. The flow of capital in and out of Shariah-compliant sectors presents tremendous opportunities for those who understand--and are prepared to meet--the aspirations and needs of these investors. Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance provides these firms and professionals with in-depth knowledge that builds a solid platform for dealing with businesses in a region that is assuming a broader role in the global economy.

The World's Easiest Pocket Guide to Personal Budgeting

The World's Easiest Pocket Guide to Personal Budgeting Review

'The World's Easiest Pocket Guide' brand is filling a vacuum in the bookselling marketplace with an introductory level series on subjects affecting important lifestyle issues. Each product features a highly recognizable author writing on topics of his or her expertise. Shortly after leaving home or college, most young adults are unprepared for making practical life decisions and planning for their futures. Leading financial expert Larry Burkett has created this practical pocket guide to help young adults make sound financial decisions from the start. Filled with bite-sized chunks of trustworthy advice, readers will be better equipped to choose the right first job or career.

Fun with Finance: Math + Literacy = Success

Fun with Finance: Math + Literacy = Success Review

What's the best way to add lessons on money management and building wealth to grade school math? By making it real—and making it fun! Fun With Finance: Math + Literacy = Success helps teachers bring the world of finance into the elementary school classroom in a way that engages and captivates students.

Fun With Finance focuses on a range of topics, from currency and the global economy, to business entities, savings, credit, real estate investments, the markets, budgeting, and goal planning. Each chapter offers grade-appropriate lessons, with a readers theatre script, glossary, cross-curricular activities, a list of Web sites—even a board game!—to make learning a genuinely successful enterprise. Lessons and activities are fully cross-referenced to curriculum standards to make sure they meet school requirements.

Mapping Your Retirement: A Personal Guide to Maintaining Your Health, Managing Your Money, and Living Well

Mapping Your Retirement: A Personal Guide to Maintaining Your Health, Managing Your Money, and Living Well Review

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Grounded in reality and focused on the possibilities, Mapping Your Retirement is your personal guide to a happy, healthy, and productive life. The editors have compiled research-based information and inspiring wisdom from the field s leading experts and visionaries into an easy-to-use workbook. From finances to health, to relationships and spirituality, explore the territory ahead with confidence. Create your own map to an engaged and fulfilling retirement.

One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership

One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership Review

A robust, authentic model for creating and clearly articulating a personal leadership philosophy

Based on leadership expert Mike Figliuolo's popular "Leadership Maxims" training course, One Piece of Paper teaches decisive, effective leadership by taking a holistic approach to defining one's personal leadership philosophy. Through a series of simple questions, readers will create a living document that communicates their values, passions, goals and standards to others, maximizing their leadership potential.

• Outlines a clear approach for identifying a concise and meaningful set of personal leadership maxims by which leaders can live their lives
• Explains and applies four basic aspects of leadership: leading yourself, leading the thinking, leading your people, and leading a balanced life
• Generates a foundational document that serves as a touchstone for leaders and their teams

Simple, applicable, and without pretense, One Piece of Paper provides a model for real leadership in the real world.

The Cornerstone of Personal Finance: Your One-Weekend Guide to Financial Freedom

The Cornerstone of Personal Finance: Your One-Weekend Guide to Financial Freedom Review

Have you ever wished that you knew more about personal finance such as taxes, insurance, and investments? Have you ever felt like your finances were out of control but didn't know what to do to get a grip? Have you ever thought there was something that you should be doing to prepare for your family's financial future but just didn't know what? Do you want to learn more about personal finance, but find that when you try to read books and magazines, or take classes, you are unable to keep up? If any of these scenarios fits your situation, this is the book for you.

The Cornerstone of Personal Finance is designed to allow you to learn what you need to know at your own pace. It is designed to be a comprehensive review of personal financial issues as well as a focused learning opportunity that targets the areas of personal finance that are most important for individuals in five different stages of life. Whether you have one week or one weekend to dedicate to expanding your knowledge about personal finance, this book will ensure that your time is well spent.

Business Plans Kit For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Business Plans Kit For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) Review

When you’re establishing, expanding, or re-energizing a business, the best place to start is writing your business plan. Not only does writing out your idea force you to think more clearly about what you want to do, it will also give the people you work with a defined road map as well.

Business Plan Kit For Dummies, Second Edition is the perfect guide to lead you through the ins and outs of constructing a great business plan. This one-stop resource offers a painless, fun-and-easy way to create a winning plan that will help you lead your business to success. This updated guide has all the tools you’ll need to:

• Generate a great business idea
• Understand what your business will be up against
• Map out your strategic direction
• Craft a stellar marketing plan
• Tailor your plan to fit your business’s needs
• Put your plan and hard work into action
• Start an one-person business, small business, or nonprofit
• Create a plan for an already established business
• Cash in on the Internet with planning an e-business

Featured in this hands-on guide is valuable advice for evaluating a new business idea, funding your business plan, and ways to determine if your plan may need to be reworked. You also get a bonus CD that includes income and overhead worksheets, operation surveys, customer profiles, business plan components, and more. Don’t delay your business’s prosperity. Business Plan Kit For Dummies, Second Edition will allow you to create a blueprint for success!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement Review

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A companion to the inspirational business book "Think and Grow Rich" offers an expansion of the principles outlined in the original volume, including mental exercises and self-analysis techniques.

Personal Finance: Strategic Default; Is It Just a Business Decision?

Personal Finance: Strategic Default; Is It Just a Business Decision? Review

On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli expressed his famous rant. This rant essentially expressed the feelings of those who pay their bills, pay their house notes, and stay out of debt. This book discusses Strategic Default, walking away from a mortgage note, in the light of this Tea Party understanding.

With the formation of the Tea Party, admittedly because of the Santelli rant, a movement to return America to her roots of personal responsibility was born. Santelli had said that those who made a bet on the housing ponzi and lost should not be bailed out. Many took his rant to mean that the losers should man up and pay off their mortgages. This book does not make a case for whether the mortgage "deadbeats" should be bailed out.

But there are other issues regarding the actions of those who can afford to pay their mortgages yet walk away from homes that are worth far less than the value of the mortgage. This book looks at what many call a business decision in the light of what is moral, even what is patriotic. But unlike Santelli, this book looks at the role of the Federal Reserve Bank and the role of the financial elite in the formulation of the ponzi housing bubble.

It is impossible to make a moral or patriotic decision regarding walking away from a house you can afford without understanding the nature of the housing bubble and the nature of securitization as a means for handling mortgages in our country, both in the past and in the future. Understanding the nature of the Fed and of securitization will go a long way toward determining morality and patriotism post bubble.

Personal Finance for the New Physician -- Money Management for Residency and Beyond

Personal Finance for the New Physician -- Money Management for Residency and Beyond Review

Medical students and residents have a late start at generating wealth. This book was written in order to educate students and residents about personal finance. Topics addressed include IRAs, 401(k), real estate, insurance, automobiles, credit scores, and

Kiplinger's Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Acheive a Lifetime of Financial Security (Kiplinger's Personal Finance)

Kiplinger's Money Smart Women: Everything You Need to Know to Acheive a Lifetime of Financial Security (Kiplinger's Personal Finance) Review

From their first job to their retirement years, women face unique challenges when it comes to managing their money.  Because women play so many different roles -- and sometimes leave the workforce to raise children and care for family members – they need specific financial advice tailored to each stage of life. In her new book, Kiplinger’s Money Smart Women – Everything You Need to Know to Achieve a Lifetime of Financial Security, Janet Bodnar, wife, mother and deputy editor of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, outlines what every woman needs to know to be financially independent, from breaking out of the paycheck-to-paycheck rut to living comfortably in retirement.
 
Whether you are single, married, divorced, widowed or retired, Kiplinger’s Money Smart Women will give you the advice you need on important topics such as:
Establishing a stellar credit record;
Strategies for spending less and saving more;
Investing with confidence;
Surviving divorce with your finances intact;
Financial implications of caring for elderly family members;
Making your assets last during retirement 

Kiplinger’s Money Smart Women covers it all with real-world advice and practical strategies, and includes “how-to” action steps for everything from investing in mutual funds to boosting retirement income. This is every woman’s essential guide to financial security.

The Penguin Personal Finance Guide

The Penguin Personal Finance Guide Review

A guide to managing money, which sets out to answer the most common questions on this subject. It covers savings and investments, tax and family money, taking account of the ever-changing legislation in the financial world.

Financial Landscapes: Finance and Accounting Made Simpler

Financial Landscapes: Finance and Accounting Made Simpler Review

Financial Landscapes, Accounting and Finance Made Simpler is a short, practical book with concise descriptions and definitions of basic (and a few not so basic) finance and accounting concepts. Most of us do not have the time, inclination or expertise needed to adequately monitor our finances. And when we look for help quite often we are overwhelmed with terminology we don't understand. This book provides enough information so the reader will not be overwhelmed by the terminology and descriptions used by today's financial press. The book is broken into two parts: the concepts needed for the long term and the basics, descriptions of specific financial products or elements. Written with as much humor as appropriate, and without the minutia, the focus is on providing the information which an individual might need to comfortably talk to an accountant, broker or other financial advisor. Bob Burson has worked in the accounting field for over thirty years. He has a master's degree in finance and is a partner in a CPA firm. His job is to provide understandable explanations of complex topics so his clients can make intelligent and useful decisions. He has included those explanations here so we can all benefit from his expertise and make those same decisions.

The Little Finance Book That Could: A Practical Guide to Becoming Debt Free While Living a Financially Responsible Life

The Little Finance Book That Could: A Practical Guide to Becoming Debt Free While Living a Financially Responsible Life Review

If you're in debt or struggling to make your paycheck stretch to pay the bills then it's time to do something about it. By changing your financial habits you can quickly get your finances back on track and begin to enjoy life again. Jennifer Brozek inspires and guides you by drawing on lessons learned from her own financial battle. Inside this book you will discover 10 rules for quickly climbing your financial mountain and becoming debt-free. Once you've achieved your first goal you will learn the 5 principles of financial responsibility to ensure you never get dragged into debt again. At 25 Jennifer Brozek was ,000 in debt and making just ,000 a year. Five years later she is debt free and living a comfortable lifestyle with a healthy savings account. As someone who has experienced financial difficulties and turned things around by applying some good old-fashioned parental training, Jennifer is living proof that you can do it too. She went from a life of debt and worry to a life of financial responsibility and freedom - in this book she shows you how she did it and you can too.

Faithful Finances 101: From the Poverty of Fear and Greed to the Riches of Spiritual Investing

Faithful Finances 101: From the Poverty of Fear and Greed to the Riches of Spiritual Investing Review

Now in paperback, this challenging and provocative book strips the veneer from the financial advice of some popular evangelical media celebrities and advocates a reintegrating of faith and finances.

Faithful Finances 101 is a first-person narrative by outspoken advocate of faith-based investing. A senior vice president of investments at Paine Webber before founding his own investment firm as "counsel to ethical and spiritual investors," Gary Moore warns that much of the economic advice emanating from some popular and influential evangelical authors and speakers is based on scare tactics and distortions of what the Bible has to say about finances. He draws on fifty years of studying the Bible, politics, and economics, and presents insights for those who want to be faithful in their finances—to use 100 percent of the time, talent, and treasure with which they have been entrusted for the glory of God as well as for the benefit of others and themselves, and not just give 10 percent of their incomes to the church.

"Many financial gurus are ignorant of spiritual matters. Many spiritual leaders are ignorant of financial matters. In a rare blend, Gary Moore brings together proven financial expertise with mature spiritual insights. This book is a must read for those who care about managing their finances faithfully." —David W. Miller, PhD, Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale Divinity School

"The book is hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and intellectually challenging, offering a Christian view of macroeconomics rather than a mere how-to guide for personal finance." —Publishers Weekly

Personal Finance in Your 20s For Dummies

Personal Finance in Your 20s For Dummies Review

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The easy way to avoid early pitfalls on the road to financial success

A little money and a little time is all that's needed to lay a strong financial foundation for today and the future. And starting sooner rather than later is the smartest thing you can do when it comes to protecting your financial future.

If you're in college or enjoying your twenties, Personal Finance in Your 20s For Dummies cuts to the chase, providing you with the targeted financial advice you need to establish a firm financial footing as you work your way through school and the post-graduation years.

• Advice on paying off student loans, managing debt, and creating a solid pathway to financial success
• Investing strategies for young investors
• Other titles by Tyson: Personal Finance For Dummies, Investing For Dummies, and Mutual Funds For Dummies

If you're looking for sound, reliable advice on how to make smart financial choices in the real world, Personal Finance in Your 20s For Dummies has you covered.