Born in 1938 in Poland, I epxperienced wartime Berlin and post-war Stalinism. My first job, at sixteen, was with the East Berlin States Opera and the Bertold Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. The play writes Betrtold Brecht and Buechner had the strongest influence on me. Brecht's play 'Mutter Courage and her children' and Georg Buechner's 'Woyzech' encapsulated the harsh realities of post-war Europe, and confirmed my desire for social justice and reform. Yet, the main influence on my work comes from my own life experience. My life in Australia has become a kind of exile-a deprivation of the origin of my culture and my cradle. After nearly forty years in Australia I feel a little displaced. Yet I left Europe voluntarily to escape from the very culture and history I now miss. I am experiencing a common dilemma of migration. I belong neither here nor there-a kind of dislocation. There exists a twilight zone in the in-between time-a discontinuity of my Berliner development. Artists such as Kaethe Kollwitz, John Heartfield, George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckman influenced my teenage years. Later, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. I work with found objects, such as toys crafted by human hand. I am giving them a new meaning, a new being. They are meditations on the conflict of war, where women and children are the primary victims of political fragmentation. My sculptures evoke memories of a childhood stolen. They take on a menacing character reminding the viewer of the effects war has on humanity. But Art is the reflector and searcher; it is our way to enlightenment. Joseph Beuys introduced the concept of an expanded notion of art ("der erweiterte Kunstbegriff") to surpass the boundaries of modernism with in art, science, spirituality, humanism and economics. He drew attention to the potential of human creativity. Art, against all odds, is poetry to life.
Acknowledgments -- Portfolio theory and management : an overview / H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck -- Portfolio theory and asset pricing -- Modern portfolio theory / Eric Jacquier -- Asset pricing theories, models, and tests / Nikolay Gospodinov and Cesare Robotti -- Asset pricing and behavioral finance / Hersh Shefrin -- The investment policy statement and fiduciary duties -- Assessing risk tolerance / Sherman D. Hanna, Michael A. Guillemette, and Michael S. Finke -- Private wealth management / Dianna Preece -- Institutional wealth management / Eric J. Robbins -- Fiduciary duties and responsibilities of portfolio managers / Remus D. Valsan and Moin A. Yahya -- Asset allocation and portfolio construction -- The role of asset allocation in the investment decision-making process/ james l. farrell, jr -- Asset allocation models / J. Clay Singleton -- Preference models in portfolio construction and evaluation / Massimo Guidolin -- Portfolio construction with downside risk / Harald Lohre, Thorsten Neumann, and Thomas Winterfeldt -- Asset allocation with downside risk management / Joshua M. Davis and Sebastien Page -- Alternative investments / Lars Helge Hass, Denis Schweizer, Juliane Proelss -- Risk management -- Measuring and managing market risk / Christoph Kaserer -- Measuring and managing credit and other risks / Gabriele Sabato -- Portfolio execution, monitoring, and rebalancing -- Trading strategies, portfolio monitoring, and rebalancing / Ricardo Cesari and Massimiliano Marzo -- Effective trade execution / Ricardo Cesari, Massimiliano Marzo, and Paolo Zagalia -- Market timing methods and results / Panagiotis Schizas -- Evaluating and reporting portfolio performance -- Evaluating portfolio performance : reconciling asset selection and market timing / Arnaud Cavé, Georges Hübner, and Thomas Lejeune -- Benchmarking / Abraham Lioui and Patrice Poncet -- Attribution analysis / Nanne Brunia and Auke Plantinga -- Equity investment styles / Andrew Mason -- Use of derivatives / Matthieu Leblanc -- Performance presentation / Timothy P. Ryan -- Special topics -- Exchange traded funds: the success story of the last two decades / Gerasimos G. Rompotis -- The past, present, and future of hedge funds / Roland Füss and Sarah Müller -- Portfolio and risk management for private equity fund investments / Niklas Wagner and Axel Buchner -- Venture capital / Paschal Gantenbein, Reto Forrer, and Nils Herold -- Socially responsible investing / Hunter Holzhauer
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