Financial Institutions Management and Ale Beer and Brewsters in England

Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach

Author: Anthony Saunders

Saunders and Cornett’s Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach, 6th edition focuses on managing return and risk in modern financial institutions. The central theme is that the risks faced by financial institutions managers and the methods and markets through which these risks are managed are becoming increasingly similar whether an institution is chartered as a commercial bank, a savings bank, an investment bank, or an insurance company. Although the traditional nature of each sector’s product activity is analyzed, a greater emphasis is placed on new areas of activities such as asset securitization, off-balance-sheet banking, and international banking.

Table of Contents:

Saunders/Cornett, 6e


Brief Contents

PART ONE: Introduction

1 Why Are Financial Intermediaries Special?

2 The Financial Services Industry: Depository Institutions

3 The Financial Services Industry: Insurance Companies

4 The Financial Services Industry: Securities Firms and Investment Banks

5 The Financial Services Industry: Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds

6 The Financial Services Industry: Finance Companies

7 Risks of Financial Intermediation

PART TWO: Measuring Risk

8 Interest Rate Risk I

9 Interest Rate Risk II

10 Market Risk

11 Credit Risk: Individual Loan Risk

12 Credit Risk: Loan Portfolio and Concentration Risk

13 Off-Balance-Sheet Risk

14 Foreign Exchange Risk

15 Sovereign Risk

16 Technology and Other Operational Risks

17 Liquidity Risk

PART T HREE: Managing Risk

18 Liability and Liquidity Management

19 Deposit Insurance and Other Liability Guarantees

20 Capital Adequacy

21 Product Diversification

22 Geographic Expansion

23 Futures and Forwards

24 Options, Caps, Floors, and Collars

25 Swaps

26 Loan Sales

27 Securitization

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Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

Author: Judith M Bennett

Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy during this time of dramatic change.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

[This] us a brilliant and provocative book....Bennett has written a book the conceptual perception of which extends to all historians interested in gender and in power.

Speculum - Ben R. McRee

Bennett's study is bold in its sweep, thoughtful in its analysis, and provocative in its argument. Its conclusions offer an important challenge to prevailing views of women's work, one that will reshape discussion of the subject for years to come. The questions that it leaves open and to which scholars will now have to address themselves concern the relationship between brewing and other sorts of work in which women were engaged. Bennett has initiated an important discussion that should produce a deeper, more nuanced understanding of women's work in the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents:

	List of Abbreviations	xiii
	A Brief Note on Conventions and Terms	xv
1	Brewsters	3
2	When Women Brewed	14
3	New Markets, Lost Opportunities: Singlewomen and Widows as Harbingers of Change	37
4	Working Together: Wives and Husbands in the Brewers' Gild of London	60
5	New Beer, Old Ale: Why Was Female to Male as Ale Was to Beer?	77
6	Gender Rules: Women and the Regul ation of Brewing	98
7	These Things Must Be if We Sell Ale: Alewives in English Culture and Society	122
8	Women's Work in a Changing World	145
Appendix	Interpreting Presentments under the Assize of Ale	158
	Notes	187
	Bibliography	237
	Index	251