Professional Communications in the Investment Business

<jats:p>The textbook helps to shape practical competencies in all major aspects of professional communications in the investment business for beginners and to systematize acquired knowledge for experienced professionals. In order to comprehensively master this academic discipline, professional communications are considered in three functional and semantic fi elds: (1) centripetal communications that bring information about the external environment into the investment decision-making center, (2) centrifugal communications which are useful when investment decision-making centers need to deliver information about themselves to the external perimeter of interested parties, and (3) analytical communications that allow comparing an investment asset of interest with similar or competing assets based on the ratings methodology.</jats:p>