Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff

An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billion when bond insurers kicked off the collapse of the credit markets. <ul>
<li>Unravels the story of the credit crisis through an engaging and human drama</li> <li>Draws on unprecedented access to one of Wall Street's best-known investors</li> <li>Shows how excessive leverage, dangerous financial models, and a blind reliance on triple-A credit ratings sent Wall Street careening toward disaster</li> </ul>
Confidence Game is a real world "Emperor's New Clothes," a tale of widespread delusion, and one dissenting voice in the era leading up to the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression.

Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff

Richard, Christine

History

Bloomberg Pr

How do you build a financial advisory business in today’s competitive and often-saturated markets? How can you break through the clutter, and develop strong and lasting client relationships? We believe it can be done by harnessing the power of practice management! The Power of Practice Management shows you the “how,” “why” and “what” of taking your business to the next level, introducing you to best practices and the thinking behind actions of some of the industry’s top-quartile firms. Author Matt Matrisian leads you on a journey filled with intriguing ideas and bottom-line lessons that teach you how to work on your business, not just in it. Whether you’re the head of a large advisory firm, part of a small practice or just starting out, you will discover a roadmap for turning your good business into a better one. The author also addresses: <ul>
<li>Making business strategy and planning part of your defined game plan;</li> <li>Transforming your firm’s vision and goals to build your business</li> <li>Capitalizing on referral sources and centers of influence</li> <li>Your personal brand as a product of intuitive thinking</li> <li>And much more.</li> </ul>
The Power of Practice Management teaches you how to channel the strength of your business and connect it to your clients’ experiences. The results unlock the secrets to driving customer loyalty, referral revenue, and business prosperity. In the process, you’ll also enhance your personal brand – allowing you the opportunity for business prosperity.

The Power of Practice Management: Best Practices for Building a Better Advisory Business

Matrisian, Matt

Reference

The step-by-step visual guide to spotting potential price movements and improving returns Bloomberg Visual Guide to Chart Patterns is a concise and accessible visual guide to identifying, understanding, and using chart patterns to predict the direction and extent of price moves. Packed with visual learning enhancements and exercises, this innovative book helps savvy investors and professionals alike master the essential skills of chart pattern recognition. Follow along as chart pattern expert Thomas Bulkowski teaches you to recognize important peaks and valleys that form patterns―footprints of the smart money. Nearly 200 color charts assist in providing a step-by-step approach to finding those footprints, interpreting them, and following them. Popular patterns such as head-and-shoulders, double tops and bottoms, triangles, gaps, flags, and pennants are just a few of the many patterns explored throughout the book. For the sophisticated trader or investor, the book also provides statistical research to support the claims of pattern behavior, trading signals, and setups, in an easy to understand way. <ul>
<li>Discusses chart pattern identification guidelines, psychology, variations, failures, and buy and sell signals</li> <li>Covers the most popular and common chart patterns as well as lesser-known ones like throwbacks, pullbacks, and busted patterns</li> <li>Incorporates quizzes, step-by-step exercises, enhanced graphics and video tutorials to immerse the reader in the world of chart patterns</li> </ul>
Designed for use by investors and traders, from beginners to experts looking for a practical, easy-to-use guide, comprehensive reference, Bloomberg Visual Guide to Chart Patterns provides a sophisticated introduction to the world of chart patterns.

Visual Guide to Chart Patterns

Business & Money

Bulkowski, Thomas N.

Finance

Everything you need to know for successful wealth management for families Although the family office concept is not new, it is a phenomenon that is changing the wealth management landscape. With celebrities and business moguls, investment gurus and family business icons establishing private wealth management advisory firms, more and more individuals are asking what exactly is a family office and how does it operate? Family offices either serve one family exclusively or typically manage the wealth of a number of affluent families. If you’re like most families and advisors, you’re familiar with family offices, but may not know exactly how they work or why the family office is right for you or your clients. Dr. Kirby Rosplock, an expert on the family office concept, provides insights to some of the most common questions and even misperceptions in this handbook. The Complete Family Office Handbook explains how family offices operate, who should consider forming or joining one, and how to craft and set up a structure, purpose and vision for the office that fully serves a family’s particular needs and investment goals. Whether you’re a wealth creator, a member of a wealthy family considering forming or joining a family office, or a professional contemplating a career in this growing segment of the wealth management industry, this comprehensive guide provides insights to some of the most common questions and misperceptions.

The Complete Family Office Handbook: A Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisors Who Serve Them

Rosplock, Kirby, Ph.D.

Personal Finance

The most comprehensive guide to the global state of free press in 2015 Attacks on the Press is the world's most comprehensive guide to international press freedom. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, this informative guide features analytical essays from CPJ and other experts and provides a platform for direct advocacy with governments and the diplomatic community to give voice to journalists worldwide. Reporters and photographers face a myriad of risks, from highly publicized murder to imprisonment, cyberattacks, harassment, frivolous lawsuits, and censorship. The risks are increasing due to widespread unrest and in response to the broad dissemination of critical information through social media and the Internet. This book gives journalists a seat at the discussions at the United Nations, Organization of American States, European Union, African Union, and more, to protect journalists and the freedom of press that is so essential to human rights. By publicly revealing abuses against the press and acting on behalf of imprisoned and threatened journalists, CPJ effectively warns journalists and news organizations where free press is in danger. This book is their annual guide to where these attacks are occurring, and who is doing the attacking.  Assess dangers to freelance journalists in conflict zones Evaluate new forms of censorship in places like Egypt, Hong Kong, and Turkey Contemplate the long-range impacts of the publicized executions of journalists by militant groups Review available cybersecurity measures and the price journalists pay to keep up with spies Analyze the 10 most censored countries in the world  Strong press freedom encourages the growth of a robust civil society, which leads to stable, sustainable democracies and healthy social, political, and economic development. Attacks on the Press is the most comprehensive annual survey of global press freedom, and a calling out of those who threaten it.

Attacks on the Press 2015: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists

Anyone running a business, overseeing cash flow, or managing a specific portfolio needs to understand swaps--not necessarily to deal, but to talk to those who do, and to evaluate whether and how swaps can help the bottom line. This book quickly equips executives, managers, and directors to use swaps effectively.

Swap Literacy: A Comprehensible Guide (Bloomberg Professional Library)

Ungar, Elizabeth

Economics

The average household spends 16 of its budget on insurance, yet consumers know very little about their coverage. In "Smarter Insurance Solution" Bamford discusses insurance simply and intelligently, stripping away the mysteries surrounding this often invisible investment, and teaches consumers the skills they need to act as managers of their own insurance portfolios.

Smarter Insurance Solutions (Bloomberg Personal Library)

Bamford, Janet

Investing

Mary Rowland has distilled the experience of an elite group of 55 financial advisors into a compact handbook on excellence for planners of all kinds. Anyone managing money-fee-based planners, brokers, trust officers, attorneys, accountants-will reap scores of valuable tips and recommendations from 55 professionals considered by their peers to be among the best in the business. Based on hundreds of hours of group discussions among these top performers, Best Practices For Financial Advisors lays out practical steps for improving business quality, efficiency, and volume. It gives tested solutions for the most challenging problems financial planners face. Whether the concern is staying current, answering legal questions, earning client loyalty, or marketing new services, Best Practices For Financial Advisors has authoritative information on: Getting the best training and education; Legal steps to registering with the SEC and other key certifications; What due diligence means in practice; Avoiding, disclosing, and eliminating conflicts of interest; What to tell clients about fees, procedures, asset classes, and risk; Meeting fiduciary responsibilities-and the business benefits of putting the client first; Strateties that match clients with suitable investments; Ways to market services, retain the best clients, and attract business.

Best Practices for Financial Advisors (Bloomberg Professional Library)

BLOOMBERG, MICHAEL R.

Rowland, Mary

Lynn Brenner gets to the heart of success in personal planning with more than 80 smart questions to help you get first-rate financial advice that really fits your needs. Drawing on real situations described by readers of her weekly newspaper column. Brenner supplies an easy-to-follow guide through common dilemmas that arise in investing, getting married or divorced, buying or selling a house, planning your estate, and living on your 401(k) and IRAs in retirement - and tells you what expensive mistakes to avoid when you are buying insurance, minimizing your taxes, saving for college, and surviving unemployment.

Smart Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisers (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf)

Brenner, Lynn

Alternative financing is the wise choice for many business owners needing from $250,000 to $15 million in capital to fuel the growth of their companies. This book is an invaluable resource for all aspects of obtaining alternative financing, including incubators, royalty financing, angels, margin loans, and more.

Where to Go When the Bank Says No : Alternatives For Financing Your Business

Evanson, David R.

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