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- 12-Steps:
- Step 1
Step 1: Active Investors
Definitions
Problems
- 1.3.1 Active Investors are Everywhere
- 1.3.2 Active Investors are Gamblers
- 1.3.3 Active Investors Lose
- 1.3.4 The Poor Accounting of Active Investors
- 1.3.5 Stock Market Prices are Random
- 1.3.6 Stock Markets are Efficient
- 1.3.7 When Risk Capacity is not Matched with Risk Exposure
- 1.3.8 The High Cost of Turnover
- 1.3.9 The Emotional Stress of Active Investing
- 1.3.10 More than 1,500 Investors can be Wrong
- Step 2
Step 2: Nobel Laureates
Definitions
Solutions
- Alfred Nobel
- Blaise Pascal
- Edmund Halley
- Adam Smith
- Louis Bachelier
- Alfred Cowles
- Harry Markowitz
- James Tobin
- Frank Modigliani
- Merton Miller
- William Sharpe
- Paul Samuelson
- Eugene Fama
- Michael Jensen
- Rex Sinquefield
- Friedrich von Hayek
- Burton Malkiel
- John Bogle
- David Booth
- Kenneth French
- Who Do You Trust?
- Market Forces: May They Be With You
- Step 3
Step 3: Stock Pickers
Definitions
Problems
- 3.3.1 Why Stock Pickers Fail
- 3.3.2 The Stock Picker’s Graveyard
- 3.3.3 Incubator Funds
- 3.3.4 Studies and Observations that Show the Daunting Odds of Stock Picking
- 3.3.5 Stock Pickers and Coin Flippers
- 3.3.6 Stock Pickers are Focused on Short Term
- 3.3.7 Stock Pickers are Style Drifters
- 3.3.8 Stock Pickers are Looking for a Needle in a Haystack
- 3.3.9 Stock Pickers Play a Zero Sum Game
- 3.3.10 Stock Pickers in International Markets
- 3.3.11 Stock Pickers in Small-Cap Markets
- 3.3.12 Stock Pickers Pay More Taxes
- 3.3.13 Stock Picking Gurus and Their Real Records
- 3.3.14 Stock Pickers Don’t Want You to Know the Truth
- Step 4
Step 4: Time Pickers
Problems
- Step 5
Step 5: Manager Pickers
Problems
- Step 6
- Step 7
Step 7: Silent Partners
- Step 8
Step 8: Riskese
Definitions
- 8.2.1 Standard Deviation
- 8.2.2 Probability Distributions and Histograms
- 8.2.3 Mean Reversion
- 8.2.4 Expected Return
- 8.2.5 Rolling Period Returns
- 8.2.6 Risk
- 8.2.7 The Dimensions of Stock Return
- Market Risk Factor
- Size Risk Factor
- Value Risk Factor
- Term Risk Factor
- Default Risk Factor
- 8.2.8 Implications of the Fama/French Three-Factor Model
- 8.2.9 Time Diversification of Risk
Problems
- Step 9
Step 9: History
- Step 10
Step 10: Risk Capacity
Definitions
Problems
- Step 11
Step 11: Risk Exposure
Definitions
Problems
Solutions
- 11.4.2 Index Mutual Funds Earn more Return and Eliminate more Risk
- 11.4.3 The Most Efficient Funds on the Market
- Small Cap Strategy
- U.S. Small-Cap Strategy
- U.S. Micro-Cap Strategy
- Value Strategies
- U.S. Small-Cap Value Strategy
- U.S. Large-Cap Value Strategy
- Real Estate Securities Strategy
- U.S. Large Company Strategy
- Developed International Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Fixed Income
- 11.4.4 Are Commodities Worth the Risk?
- 11.4.5 Matching People with Portfolios
- Step 12
Step 12: Invest and Relax
Definitions
- 12.2.1 Registered Investment Advisers
- 12.2.2 Dimensional Fund Advisors
- 12.2.3 Rebalancing Portfolios
- 12.2.4 Rebalancing Formula
- 12.2.5 Tax Loss Harvesting
- 12.2.5a Mutual Fund Distributions
- 12.2.5b Cash Withdrawal Considerations
- 12.2.6 Financial Advice
- Estate Planning
- Insurance
- Accounting and Tax Advice
- Investment Advisors
- Life Planning
- The Glide Path of Life and Your IFA Index Portfolio
- Retirement Planner
Problems
- 12.3.1 Active Investors Procrastinate
- 12.3.2 Active Investors "Go It Alone"
- 12.3.3 The Media Wants Investors to Worry
- Asset Allocation
- Minimization of Investment Costs
- Minimization of Taxes
- Reliable Investment Performance
- A Simple and Understandable Investment Strategy
- An Easier Way to Track Investment Performance
- Increased Leverage and Compounding
of Investment Wealth - Invest like Institutional Investors
The Poker Face of Wall Street
Author: Aaron Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year Printed: 2006
Edition: First
Printing: First
Condition: Good
eBook: Google eBook
Pages: 350
Height: 9.25 inches
Width: 6.25 inches
Notes: Dust Jacket, Hard Cover
Wall Street is where poker and modern finance and the theory behind these "games" clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means real money is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is always rational with the risk it takes. As a result, business and financial professionals who want to use poker insights to improve their job performance will find this entertaining book a "must read." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying the insights of risk-takers on Wall Street.
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- 12-Steps:
- Step 1
Step 1: Active Investors
Definitions
Problems
- 1.3.1 Active Investors are Everywhere
- 1.3.2 Active Investors are Gamblers
- 1.3.3 Active Investors Lose
- 1.3.4 The Poor Accounting of Active Investors
- 1.3.5 Stock Market Prices are Random
- 1.3.6 Stock Markets are Efficient
- 1.3.7 When Risk Capacity is not Matched with Risk Exposure
- 1.3.8 The High Cost of Turnover
- 1.3.9 The Emotional Stress of Active Investing
- 1.3.10 More than 1,500 Investors can be Wrong
- Step 2
Step 2: Nobel Laureates
Definitions
Solutions
- Alfred Nobel
- Blaise Pascal
- Edmund Halley
- Adam Smith
- Louis Bachelier
- Alfred Cowles
- Harry Markowitz
- James Tobin
- Frank Modigliani
- Merton Miller
- William Sharpe
- Paul Samuelson
- Eugene Fama
- Michael Jensen
- Rex Sinquefield
- Friedrich von Hayek
- Burton Malkiel
- John Bogle
- David Booth
- Kenneth French
- Who Do You Trust?
- Market Forces: May They Be With You
- Step 3
Step 3: Stock Pickers
Definitions
Problems
- 3.3.1 Why Stock Pickers Fail
- 3.3.2 The Stock Picker’s Graveyard
- 3.3.3 Incubator Funds
- 3.3.4 Studies and Observations that Show the Daunting Odds of Stock Picking
- 3.3.5 Stock Pickers and Coin Flippers
- 3.3.6 Stock Pickers are Focused on Short Term
- 3.3.7 Stock Pickers are Style Drifters
- 3.3.8 Stock Pickers are Looking for a Needle in a Haystack
- 3.3.9 Stock Pickers Play a Zero Sum Game
- 3.3.10 Stock Pickers in International Markets
- 3.3.11 Stock Pickers in Small-Cap Markets
- 3.3.12 Stock Pickers Pay More Taxes
- 3.3.13 Stock Picking Gurus and Their Real Records
- 3.3.14 Stock Pickers Don’t Want You to Know the Truth
- Step 4
Step 4: Time Pickers
Problems
- Step 5
Step 5: Manager Pickers
Problems
- Step 6
- Step 7
Step 7: Silent Partners
- Step 8
Step 8: Riskese
Definitions
- 8.2.1 Standard Deviation
- 8.2.2 Probability Distributions and Histograms
- 8.2.3 Mean Reversion
- 8.2.4 Expected Return
- 8.2.5 Rolling Period Returns
- 8.2.6 Risk
- 8.2.7 The Dimensions of Stock Return
- Market Risk Factor
- Size Risk Factor
- Value Risk Factor
- Term Risk Factor
- Default Risk Factor
- 8.2.8 Implications of the Fama/French Three-Factor Model
- 8.2.9 Time Diversification of Risk
Problems
- Step 9
Step 9: History
- Step 10
Step 10: Risk Capacity
Definitions
Problems
- Step 11
Step 11: Risk Exposure
Definitions
Problems
Solutions
- 11.4.2 Index Mutual Funds Earn more Return and Eliminate more Risk
- 11.4.3 The Most Efficient Funds on the Market
- Small Cap Strategy
- U.S. Small-Cap Strategy
- U.S. Micro-Cap Strategy
- Value Strategies
- U.S. Small-Cap Value Strategy
- U.S. Large-Cap Value Strategy
- Real Estate Securities Strategy
- U.S. Large Company Strategy
- Developed International Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Fixed Income
- 11.4.4 Are Commodities Worth the Risk?
- 11.4.5 Matching People with Portfolios
- Step 12
Step 12: Invest and Relax
Definitions
- 12.2.1 Registered Investment Advisers
- 12.2.2 Dimensional Fund Advisors
- 12.2.3 Rebalancing Portfolios
- 12.2.4 Rebalancing Formula
- 12.2.5 Tax Loss Harvesting
- 12.2.5a Mutual Fund Distributions
- 12.2.5b Cash Withdrawal Considerations
- 12.2.6 Financial Advice
- Estate Planning
- Insurance
- Accounting and Tax Advice
- Investment Advisors
- Life Planning
- The Glide Path of Life and Your IFA Index Portfolio
- Retirement Planner
Problems
- 12.3.1 Active Investors Procrastinate
- 12.3.2 Active Investors "Go It Alone"
- 12.3.3 The Media Wants Investors to Worry
- Asset Allocation
- Minimization of Investment Costs
- Minimization of Taxes
- Reliable Investment Performance
- A Simple and Understandable Investment Strategy
- An Easier Way to Track Investment Performance
- Increased Leverage and Compounding
of Investment Wealth - Invest like Institutional Investors
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