Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format. Lecturer: John M. Longo, Rutgers Business School. Course no. 5000. The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.
Contents:
Investing skill, strategy, and temperament -- Benjamin Graham and value investing -- Warren Buffett: investing forever -- Fisher and Price: the growth-stock investors -- Harry Markowitz's Modern portfolio theory -- John Bogle, index mutual fund pioneer -- Small-cap stocks: more risk, more reward -- John Templeton, global treasure hunter -- David Dreman, contrarian money manager -- Peter Lynch: invest in what you know -- The bond kings: Bill Gross, Jeffrey Gundlach -- Sovereign wealth funds: Singapore -- The first hedge fund: A. W. Jones -- Activist investors: Icahn, Loeb, Ackman -- The big shorts: Livermore, Chanos -- George Soros's $10 billion currency play -- Bridgewater's multi-strategy investing -- Paul Tudor Jones, futures market seer -- James Simons: money, math, and computers -- Distressed-asset investors: Tepper, Klarman -- Motorcycles, gold, and global commodities -- Private equity innovators: KKR, Blackstone -- Four women who moved financial markets -- Becoming a great investor.
Summary:
Learn the secrets of the most successful investors in history.
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