Brown The Poker Face of Wall Street

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-16110-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Wall Street is where poker and modern finance?and the theory behindthese "games"?clash head on. In both worlds, real risk means realmoney is made or lost in a heart beat, and neither camp is alwaysrational with the risk it takes. As a result, business andfinancial professionals who want to use poker insights to improvetheir job performance will find this entertaining book a "mustread." So will poker players searching for an edge in applying theinsights of risk-takers on Wall Street.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Aaron

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Preface.
Chapter 1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk.
Chapter 2. Poker Basics.
Chapter 3. Finance Basics.
Chapter 4. A Brief History of Risk Denial.
Chapter 5. Pokernomics.
Chapter 6. Son of a Soft Money Bank.
Chapter 7. The Once-Bold Mates of Morgan.
Chapter 8. The Games People Play.
Chapter 9. Who Got Game.
Chapter 10. Utility Belt.
Annotated Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Brown is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard and finance from the University of Chicago. He has been a finance professor and a trader as well as a portfolio manager and risk manager for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup.