About this title: 'A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal "Capital Ideas". Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive chronicle of a truly historic era' - John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and author, "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing". 'Just as Dante could not have understood or ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 2007-05-04
ISBN-13:9780471731733ISBN:0471731730
Description: Fair. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. First two pages removed. Notes and underlined text throughout. *Ships Next Business day* read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date Published: 2009-05-04
ISBN-13:9780470452493ISBN:0470452498
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780470452493ISBN:0470452498
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 304 pages. Provides insights on how key finance theories have evolved from their ivory tower formulation to profitable application by portfolio managers. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date Published: 2007-05-11
ISBN-13:9780471731733ISBN:0471731730
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780471731733. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780470452493ISBN:0470452498
Description: New. Provides insights on how key finance theories have evolved from their ivory tower formulation to profitable application by portfolio managers. read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780471731733ISBN:0471731730
Description: New. Offers insights on how key finance theories have evolved from their ivory tower formulation to profitable application by portfolio managers. This book introduces us to the insights of investment giants, and explains how they transformed financial theo... read more
The author, Peter L. Bernstein, definitely has been around, and shares with us his access to his friends to some of the great thinkers and innovators in finance. If you want to know about the core philosophies of Goldman Sachs or Barlclays Global Investors, Bernstein has friends in high places there, and he tells you what they themselves have to say on the topic.
But, Bernstein's style is quirky and at times distracting. He is obsessed with one particular footnote* to such an extent that you might want to make a drinking game out of it. And there are so many quotation marks around so many of his friends' bon mots, at times it feels like the Zagat guide to modern portfolio theory.
Nevertheless, I did learn that, like me, Andrew Lo was influenced by Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. That is classic sci-fi nerd cred that is not easy to come by.
*"Unless otherwise specified, all quotations are from personal interviews or personal correspondence.""
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