The billion dollar mistake
Subtitle: learning the art of investing through the missteps of legendary investors
By: Stephen L. Weiss.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780470481066
Subjects: Investments -- United States; Capitalists and financiers -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kirk Kerkorian : due diligence is due every time; title: David Bonderman : does this mean I also overpaid for the Rolling Stones; title: Aubrey McClendon : falling on the wrong edge of the two-edged leverage sword; title: Bill Ackman : detour from discipline; title: Nick Maounis : "trust, but verify"; title: Leon Cooperman : the pirate of Prague meets the prince of Princeton and the boy from the Bronx gets squeezed; title: Richard Pzena : fashions change, history persists or does it; title: Geoff Grant : style drift it's hot till it's not; title: Volkswagen and Porsche : the hare finally wins and the shorts get squeezed; title: Chris Davis : it was dressed like an insurance company, but it didn't quack like one; title: Madoff investors : hook, line, and sunk.