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- Product code: 23007
- ISBN: 0471770574,
ISBN13: 9780471770572,
368 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc on 2006
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Description of The Poker Face of Wall Street |
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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Contents of The Poker Face of Wall Street |
Foreword
Preface
1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk
2. Poker Basics
3. Finance Basics
4. A Brief History of Risk Denial
5. Pokernomics
6. Son of a Soft Money Bank
7. The once-bold mates of Morgan
8. The Games People Play
9. Who Got Game
10. Utility Belt
11. Annotated Bibliography
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About Aaron Brown |
AARON BROWN is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley. He won the Wilmott Award in 2005 as Financial Educator of the Year for his speaking, writing, and activism. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard (where he played poker with a future world's richest man and a future president of the United States) and finance from the University of Chicago (where he played poker with three Nobel Prize winners). A well-known Wall Street quant, he is a columnist for Wilmott, the leading journal serving the quantitative finance community. He has been involved in trading, risk management, and portfolio management for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup. He is also a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros.
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