US and FOREIGN ASSET ALLOCATION
This article discusses the Equity Allocation of a good, balanced investment portfolio. I like to think of an equity portfolio as split between "US Equities" and "The rest of the World". This is mostly due to the size of the US market. [... more]
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Stephen Frey
Stephen Frey is a principal at a Northern Virginia private equity firm. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at J.P. Morgan and as a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank in midtown Manhattan. Frey is also the ... [... more]
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David A. Vise
David A. Vise, formerly a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The Washington Post, is a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, and to New Mountain Vantage, the firm's public equity fund. He is the author of ... [... more]
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Every Business Needs an Angel
John May is the founder of New Vantage Group, a Vienna, Virginia, firm that mobilizes private equity into early-stage companies and develops innovative venture funds. Prior to cofounding and organizing hundreds of angel investors into The Dinner ... [... more]
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Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook
 Perhaps the only book available on the subject matter: Over the past few years the institutional private equity market has exploded. Riding on the backs phenomenal public markets and a wave of technological innovation, private equity in general and [... more]
CDN$95.95
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Style Investing: Unique Insight Into Equity Management
Excellent, a Truly Unique Book: This is a very unique book. It covers topics which other books do not. Most other investing books look at stock picking, technical methods for market timing, or basic value vs. growth strategies. This book goes beyond [... more]
CDN$77.99
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Structured Equity Derivatives: The Definitive Guide to ...
Good job Dr Kat!: Very good book on structuring of derivaties. Yes, this book is mainly on structuring not pricing and some reviewers seem to forget about that blaiming it on the lack of mind-boggling maths! Good one for someone who is new in the area or [... more]
CDN$173.99
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Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest in Private Equity
Long winded, but worth a good skim: This book could easily have been cut by 100 pages or more without losing any information. The author says the same thing over and over and over and over again, almost as if he was being paid by the page (or trying to [... more]
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Reverse Mortgage Safeguards Protect Seniors (2/15/06)
A reverse mortgage is a loan that enables senior homeowners 62 or older to borrow against the equity in their home, without having to sell the home, give up title, or take on a new monthly mortgage payment. The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ... [... more]
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Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
How to make any business more valuable: This is one of the titles in the "Memo to the CEO" series published by Harvard Business Press, each less than 200 pages in length and superbly produced. In fact, none of them is a "memo" nor [... more]
CDN$18.75
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PIPEs: A Guide to Private Investments in Public Equity
Superb Introduction to PIPES through 2002: Seldom have I read as informative and as easy to understand a book as this one on a little understood area of private finance. PIPEs (Private Investments in Public Equity) mainly appear in the business press [... more]
CDN$110.00
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Consider Your Options: Get the Most from You Equity ...
From Amazon.com: Just about everyone has heard a story about a corporate secretary or twentysomething Microsoft employee who retired early--as a millionaire--not because of winning the lottery, but because she exercised the stock options granted by her [... more]
CDN$24.51
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