The billion dollar mistake: learning the art of investing through the missteps of legendary investors

The Billion Dollar Mistake is about brilliant investment managers who committed significant, career-defining mistakes, and what we can learn from them. Drawing on the authors 22 years experience at some of Wall Streets most prestigious firms, the core of the book is based upon original research and interviews with prominent asset managers who will discuss the most significant trade or investment that went against them, the magnitude of the loss, its effect on their businesses and on their personal lives. The book offers an anatomy of thesemistakes and parses out the lessons we can learn from them. Examining the causal relationship between the quirks of each portfolio managers personality andthe mistakes they have committed is the central focus of each chapter. Weiss provides a series of compelling narrative accounts of the particular mistakes that some of the worlds greatest investors made, the character flaws that led to them, and the lessons learned.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-48106-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés