Investment Banking For Dummies

Name: Investment Banking For Dummies
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ISBN: 9781119658597

Overview

Wrap your head around the complicated world of investment banking with this understandable and comprehensive resource

The celebrated authors of Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition have updated and modernized their best-selling book to bring readers an invaluable and accessible volume about the investment banking industry.

Written in the straightforward and approachable tone the For Dummies series is known for the world over, authors Matthew Krantz and Robert Johnson have created an indispensable resource for students and professionals new to investment banking.

The book covers all the crucial topics required to understand the fundamentals of the industry, including:

Strategies for different types of risk management: market, credit, operating, reputation, legal, and funding
The key investment banking operations: venture capital, buyouts, M&A, equity underwriting, debt, and more
The relationship between leverages buyout funds, hedge funds, and corporate and institutional clients

Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition offers, for the first time, a brand-new chapter devoted to cryptocurrencies, and new content on “unicorn” IPOs, including Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.

About The Author

Matt Krantz (Los Angeles, CA) is a nationally known financial journalist who specializes on investing topics. He has been with USA TODAY since 1999, where he covers financial markets and Wall Street, concentrating on developments affecting individual investors. In addition to covering markets for the print edition of USA TODAY, Matt writes a daily online investing column called "Ask Matt." Matt's recent books include Investing Online For Dummies and Fundamental Analysis For Dummies. Krantz is the author of Investing Online For Dummies and Fundamental Analysis For Dummies. Robert R. Johnson, (Charlottesville, VA), PhD, CFA, CAIA, is a Professor of Finance at Creighton University, where he teaches in the Master of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Program. He was formerly President and CEO of The American College of Financial Services and Deputy CEO of the CFA Institute. He has been extensively quoted in the global financial media.

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CHEAT SHEET

Investment banking has a big impact on the world you live in, whether you have investments or not, and understanding what investment bankers do is important. Part of investment banking has to do with mergers and acquisitions, like why companies buy other companies and what’s in it for them. Even people who aren’t big on investing sometimes get the urge to be part of an initial public offering, more commonly known as an IPO.