Aaron Brown 
The Poker Face of Wall Street [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

Foreword.

Preface.

Chapter 1. The Art of Uncalculated Risk.

Chapter 2. Poker Basics.

Chapter 3. Finance Basics.

Chapter 4. A Brief History of Risk Denial.

Chapter 5. Pokernomics.

Chapter 6. Son of a Soft Money Bank.

Chapter 7. The Once-Bold Mates of Morgan.

Chapter 8. The Games People Play.

Chapter 9. Who Got Game.

Chapter 10. Utility Belt.

Annotated Bibliography.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Aaron Brown is an executive director at the investment bank Morgan Stanley and a serious lifelong poker player who has played with Wall Street tycoons and world champion poker pros. He holds degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard and finance from the University of Chicago. He has been a finance professor and a trader as well as a portfolio manager and risk manager for Prudential Insurance, JPMorgan, Rabobank, and Citigroup.