Investment Banking Explained: An Insider's Guide to the Industry - Hardcover

Fleuriet, Michel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071497331 ISBN 13: 9780071497336

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Synopsis

Understand the inner workings of investment banking

One of the most dynamic sectors of finance today, investment banking involves as much innovation and creativity as it does procedure and protocol. With clients ranging from small-business owners and individual investors to governments and multinational corporations, investment banking has enjoyed unprecedented growth in recent years. Nearly every major business venture and civil project requires the services of an investment bank. As a result, investment banking has become an extraordinarily complex business--even for those who work in it!

In Investment Banking Explained, former Wharton professor of global finance Michel Fleuriet provides a comprehensive overview of this exceedingly complicated sector. He begins with a brief history of the industry, whose roots date back to medieval Europe, then provides an inside look at investment banking in its modern form. He defines key terms, identifies structures and strategies, and offers practical advice for operating in various sectors of the industry. Each investment banking specialty is analyzed in detail, including:

• Client relationship management
• Equity research
• Equity and debt capital markets
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Third-party asset management

Investment Banking Explained probes the operations and strategies of the most successful institutions to illuminate the role of investment banks in the global economy.

No longer functioning strictly as intermediaries between issuers and investors, investment banks are taking on much more risk as they trade in more diverse products and invest their own capital. This thorough analysis provides a wealth of information and insight into the ever-evolving business of investment banking.

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About the Author

Michel Fleuriet, Ph.D.,  was the Harry W. Reynolds International Adjunct Professor ofFinance, Wharton School of Finance, at the University of Pennsylvania, and thefounder of university of Paris-Dauphine's master's program in investmentbanking. Prior to his career in academics, he served as chairman of HSBCFrance, chairman and head of investment banking at Merrill Lynch France, andCEO of Chase Manhattan France.

From the Back Cover

A Comprehensive Ground-Floor View of Investment Banking

Everything from key terms to advanced strategies

Investment Banking Explained provides a clear overview of this complex industry. It covers the history, key terms, structures, and strategies of investment banking and breaks the business down into its respective specialties--from traders, brokers, and analysts to relationship managers, hedgers, and retirement planners--illustrating how each contributes to the industry as a whole.

Written by a high-level investment-banking veteran, this comprehensive guide examines the operations of the world's most successful firms and their shifting approach to risk. It then travels to capital markets around the world to explain how investment banks are forging their international strategies.

Investment Banking Explained is the first step to gaining a clear and complete understanding of one of the most complicated, rapidly expanding, and critically important industries in the world today.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071497331
• ISBN 13: 9780071497336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368