Table of Contents
Section One: Investment Banking
1 – Overview of Investment Banking
2 – Regulation of the Securities Industry
3 – Financings
4 – Mergers&Acquisitions
5 – Trading
6 – Asset Management, Wealth Management and Research
7 – Credit Rating Agencies, Exchanges and Clearing and Settlement
8 – International Banking
9 – Convertible Securities and Wall Street Innovation
10 – Investment Banking Career Opportunities and Trends
Section Two: Hedge Funds and Private Equity
11 – Overview of Hedge Funds
12 – Hedge Fund Investment Strategies
13 – Shareholder Activism and Impact on Corporations
14 – Risk, Regulation and Organizational Structure
15 – Hedge Fund Issues and Performance
16 – Overview of Private Equity
17 – LBO Financial Model
18 – Private Equity Impact on Corporations
19 – Organization, Compensation, Regulation and Limited Partners
20 – Issues and Opportunities
Section Three: Case Studies
- Investment Banking in 2008 (A): Rise and Fall of the Bear
- Investment Banking in 2008 (B): A Brave New World
- Freeport-McMoRan: Financing an Acquisition
- The Best Deal Gillette Could Get? Procter&Gamble’s Acquisition of Gillette
- A Tale of Two Hedge Funds: Magnetar, Peloton, CDOs, and the 2008 Financial Crisis
- Kmart, Sears, and ESL: How a Hedge Fund Became One of the World’s Largest Retailers
- McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Hedge Funds: Hamburger Hedging? Hedge Fund Activism and Impact on Corporate Governance
- Porsche, Volkswagen and CSX: Cars, Trains and Derivatives
- The Toys "R" Us LBO
- Cerberus and the U.S. Auto Industry