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作者簡介
MARTIN J. WHITMAN, CFA, is Chairman, CEO, and portfolio manager of the successful Third Avenue Value Fund and the Third Avenue Small Cap Value Fund. A leader in value investing, he is a Management Fellow at the Yale University School of Management.
圖書目錄
Part I DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO THE INVESTMENT PROCESS Chapter 1 What is Value Investing? Chapter 2 Academic Finance: Efficient Market Hypothesis and Efficient Portfolio Theory Chapter 3 Graham and Dodd Fundamentalism Chapter 4 Broker-Dealer Research Departments and Conventional Money Managers Part II REAL-WORLD CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 5 Corporate Valuation Chapter 6 The Substantive Characteristics of Securties Chapter 7 Capital Structure Chapter 8 Promoters' and Professionals' Compensations Chapter 9 Uses and Limitations of Financial Accounting Chapter 10 Uses and Limitations of Narrative Disclosures Chapter 11 Semantics Counts Part III RESOURCE CONVERSION Chapter 12 A Simplified Example Chapter 13 Acquiring Securities in Bulk Chapter 14 Restructuring Troubled Companies Chapter 15 Other Resource Conversion Topics Epilogue: The Values of Value Investing Index