Finished the following books:
Great book on investing! Very easy to read and short too! Joel Greenblatt describes a “magic formula” to rank stocks (based on two criteria: Return on Assets and Earnings yield (reverse of P/E!), rank stocks with higher numbers for both. Add the two ranks and rerank based on sum of the [...]
Today’s speaker was Morgan Dene Oliver who is a CEO of OliverMcMillan, a real estate development and management firm. While his projector was getting fixed, he started by doing some show-of-hands about who in the audience:
1. believes “Art and Design” are essential for their future success ? (Many hands went up)
2. believes they are left [...]
This was the first professional seminar. Leo Spiegel is a managing partner with Mission Ventures, a hi-tech venture capital firm. Leo has been a president of Digital Island, CEO of Sandpiper Networks. He is also a member of Dean’s advisory Council of Rady School of Management, UCSD.
This was an interesting and engaging presentation about [...]
John Mutch has been a CEO of HNC software and was appointed the CEO of Peregrine Systems by Federal Bankruptcy court. He took Peregrine Systems from bankruptcy condition to the price tag of $425 millions (HP was the buyer). Since then he started a MV Advisors, an “Activist hedge fund”.
What is an Activist Hedge Fund [...]
The Automatic Millionaire (by David Bach) is a little book telling a simple and automatic formula to become a millionaire. It talks about saving money (by sacrificing costly lattes, cigarrettes etc. if needed), effects of compounding (really dumbs down the argument).
Here is a brief sumary of the book:
* Save at least a few dollars [...]
