Wall Street: Back to Basics

by Alex Gavrish

To succeed in investment activities, you should master three skills: research and valuation, risk management, and have a different thinking approach. While many succeed in first two areas, the third one is much more complicated; thinking differently is difficult to master. This book will help you improve your investment decision making and will offer you a range of thinking approaches that you can implement to achieve your investment objectives. Includes such topics as special dividends, share buybacks, activist investors, time arbitrage and other useful concepts. Each chapter is supplemented with case studies of actual investment situations that illustrate the discussed concepts.

294 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2013

About the author

Alex Gavrish is a founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research (www.etalon-ir.com), an investment research and management boutique that is focused on serving institutional as well as sophisticated individual investors. Alex was born and grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 18. He decided to write Wall Street: Back to Basics in order to help individual investors achieve greater success in managing their investments and make better investment decisions. The book fills a gap in the existing literature on investments and finance that almost completely overlooks the issues of how to THINK about the market.