Pitch the Perfect Investment

The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street
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Pitch the Perfect Investment by Paul D. Sonkin and Paul Johnson is a guide that helps readers understand how to analyse and pitch investment opportunities effectively. It focuses on bridging the gap between analytical skills and investment practice, providing tools to craft compelling investment strategies. The book mixes real-world examples with a structured approach to develop thorough investment pitches for both beginners and seasoned professionals.
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If you have an interest in mastering the art of investment pitching, this book could be invaluable. It's designed to help you understand how to craft persuasive and logical investment presentations, with insights from experienced professionals in the finance world. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned investor, this guide could enhance your ability to make sound investment decisions and present them effectively.

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Pitch the Perfect Investment

Learn the overlooked skill that is essential to Wall Street success Pitch the Perfect Investment combines investment analysis with persuasion and sales to teach you the "soft skill" so crucial to success in the financial markets.

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Learn the overlooked skill that is essential to Wall Street success

Pitch the Perfect Investment combines investment analysis with persuasion and sales to teach you the "soft skill" so crucial to success in the financial markets. Written by the leading authorities in investment pitching, this book shows you how to develop and exploit the essential, career-advancing skill of pitching value-creating ideas to win over clients and investors.

You'll gain world-class insight into search strategy, data collection and research, securities analysis, and risk assessment and management to help you uncover the perfect opportunity. You'll then strengthen your critical thinking skills and draw on psychology, argumentation, and informal logic to craft the perfect pitch to showcase your perfect idea. The ability to effectively pitch an investment is essential to securing a job on Wall Street, where it immediately becomes a fundamental part of day-to-day business. This book gives you in-depth training along with access to complete online ancillaries and case studies so you can master the little skill that makes a big difference.

It doesn't matter how great your investment ideas are if you can't convince anyone to actually invest. Ideas must come to fruition to be truly great, and this book gives you the tools and understanding you need to get it done.

  • Persuade potential investors, clients, executives, and employers
  • Source, analyse, value, and pitch your ideas for stocks and acquisitions
  • Get hired, make money, expand your company, and win business
  • Craft the perfect investment into the perfect pitch

Money managers, analysts, bankers, executives, salespeople, students, and individual investors alike stand to gain massively by employing the techniques discussed here. If you're serious about success and ready to start moving up, Pitch the Perfect Investment shows you how to make it happen.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119051787

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 November 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 907g

Pages: 496

About the Author

PAUL D. SONKIN is an analyst and portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds and previously spent 14 years at the helm of The Hummingbird Value Fund. For 16 years he was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and is coauthor of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond.

PAUL JOHNSON runs Nicusa Investment Advisors and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He is a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing Illuminated (by Howard Marks), co-author of The Gorilla Game, and a contributing author to Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas.

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