The Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary InvestorsISBN: 978-0-470-48106-6
Hardcover
272 pages
January 2010
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Kirk Kerkorian: Due Diligence Is Due Every Time 11
Chapter 2 David Bonderman: Does This Mean I Also Overpaid for the Rolling Stones? 31
Chapter 3 Aubrey McClendon: Falling on the Wrong Edge of the Two-Edged Leverage Sword 51
Chapter 4 Bill Ackman: Detour from Discipline 69
Chapter 5 Nick Maounis: “Trust, but Verify…” 89
Chapter 6 Leon Cooperman: The Pirate of Prague Meets the Prince of Princeton—and the Boy from the Bronx Gets Squeezed 109
Chapter 7 Richard Pzena: Fashions Change, History Persists—or Does It? 129
Chapter 8 Geoff Grant: Style Drift—It’s Hot Till It’s Not 149
Chapter 9 Volkswagen and Porsche: The Hare Finally Wins and the Shorts Get Squeezed 171
Chapter 10 Chris Davis: It Was Dressed like an Insurance Company, but It Didn’t Quack Like One… 195
Chapter 11 Madoff Investors: Hook, Line, and Sunk 215
Epilogue Me Too: Mistakes I’ve Made and Lessons I’ve Learned 235
Notes 237
Glossary 241
About the Author 249
Index 251
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