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  • Asian Financial Statement Analysis – Detecting Financial Irregularities…

    • August 27, 2015
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    Book Review Of: Asian Financial Statement Analysis – Detecting Financial Irregularities Authors: ChinHwee Tan and Thomas R. Robinson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons. www.wiley.com (2014) Pages: 192 Price: INR 3065 (Kindle Edition) Reviewed by Chetan Shah,...
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  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century – a Book Review…

    • December 22, 2014
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    Title: Capital In the Twenty-First Century Author: Thomas Piketty Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (12-May-2014) ISBN: 978-0674430006 Pages: 696, Price: Rs965 Reviewed by: Jainendra Shandilya, CFA, CAIA ‘Capital in the twenty first...
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  • Book Launch Event – “Gurus of Chaos: Modern India’s Money Masters”

    • November 24, 2014
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      Contributed by: Ishwar Chidambaram, CFA IAIP organized a book launch event in Mumbai on Friday, November 22; wherein the author & speaker Saurabh Mukherjea, CFA, shared his experience as well as key themes in his book “Gurus of Chaos: Modern...
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  • Book Review: Gurus of Chaos…

    • November 7, 2014
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    Title: Gurus of Chaos – Modern India’s Money Masters Author: Saurabh Mukherjea Publisher: Bloomsbury India ISBN:  978-93-84052-55-3 Pages: 171 Price: Rs.  350 Reviewed By: Sonia Gandhi, CFA  An enormous amount of unwarranted noise and chatter coupled...
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  • Book Review: The Dollar Trap – How the US Dollar Tightened Its Grip On Global Finance

    • June 17, 2014
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    Title: The Dollar Trap: How the US Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance Author: Eswar S. Prasad Publisher: Penguin ISBN: -13 9780670087624; ISBN-10 0670087629 Pages: 432 Kindle Price: Rs. 349.50, Hardcover Price: Rs. 503 Reviewed By: Jainendra Shandilya,...
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  • Book Review: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf…

    • March 26, 2014
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    Title: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust Authors: John Coates. Publisher: Fourth Estate, Great Britain(May 2012) ISIN: 9780007413515 Pages: 288 Price: Hard cover Rs.2176, Kindle edition Rs.730 Reviewed...
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  • Book Review: Boards that Lead…

    • December 12, 2013
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    Title: Boards That Lead Authors: Ram Charan, Dennis Carey, Michael Useem Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (November 19th 2013) ISIN: 1422144054 Pages: 306 Price: Hard cover $35, Kindle edition $16.99 Reviewed by: Chetan Shah, CFA With increasing pressure...
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  • Book Review: Best Practices for Equity Research Analyst

    • November 8, 2013
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    Title: Best Practices for Equity Research Analyst Author: James J. Valentine, CFA Publisher: McGraw Hill (December 2010) Website: http://analystsolutions.com/book/ Pages: 407 Price: Rs479/- ISBN – 10: 1-25-900395-7 ISBN – 13: 978-1-25-900395-0...
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  • Book Review: An Economist’s Miscellany

    • November 6, 2013
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    Title: An Economist’s Miscellany Authors: Kaushik Basu Publisher: Oxford University Press (April 2011) ISBN-10: 0198072503 ISBN-13: 978-0198072508 Pages: 240 Price: Rs. 395.00 Reviewer: Jainendra Shandilya, CFA Kaushik Basu does not need any introduction,...
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  • Book Review – An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions

    • October 10, 2013
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    Title: An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions Authors: Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Publisher: Allen Lane (2013) ISBN-13: 9781846147616 ISBN-10: 1846147611 Pages: 433 MSRP: Rs. 699.00 Reviewer: Abhimanyu J L “A democratic country can hardly want to...
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