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Investment Banking For Dummies


Investment Banking For Dummies


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von: Matthew Krantz, Robert R. Johnson

19,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 14.07.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781119748724
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 400

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<p><b>Wrap your head around the complicated world of investment banking with this understandable and comprehensive resource </b></p> <p>The celebrated authors of <i>Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition</i> have updated and modernized their best-selling book to bring readers an invaluable and accessible volume about the investment banking industry. </p> <p>Written in the straightforward and approachable tone the For Dummies series is known for the world over, authors Matthew Krantz and Robert Johnson have created an indispensable resource for students and professionals new to investment banking. </p> <p>The book covers all the crucial topics required to understand the fundamentals of the industry, including: </p> <ul> <li>Strategies for different types of risk management: market, credit, operating, reputation, legal, and funding </li> <li>The key investment banking operations: venture capital, buyouts, M&A, equity underwriting, debt, and more </li> <li>The relationship between leverages buyout funds, hedge funds, and corporate and institutional clients </li> </ul> <p><i>Investment Banking For Dummies, 2nd Edition</i> offers, for the first time, a brand-new chapter devoted to cryptocurrencies, and new content on “unicorn” IPOs, including Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.  </p>
<p><b>Introduction </b><b>1</b></p> <p>About This Book 1</p> <p>Foolish Assumptions 3</p> <p>Icons Used in This Book 3</p> <p>Beyond the Book 4</p> <p>Where to Go from Here 4</p> <p><b>Part 1: Getting Started With Investment Banking</b><b> 5</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 1: Introducing Investment Banking</b> <b>7</b></p> <p>What Investment Banking Is 8</p> <p>The role investment banking plays 8</p> <p>How investment banking differs from traditional banking 10</p> <p>The services investment banks provide 11</p> <p>How investment banks are organized 12</p> <p>The current lay of the investment banking land 14</p> <p>Types of investment banking operations 15</p> <p>How investment banks get paid 15</p> <p>How Investment Banking Is Done 17</p> <p>Finding the financial statements 18</p> <p>Understanding the importance of financial statements and ratios 18</p> <p>Zeroing in on past transactions 18</p> <p>Seeing the value of fixed income 19</p> <p>Turning Into an Investment Banking Pro 19</p> <p>Putting the discounted cash flow analysis to work 19</p> <p>Seeing how leverage becomes a force in investment banking 20</p> <p>Pinpointing buyout targets 20</p> <p>Putting Investment Banking to Work 21</p> <p>Staying in compliance with the rules 21</p> <p>Looking beyond the published financial statements 21</p> <p>Making adjustments to financial statements for comparability 22</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: The Purpose of Investment Banking: What Investment Bankers Do</b> <b>23</b></p> <p>Putting the For-Sale Sign on Corporate America 24</p> <p>Mergers and acquisitions 25</p> <p>Leveraged buyouts 27</p> <p>Private business sales 29</p> <p>Initial public offerings 32</p> <p>Helping Investors Decide Whether to Buy or Sell 36</p> <p>The importance of research 36</p> <p>What do the analysts do? 37</p> <p>Digging Into the Role of the Trading Desk 38</p> <p>Why investment banks are into trading 39</p> <p>How investment banks turn pennies into billions 40</p> <p>The type of analysis used in trading operations 40</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: How Investment Bankers Sell Companies</b> <b>43</b></p> <p>Getting Companies Ready for Sale on Public Markets 44</p> <p>Meeting the requirements to make an IPO happen 45</p> <p>Writing the prospectus 47</p> <p>Supporting the IPO: Making success last 51</p> <p>Seeing What Sell-Side Analysts Do 53</p> <p>The goals of the sell-side analyst 54</p> <p>What investors look to sell-side analysts for 55</p> <p>Spreading the word: Disseminating sell-side research 55</p> <p>Examining a Sample Research Report 57</p> <p>What to look for in the document 57</p> <p>The main sections of a research report 58</p> <p>Ways to look beyond the “buy” or “sell” 59</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: How Investment Banking Is Used in Mergers and Acquisitions</b> <b>61</b></p> <p>Come Here Often? The Basics of Mergers and Acquisitions 62</p> <p>Kinds of mergers 62</p> <p>Why companies merge instead of simply growing organically 63</p> <p>Firms that make attractive acquisition targets 66</p> <p>How companies identify firms to merge with 67</p> <p>The nature of the merger: Friendly or hostile? 68</p> <p>Tools Used to Analyze the M&A Deal 70</p> <p>The role of the buy-side M&A advisor 70</p> <p>The role of the sell-side M&A advisor 75</p> <p>Why Many M&A Deals Go Wrong 76</p> <p>Misplaced incentives 76</p> <p>Faulty analysis 77</p> <p>Overstated synergies 78</p> <p>Culture wars 78</p> <p>The winner’s curse: Overpaying 78</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: How Investment Banking Is Used in Leveraged Buyouts</b> <b>81</b></p> <p>In This Corner: Introducing the Players 82</p> <p>Investment banks 83</p> <p>Big institutions 84</p> <p>Management 85</p> <p>Stock and bond investors 86</p> <p>Aiming for the Right Targets in a Leveraged Buyout 87</p> <p>Identifying companies that can work in a leveraged buyout 88</p> <p>Appreciating the power of cash flow 89</p> <p>Coming to terms with the return analysis: Internal rate of return 90</p> <p>Finding the Exit 91</p> <p>Setting a target for exit in time 92</p> <p>Considering how the exit will happen 92</p> <p><b>Part 2: Digging In: Performing Investment Banking</b> <b>95</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Finding the Data: Documents and Reports</b> <b>97</b></p> <p>Finding What You Need on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Website 98</p> <p>What types of information you can find 98</p> <p>The key types of documents 99</p> <p>How to use EDGAR to pinpoint information 100</p> <p>Getting Data in a Format You Can Work With 105</p> <p>Assembling the tools you need 105</p> <p>Importing financial information into Excel 107</p> <p>Getting in tune with interactive data 109</p> <p>Paying Attention to the Non-Financial Information 110</p> <p>Monitoring news streams for investment banking ideas 110</p> <p>Quickly processing information with aggregators 112</p> <p>Doing research on the key players in a deal 114</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Making Sense of Financial Statements</b> <b>115</b></p> <p>Income Statements 116</p> <p>Locating the areas of interest to investment bankers 118</p> <p>Tweaking the statement with different assumptions 119</p> <p>Finding investment banking opportunities 120</p> <p>Balance Sheets 121</p> <p>Finding your way around the key parts 122</p> <p>Understanding a company’s financial strength 124</p> <p>Locating pitfalls and opportunities 126</p> <p>Statement of Cash Flows 127</p> <p>Seeing why the cash flow statement is so important in deal making 127</p> <p>Understanding the key parts of the document 127</p> <p>Calculating free cash flow 130</p> <p>Proxy Statements 131</p> <p>Learning about the key players in a deal 131</p> <p>Identifying the management team’s incentives 132</p> <p>Analyzing management pay packages 133</p> <p><b>Chapter 8: Perfecting the Financial Ratios for Investment Banking</b> <b>135</b></p> <p>Valuation Multiples: Assessing How Much the Company Is Worth 136</p> <p>Investors’ favorite valuation tool: P/E ratio 137</p> <p>Going old school with price-to-book 137</p> <p>Putting a price on profitability 138</p> <p>Liquidity Multiples: Checking Companies’ Staying Power 140</p> <p>Deciphering debt to equity 141</p> <p>Getting up to speed with the quick ratio 142</p> <p>Interpreting interest coverage 142</p> <p>Profitability Ratios: Seeing How a Company’s Bottom Line Measures Up 143</p> <p>Why gross margin isn’t so gross after all 144</p> <p>Income from continuing operations: Looking at profit with a keen eye 144</p> <p>Keying into profits with net margin 145</p> <p>Efficiency Ratios: Knowing How Well the Company Is Using Investors’ Money 146</p> <p>Finding out about return on assets 147</p> <p>Digging into return on capital 148</p> <p>Uncovering company secrets with return on equity 149</p> <p>Calculating a company’s growth rate 150</p> <p><b>Chapter 9: Sizing Up the Industry</b> <b>153</b></p> <p>Performing an Industry Analysis 154</p> <p>Understanding why industry analysis is important 154</p> <p>Creating a comparison universe 155</p> <p>Adjusting the industry comparison universe 158</p> <p>Unearthing Company Trends and Common sizing the Financial Statements 159</p> <p>Comparing growth rates 160</p> <p>Comparing leverage 163</p> <p>Comparing various profit margins 165</p> <p>How a Company Stacks Up: Comparing the Key Ratios 166</p> <p>Sizing up valuation 167</p> <p>Comparing total debt-to-equity 169</p> <p>Sizing up companies on their efficiency 170</p> <p>Industry ratios 170</p> <p><b>Chapter 10: Understanding Stocks and Focusing on Past Transactions</b> <b>171</b></p> <p>Introducing Stock 172</p> <p>Characteristics of stock 173</p> <p>Types of stock 174</p> <p>Understanding stock pricing 175</p> <p>Finding Past Transactions 176</p> <p>Tracking the stock market 177</p> <p>Studying private deals 177</p> <p>Looking at pre-IPO marketplaces 179</p> <p>Examining buyouts 179</p> <p>Analyzing Past Transactions 180</p> <p>Knowing what the market will bear 180</p> <p>Knowing when the market is distorted 180</p> <p>Tabulating key ratios for past deals 182</p> <p>Understanding the pitfalls 184</p> <p><b>Chapter 11: Applying Investment Banking to Fixed Income</b> <b>185</b></p> <p>Introducing Bonds 186</p> <p>Identifying the Various Types of Bonds 188</p> <p>Convertible bonds 188</p> <p>Callable bonds 189</p> <p>Puttable bonds 189</p> <p>Floating-rate bonds 189</p> <p>Zero-coupon bonds 190</p> <p>Knowing Their Place: The Position of Bondholders 190</p> <p>Understanding Bond Pricing 192</p> <p>Introducing the concept of present value 192</p> <p>Relating yield to maturity and price 195</p> <p>Playing the spread: How different factors affect bond prices 196</p> <p>Considering bond sensitivity to changes in interest rates 197</p> <p>Tracking the Bond Market 200</p> <p>Debt or Equity: How a Company Chooses 202</p> <p><b>Part 3: Taking Investment Banking to the Next Level</b> <b>205</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 12: Doing a Discounted Free Cash Flow Analysis</b> <b>207</b></p> <p>Gearing Up for Discounted Free Cash Flow 208</p> <p>Computing free cash flow 210</p> <p>Forecasting free cash flow 211</p> <p>Calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital 212</p> <p>Understanding why the weighted average cost of capital is so important 213</p> <p>Measuring the cost of debt and equity 214</p> <p>Understanding the capital asset pricing model 217</p> <p>Going for Terminal Value 220</p> <p>Knowing the perpetuity growth formula 220</p> <p>Applying the constant growth formula 221</p> <p>Applying the two-stage growth model 222</p> <p>Stress-testing the results 223</p> <p>Valuing a Share of Stock 224</p> <p><b>Chapter 13: Structuring a Leveraged Buyout</b><b> 227</b></p> <p>Seeing How Leveraged Buyouts Are Structured 228</p> <p>The types of financing 228</p> <p>Understanding seniority and maturity 235</p> <p>Building a Leveraged Buyout Model 236</p> <p>Creating a pro forma model 236</p> <p>Deciding on methods of financing 238</p> <p>Seeing how the results work out 239</p> <p>The importance of taxes in a leveraged buyout 240</p> <p>What can go right and what can go wrong 240</p> <p><b>Chapter 14: Determining the Strength of a Company’s Return on Equity</b> <b>243</b></p> <p>Understanding the Importance of Return on Equity 244</p> <p>What return on equity shows 245</p> <p>Pros and cons of return on equity versus other profitability measures 247</p> <p>How return on equity can help guide an investment banking deal 249</p> <p>Using a DuPont Analysis 250</p> <p>The three-factor DuPont method 251</p> <p>The five-factor DuPont method 253</p> <p>Interpreting the Results 255</p> <p>Cola wars 255</p> <p>What the numbers mean 256</p> <p>Looking past the numbers for insight 256</p> <p>Telling companies how to react to the numbers 257</p> <p><b>Part 4: Applying Investment Banking</b> <b>259</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 15: Knowing the Rules</b> <b>261</b></p> <p>The History of Regulation of Investment Banking 262</p> <p>The goals of investment banking regulation 262</p> <p>Why the rules of today are the result of days past 262</p> <p>How regulations have shaped the investment banking industry 263</p> <p>The Ins and Outs of Modern Investment Banking Rules 264</p> <p>The types of rules imposed on investment banking 264</p> <p>How investment banking rules changed after the financial crisis 267</p> <p>The Rules on Analysts 270</p> <p>Why rules were needed 270</p> <p>The not-so-delicate balancing act analysts play 271</p> <p>What disclosure and compliance are required 272</p> <p>Why Simply Making Rules Isn’t Enough 274</p> <p><b>Chapter 16: How Some Companies Lie, Cheat, and Steal Their Way to the Top</b> <b>277</b></p> <p>Did You Really Sell That? When Companies Aggressively Report Revenue 278</p> <p>Don’t let the sun go down on me 279</p> <p>The truth? 280</p> <p>Lucy, You Got Some ’Splainin’ to Do: When Companies Understate Their Expenses 282</p> <p>What a waste 282</p> <p>Crazy like a fox 283</p> <p>Missed It by That Much: When Companies Overstate Their Financial Position 284</p> <p>Those pesky pensions: The epidemic of firms understating pension liabilities 284</p> <p>We are the world 288</p> <p>Keeping Investors Off-Balance 289</p> <p>Enron’s special purpose 290</p> <p>A mountain of a scandal 292</p> <p>Swap meet 293</p> <p>What Should an Investment Banker Do? 295</p> <p><b>Chapter 17: Understanding Alternative Investments and Asset Management</b> <b>297</b></p> <p>Knowing Your Alternatives 298</p> <p>Hedge funds 298</p> <p>Venture capital 301</p> <p>Commodities 302</p> <p>Real estate 303</p> <p>Currencies and cryptocurrencies 305</p> <p>Digging Into Asset Management 306</p> <p>Attracting investors to asset management 306</p> <p>Creating asset management tools 307</p> <p>Managing Potential Conflicts with Clients 309</p> <p>How asset management can cause conflicts 310</p> <p>How to eliminate and manage conflicts 312</p> <p><b>Chapter 18: Trying Your Hand at Investment Banking with a Case Study</b> <b>315</b></p> <p>Setting the Scene 316</p> <p>The acquirer 316</p> <p>The target 317</p> <p>Considering the Options 317</p> <p>Identifying the options 318</p> <p>Looking at financing 318</p> <p>Creating the Analysis 319</p> <p>An analysis of the financial statements 320</p> <p>Structuring a Deal 322</p> <p>Form of acquisition 323</p> <p>Creating pro forma statements 324</p> <p>Success or Failure 326</p> <p><b>Part 5: The Part of Tens</b> <b>327</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 19: Ten of the Biggest Debacles in Investment Banking History</b><b> 329</b></p> <p>The Dot-Com Boom and Bust 330</p> <p>Tainted Research Scandals 331</p> <p>Enron and the Accounting Scams 332</p> <p>The Mortgage Debacle and Collapse of Lehman 333</p> <p>The Flash Crash 333</p> <p>The London Whale at JPMorgan Chase and Barings Bank 334</p> <p>Long-Term Capital Management 334</p> <p>Bankruptcy in Jefferson County, Alabama 335</p> <p>IPO Allocations with CSFB 336</p> <p>Bad Mergers and Acquisitions Like AOL Time Warner 337</p> <p><b>Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Improve a Discounted Cash Flow Analysis</b> <b>339</b></p> <p>Financial Analysis Isn’t Physics 339</p> <p>Show Your Sensitive Side 340</p> <p>Monte Carlo Isn’t Just for High Rollers 341</p> <p>What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong 342</p> <p>It’s Tough to Make Predictions, Especially about the Future 342</p> <p>The Investor of Today Doesn’t Profit from Yesterday’s Growth 343</p> <p>Garbage In, Garbage Out 344</p> <p>Rates Are Falling — It’s a Better Deal! 345</p> <p>Read Your Putt from Several Angles 346</p> <p>The Weighting is the Hardest Part 346</p> <p><b>Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) of the Best Online Resources for Investment Bankers</b> <b>349</b></p> <p>Bloomberg 350</p> <p>Reuters 350</p> <p>Standard & Poor’s 350</p> <p>Renaissance Capital and IPOScoop.com 351</p> <p>The Securities and Exchange Commission 351</p> <p>Moody’s 351</p> <p>MarketSmith 352</p> <p>Index Fund Advisors 352</p> <p>Morningstar 352</p> <p>Bureau of Labor Statistics 353</p> <p>Department of Commerce 353</p> <p>Federal Reserve 354</p> <p>Trefis 354</p> <p>Appendix: Where Investment Banking Came From 355</p> Index 361
<p><b>Matt Krantz</b> is the personal finance and management editor at Investor's Business Daily. Matt's recent books include <i>Online Investing For Dummies</i> and <i>Fundamental Analysis For Dummies</i>.</p> <p><b>Robert R. Johnson,</b> PhD, CFA, CAIA, is a Professor of Finance at Creighton University, where he teaches in the Master of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management Program.</p>
<ul> <li>Get started in investment banking</li> <li>Ace your investment bank course</li> <li>Navigate bull and bear markets</li> </ul> <p><b>Excel in the world of investment banking</b> <p>One of the most lucrative fields in business, investment banking frequently perplexes even banking professionals working within its complex laws. <i>Investment Banking For Dummies</i> remedies common misconceptions with a straightforward assessment of banking fundamentals. This book tracks to typical university courses on the subject and helps students and professionals understand the fundamentals of investment banking. With new and updated content, this edition addresses the major financial changes that have occurred in recent years. <p><b>Inside...</b> <ul> <li>Key investment banking operations</li> <li>Strategies for risk management</li> <li>Advice on cryptocurrencies</li> <li>Updated IPO coverage</li> <li>Discounted cash flow analysis</li> <li>Mergers and acquisitions</li> <li>Structuring a leveraged buyout</li> <li>Resources for investment bankers</li> </ul>

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