Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to many who have contributed to Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity. My wife Janet and my children (Paul, Lauren, Audrey, Julia, and Peter) have been very patient and supportive during the more than two-year process of researching and writing this book. When I decided to become an academic, they assumed that my investment banker workweek would drop from 70 + hours to less than half that amount. This has not been the case, as I learned that academics work long hours too, and the book added many hours to my schedule. My oldest son, Paul, is a banker, derivatives structurer, and former convertibles trader, and I relied on and appreciated his wisdom in thinking through the organization of the book ...