December 2015
Beginner
384 pages
11h 32m
English
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About the Author
Aaron Brown is nearing his 35th anniversary on Wall Street. He has worked as a portfolio manager, trader, head of mortgage securities and risk manager for Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Rabobank and JP Morgan; and he has served a stint as a finance professor as well. Currently he is managing director and chief risk officer at AQR Capital Management, a $140 billion hedge fund headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.
He is the author of Red-Blooded Risk (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), The Poker Face of Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., named one of the ten best business books of the year by Business Week) and A World of Chance (Cambridge University Press with Reuven and Gabrielle Brenner).
The Global Association of Risk Professionals selected him as its 2011 Risk Manager of the Year. The readers of Wilmott magazine voted him Financial Educator of the Year, his website won the Forbes Best of the Web for Theory and Practice of Investing, and the editors of Algorithm magazine selected his Alphabet Soup as the top shareware algorithm pick. He was profiled in Espen Haug’s Derivatives Models on Models (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), and by Adam Leitzes and Joshua Solan in Bulls, Bears, and Brains (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
He has a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. He lives on the Upper West Side of New York City with his wife Deborah and has two wonderful children pursuing their own dreams.
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