Monday, 28 August 2017

The Future of Finance: How Private Equity and Venture Capital Will Shape the Global Economy

This book attracted me when I notice the author ran the Asian Venture Capital Journal for fifteen years in Hongkong. With such a background, the author should be able to provide us in-depth coverage with the help from dozens of industry experts.

At the end... yes, the author did it. Since he had access to all of the top players in financial world, we have a lot of case studies and details discussion throughout the whole book. The author is very brave in this case. First of all, he needs to dig deep into the entire information gathered before expose it out to the public. Secondly, the author gathered the said info and provides his own forecast and prediction towards the future. Since this book was written many years ago (the subprime era), certain things may not be applicable to the current environment. However, it is certainly not out-dated. That tells the whole story.

Rating wise, I am going to rate this book at 7/10. This is actually an excellent book to read when it was published. But, since we are half way towards the end of 2017, the forecasting by the author may sounds not so interesting. After all, we more or less found the answer in the real world. Having said that, I have no hesitation to recommend this book. This is a well written book with deep insight on the world of finance. 

Monday, 7 August 2017

让你挣大钱:操盘手自述

据说,这本书的作者是网上一名蛮出名的外汇分析师。因此,我对这本书还颇有期待的。

和上一本“菲波纳奇”相比,这一本书还真的有过之而无不及(哈哈!)。。。怎么说呢?这本书至少没那么沉闷。作者写的也头头是道。但是,启发性和上一本相比,简直就是双胞胎的版本,呵呵。。。

书里的方法理论上是行得通。但是,这一类法则在很多书里都呈现过。虽然,作者很用心和不吝啬的分享了他的操盘历程,但是,惊喜点还真的很欠缺。。。

十分满分,这一回给个两分。至少,我觉得这一本好过上一本。但是,整体来说,期望越大,还真的失望越大。。。