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• Archive: Praise for Finding Alpha"Eric Falkenstein is more than one of the smartest and funniest people in finance.
• He's been a banker, a key model builder at a major rating agency, and a hedge fund trader.
• In this tour de force, he outlines the successes and failures of financial theory applications in the real world from the perspective of an aggressive early adopter of the best ideas in finance.
• To this day, I think Eric's private firm default model is one of the best papers ever published in applied finance, and this wonderful book falls into the same category."—Donald R. van Deventer, PhD, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kamakura Corporation"People dismissed Columbus when he said the world was round.
• Thank goodness he persisted.