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Pitch the Perfect Investment

Wednesday, Sept. 13, 5:15pm to 6:15pm
Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library, Rose Hill campus

Tuesday, Sept 26, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
McNally Auditorium, Gabelli School of Business, 140 W. 62nd St, Lincoln Center campus

Pitch the Perfect Investment combines investment analysis with persuasion and sales to teach you the “soft skill” so crucial to success in the financial markets. Written by the leading authorities in investment pitching, this book shows you how to develop and exploit the essential, career-advancing skill of pitching value-creating ideas to win over clients and investors.

Book lecture by authors

PAUL D. SONKIN is an analyst and portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds and previously spent 14 years at the helm of The Hummingbird Value Fund. For 16 years he was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and is coauthor of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond.

PAUL JOHNSON runs Nicusa Investment Advisors and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He is a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing Illuminated (by Howard Marks), co-author of The Gorilla Game, and a contributing author to Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas.