03 February 2014

Top Five Articles from January: Networking, Open-Access Modeling, and Central Banks

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1. Six Networking Lessons to Remember

Pulling from his personal experience, Charlie Henneman, CFA, shares six important networking lessons to keep in mind for your career advancement.

2. Making Sophisticated Financial Models Available to All: Thinknum

Thinknum is an open architecture, distributed computing site for aggregating financial data and financial models. Here is an interview with their founders, Justin Zhen and Gregory Ugwi.

3. Central Banks and Systemic Risk (Online Forum)

A team of distinguished panelists — Paul Brodsky, James Grant, David M. Jones, William Poole, and Jim Rickards — debated whether central banks mitigate or contribute to systemic risk.

4. Alternative Thinking vs. Alternative Assets

Peter Chiappinelli, CFA, CAIA, a member of GMO’s asset allocation team, lays out the arguments and counterarguments for alternative investments.

5. Book Review: The Art of Value Investing

This book provides a valuable contribution to the industry literature on value investing. It is well written, well organized, and quite enjoyable. It should be read by all investors who are seriously interested in enhancing their understanding of this important field.

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About the Author(s)

Jennifer Curry

Jennifer Curry formerly served as managing editor of the Enterprising Investor. Previously, she was the social media manager at the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). Prior to her work at NYSSA, Curry worked as the senior project editor for a nonfiction imprint at Barnes & Noble Publishing and as an assistant editor at the H.W. Wilson Company. She is the editor of several volumes in the Reference Shelf series, and her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, IndustryWeek, Barnes & Noble Review, and other publications. Curry holds a BS in journalism and a BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas, and an MA in anthropology from Hunter College, City University of New York.