Soundview Executive Book Summaries to Host Interactive Webinar with Guy Fraser-Sampson

PRLog (Press Release) - May 15, 2012 - Have you recently been thrust into a position of financial responsibility without the proper tools? Were you promoted to a new position and find yourself in financial meetings but feeling excluded from the debate? Are you a new entrepreneur, having to deal with budgets and bank arrangements for the first time?

If any of these scenarios sound familiar, then you’ll want to join our Soundview Live webinar, No Fear Finance with Guy Fraser-Sampson. He will take you through the key business financial issues from stocks and bonds, to liquidity and volatility, and on to income statements and working capital. And he will deal with each topic in a clear and easily understandable manner.

Guy Fraser-Sampson originally qualified as a lawyer and became an equity partner in a City of London law firm at the age of 26, having already been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 1986 he left the law and has since gained over twenty-five years experience in the investment arena, particularly in the  fields of private equity funds, investment strategy and asset allocation.

Since 2007, he has been a member of the teaching staff at Cass Business School , where he teaches MBA modules in both London and Dubai on Private Equity and Investment Strategy (which includes full coverage of all "alternative" assets such as hedge funds, real estate, energy, commodities, currency, infrastructure, etc). He also supervises various research projects at Cass.

In addition to various professional qualifications, Guy has an LLB with Honours from King's College London and an MBA majoring in finance from Warwick Business School. He teaches at Cass Business School in the City of London, where he is a Senior Fellow,  is a visiting Professor at the National Academy of Economics in Moscow, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pensions.

Attendees will learn about:
•   Basic financial concepts such as the time value of money, and financial instruments including stocks, bonds and derivatives.
•   The main investment concepts like liquidity, volatility, active versus passive investing and different return measurements.
•   Key accounting matters like balance sheet and income statement analysis, working capital and solvency.
•   Company life cycle events including M&A, capital raising, insolvency.

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