Jeffrey Hooke, author of Security Analysis on Wall Street, will discuss how security analysis has changed over the past 12 years.  His book is going into its second printing and a portion of the book is required reading for the CFA exam.  When originally released in 1998, Barron’s called it “a welcome a successor to Graham and Dodd”.  New chapters in the book deal with changes in the methodology for selecting a discount rate, private equity myths, regulatory failure and the importance of factoring in booms and busts.

Jeffrey Hooke is Managing Director of Hooke Associates, LLC, a corporate finance consulting practice based in Bethesda, Maryland.  The firm provides advisory services regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and valuation.  Previously, he was a Director of Emerging Markets Partnership, a $5 billion private equity partnership specializing in the emerging markets; a principal investment officer of the World Bank Group; and an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim, respectively, two prominent securities firms based in New York.