Amit KumarShort Selling
Finding Uncommon Short Ideas
Amit Kumar is a senior analyst at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He has spent nine years in equity investments and, before that, another nine years in senior roles in the technology industry. He is also an adjunct professor of finance at Rutgers Business School.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Framework to Finding Short Ideas
1. Due Diligence in Short Selling
2. Leveraged Businesses: The Upside and Downside
3. Structural Issues in Industries
4. Recipes for Cooked Books: Accounting Misstatements and Shenanigans
5. The World Is Going to End
Part II: How Successful Investors and Analysts Think
6. Value Investing
7. Activist Investing
8. Papa Bear: Coattailing Marquee Investors or Betting Against Them?
9. Off Wall Street: Two Decades of Successful Shorting
Part III: Risks and Mechanics of Short Selling
10. When to Hold, When to Fold
11. The Mechanics of Short Selling
Glossary
Notes
Index