Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts PoorSatisfactoryGoodVery GoodExcellent Average: 3.3 (10 ratings) Log in to rate this book. Source: McGraw-HillJames J. Valentine, CFA 403 pages Read Summary James J. Valentine, CFA provides a professional guide for equity analysts, focusing on best practices for identifying and monitoring critical factors, creating financial forecasts, deriving price targets, making recommendations, and communicating ideas. Chapter 20, "Overcome Challenges to Creating Discerning Stock Calls" has been provided to CFA Institute as a sample. The continuing education recommendation of 13 hours applies to the whole book, which is available for purchase online. This author is featured in the January/February 2011 edition of CFA Magazine. Topics Equity Investments : Fundamental Analysis (Sector, Industry, Company) and the Valuation of Individual Equity Securities Credits · About the CE Program What are credits? Who knows. 13 CE (including 0 SER) Record credits Credits recorded Members, log in to record your credits. Manage CE Credits People who viewed this page also viewed: Mind Over Money: Can Markets Be Rational When Humans Aren't? This video from PBS explores the idea of rational markets in an irrational world. More Russell Investments 2010 Global Survey on Alternative Investing Learn about institutional investor allocation trends to alternative investments and what the expectations are for the future in this survey ... More After the Fall In this article, the authors describe their study of the long-term effects of financial crises on GDP growth and employment, concluding ... More Loading ...