The Shadow Banker's Secrets: Investment Banking for Alternatives

Investment banks, private equity and hedge funds are all examples of shadow banks--non-depository financial institutions that provide services like traditional commercial banks without being held to normal banking regulations. Shadow banks capture the highest level of financial expertise and sophistication and create debt and equity capital across the global financial system, all while structuring investments that outperform anything available to the public--create almost infinite capital at will.

Over the past half century, shadow bank's esoteric expertise has fueled the explosive growth of the financial services industry that has corrupted the principles of free markets through regulatory capture and the Federal Reserve itself. Benjamin D. Summers, the managing director of Adagio Group, wrote The Shadow Banker's Secrets to help level the playing field between big banking interests and the public. Within each chapter, Summers shares his extensive knowledge of quantitative analysis, risk engineering, capital formation, compliance, and an extraordinarily powerful yet underutilized tool available to the public: investment clubs.

The Shadow Banker's Secrets brings readers the very same expertise Benjamin D. Summers employs for Adagio's clients, offering essential information for anyone to beat the markets and protect themselves from market crises. Further, he even shows how to start and quickly scale an asset management business to nine figures and beyond by creating highly valuable capital out of thin air as one's own shadow bank. Summers explains the most esoteric skills of the banking industry so that anyone can beat the system at its own game.