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| Prof. António Marques Mendes |
My Alumni Blog |
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 Born on May 1952 |
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Senior executive with
25+ years of experience in academia, banking, politics and consulting | ||||
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Nationality: Portuguese | ||||
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Professor of International
Finance at the School of Economics -
University of Coimbra,
Portugal | ||||
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Founder of
Marques Mendes & Associados
Ltd and SADIF-Investment
Analytics SA | ||||
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1992-1998 – Senior
Banker and Head of Unit at the EBRD Banking Department,
London | ||||
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1985-1987 – Member of the
European
and Portuguese
Parliaments | ||||
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1985 - PhD in
Economics, University of Kent at
Canterbury, UK | ||||
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1976 - Bsc in Economics from ISEG, Technical
University, Lisbon |
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Catarina - Arminda - Ana Isabel - Miguel | ||
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Current Academic Interests |
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Business and Consulting Interests | ||
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Research |
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 Stock
market investing |
MM&A | |||
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The role of Multilateral Development Banks |
SADIF | |||
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The lives of W. S. Jevons and David Durand |
The SADIF Incubation
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Fallacies in economic theory |
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Other Interests | ||||
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Lectures and Seminars at FEUC, APEU, SADIF Academy and on demand |
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Introduction to
International Finance,
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Politics: Liberalism
for the XXI Century | |||
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International
Financial Management,
Postgraduate 2008-09 |
Philosophy: cynicism and ethics | |||
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Topics in Corporate Finance,
Postgraduate 2008-09 |
Antique book collector: Economics and
Finance | |||
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Introduction to
Investment Banking, undergraduate course |
Popular Science: understanding
time | |||
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Introduction to
Financial Investments, Executive MBA |
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Como seleccionar
as melhores empresas para investir na Bolsa, Executive seminar APEU.
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Supervision of Thesis and Dissertations |
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| Requests for supervision are welcome from students with top grades from any University. However, except under exceptional circumstances, for the time being I can only accept a small number of research students who are interested on research in the following topics: |
Useful Spreadsheets
and Calculators | |||
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Free Data Sources | ||||
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What is a good business? |
International Finance Resources | |||
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Drip investing strategies |
Quiz Pages | |||
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Market timing |
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Global investing |
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Recently Published or Forthcoming |
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Six Steps for Successful Investing |
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quest to justify a long lasting role for multilateral development
banks (with Mihaela Meica) |
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For a full list of my publications click here |
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Recently read and highly recommended |
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| If you ever wondered why enlightenment is fading "How
mumbo-jumbo conquered the world" by Francis Wheen, is a must
read. | |
| For investors hoping for the so-called Greenspan put, Alan
Greenspan memoirs "The
Age of Turbulence", (published in Portuguese by Editorial Presença) is
an interesting tale on financial crisis, optimism and central bankers
naivety. |
| For a synopsis of what great investors had to say about
investing "The
investor's anthology" by Charles D. Ellis is a good
start. |
| To understand the danger of paranoid dictators and sleeping
moles
"MAO the unkown story" by Jung Chang offers numerous
hints. |
| To know why 200 hundred years after the enlightenment
some people are still killing in the name of religion Martin Gilbert's book
"Letters to Auntie Fori" published in Portuguese by Alêtheia Editores
com o título "Os 5000 anos de história e fé do povo Judeu" , gives a unique
insight. | |
| Richard Dawkins's "The
God Delusion", is probably the most compreheensive and best written case
for atheism. Still, it fails to address why god, like money and weapons were
created in most civilizations no matter how primitive. | |
| To realize the relative importance of fanaticism and the
supremacy of weapons for conquering empires John Keegan's "A
History of Warfare" (published in Portuguese by Tinta-da-China),
provides an interesting read. | |
| On the history of Portugal and Brazil the "Empire
adrif - The Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821" by Patrick
Wilcken is a great book (published also in Poruguese by Civilização Editora) |