Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-04-20
Dewey code: 332.6457
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.49
Review Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives / Financial Times/ Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2008-07-03
Dewey code: 339.53
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.89
Review The Crunch: The Scandal of Northern Rock and the Escalating Credit Crisis / Random House Business Books:
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 381.101
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.71
Review When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Publication date: 2007-01-30
Dewey code: 651
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.41
Review Brilliant Presentations: What the Best Presenters Know, Say and Do / Prentice Hall:
Edition: 2nd Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 332.63202854678
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.98
Review The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares / Harriman House Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-06-29
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.67
Review The Financial Spread Betting Handbook: A Guide to Making Money Trading Spread Bets / Harriman House Publishing:
Edition: Revised and Updates Edition
Publication date: 2002-04-09
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £11.50
Price: £5.65
Review The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers, Revised Edition / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 338.04092
RRP: £2.99
Price: £0.01
Review Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life (Quick Reads) / Virgin Books:
Edition: Rev Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-23
Dewey code: 332.678
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.45
Review The Intelligent Investor / HarperCollins:
Authors
- W. Chan Kim
- Renée Mauborgne
Dewey code: 658.802
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.74
Review Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant / Harvard Business School Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-01-02
Dewey code: 332
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.93
Review When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management / Fourth Estate:On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned by the Fed to discuss the highly unusual prospect of rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-trading firm of Long-Term Capital Management. Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed is the gripping story behind the Fed's unprecedented move, the incredible heights reached by LTCM, and its eventual dramatic demise. Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist, uncovers and examines the personalities, academic expertise, professional relationships, and layers of numbers behind LTCM's roller-coaster ride with the precision and knowledge of a skilled surgeon. The fund's enigmatic founder, John Meriwether, spent almost 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he formed its renowned Arbitrage Group by hiring academia's top financial economists. Though Meriwether left Salomon under a cloud of the SEC's wrath, he leapt into his next venture with ease, and enticed most of his former Salomon hires-and eventually even David Mullins, the former vice-chairman of the US Federal Reserve-to join him in starting a hedge fund that would beat all hedge funds. LTCM began trading in February 1994, after completing a road show that, despite the Ph. D. -touting partners' lack of social skills and their disdainful condescension of potential investors who couldn't rise to their intellectual level, netted a whopping 1. 25 billion dollars. [+]The fund would seek to earn a tiny spread on thousands of trades, "as if it were vacuuming nickels that others couldn't see," in the words of one of its Nobel laureate partners, Myron Scholes. And nickels it found. In its first two years, LTCM earned 1. 6 billion dollars, profits that exceeded forty percent even after the partners' hefty cuts. By the spring of 1996 it was holding $140 billion in assets. But the end was soon in sight, and Lowenstein's detailed account of each successively worse month of 1998, culminating in a disastrous August and the partners' subsequent panicked moves, is riveting. The arbitrageur's world is a complicated one, and it might have served Lowenstein well to slow down at the start and explain in greater detail the complex terms of the more exotic species of investment flora that cram the book's pages. However, much of the intrigue of the Long-Term story lies in its dizzying pace (not to mention the dizzying amounts of money won and lost in the fund's short lifespan), and Lowenstein's smooth, conversational, but equally urgent tone carries it along well. The book is a compelling read for those who've always wondered what lay behind the Fed's controversial involvement with the LTCM hedge-fund debacle. -S. Ketchum.
Authors
- Evan Davis
- Duncan Bannatyne
- Deborah Meaden
- Peter Jones
- James Caan
- Theo Paphitis
- Richard Farleigh
Dewey code: 650.1
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.86
Review "Dragons' Den": Success, from Pitch to Profit / Collins:
Publication date: 2005-03-03
Dewey code: 658.4092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.20
Review How to Lead: What You Actually Need to Do to Manage, Lead and Succeed / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2007-05-24
Dewey code: 338.90091724
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.44
Review The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It / OUP USA:
Publication date: 2004-11-29
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.00
Review Rules of Management: The Definitive Guide to Managerial Success / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 658.404
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.29
Review Brilliant Project Management: What the Best Project Managers Know, Say and Do / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2002-05-16
Dewey code: 332.654
RRP: £39.99
Price: £19.56
Review Come into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading (Wiley Trading) / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 332.6452
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.81
Review Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders / McGraw-Hill Professional:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-09-11
Dewey code: 153.852
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.54
Review Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People / Prentice Hall:
Edition: Rev Ed
Publication date: 2007-02
RRP: £14.95
Price: £7.76
Review All You Need to Know About the City (All You Need to Know Guides) / Longtail Publishing Limited:
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Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives, The Crunch: The Scandal of Northern Rock and the Escalating Credit Crisis, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, Brilliant Presentations: What the Best Presenters Know, Say and Do, The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Make Money Trading Shares, The Financial Spread Betting Handbook: A Guide to Making Money Trading Spread Bets, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers, Revised Edition, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life (Quick Reads), The Intelligent Investor, Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management, "Dragons' Den": Success, from Pitch to Profit, How to Lead: What You Actually Need to Do to Manage, Lead and Succeed, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Rules of Management: The Definitive Guide to Managerial Success, Brilliant Project Management: What the Best Project Managers Know, Say and Do, Come into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading (Wiley Trading), Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders, Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People, All You Need to Know About the City (All You Need to Know Guides) |
