| Description |
1 online resource (x, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
How it All Began Part One One way ticket Chapter 1 From Zurich to disaster Analyse this Henry Blodgett The rules of compounding Gains and losses Who chooses equities, and why Chapter 2 Taking risks What s risk? Warren Buffet and the Dalai Lama IOU Company specific risk Luxuries and necessities Five destroyed brands Chapter 3 The leap of faith Risk and return Safety and danger Hero and villain -- Jerome Kerviel Buys and sells The sad case of Millwall Holdings Part Two Welcome to the jungle Chapter 4 Damn clients The trading floor Proprietary trading How an investment bank makes money It s raining middlemen Bernie Madoff Primary and secondary market Chapter 5 An equitable solution Shares and bonds contrasted Income, profit and loss Earnings per share Dividend yield Market capitalisation P/E ratio Growth stocks and value stocks The Google growth story Front, back and middle Chapter 6 Promises, promises What goes up must come down The time value of money Inflation, opportunity cost, borrower risk Discounting Insider trading Bonfire of the Vanities and Wall Street Control Chapter 7 Very interesting, Mr Bond Maturity and principals Bonds and shares compared Ratings measure risk, usually What you need to know about rating agencies Safety and Control From triple A to single, solitary D Chapter 8 Chinese walls come tumbling down Deal toys George Soros Income and profit Front running Private equity Every Mistake Imaginable Sting stung EBIT doh! Music and finance Behind the wall The burnt out agent |
| Summary |
This controversial first person account details the ins and outs of global finance. Andreas Loizou reveals the schemes and techniques they use to conjure up enormous sums of money, whilst explaining how international finance operates: from how financial products work and what they are, to what financiers and money players actually do. This is the ultimate insider s tale of how international finance really operates. This controversial first person account details the ins and outs of global finance. Over 20 years the author has enjoyed privileged access to many of the world s top players in money. In this book he reveals the schemes and techniques they use to conjure up enormous sums of money, whilst explaining how international finance operates: from how financial products work and what they are, to what financiers and money players actually do |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
International economic relations.
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Investments.
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Banks and banking.
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Money.
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Investments
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Banks and banking
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International economic relations
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Investments
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Money
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012002311 |
| ISBN |
9780273758549 |
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0273758543 |
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0273757970 |
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9780273757979 |
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