Inside the Doomsday Machine Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd. Udgivelsesår: 2015 Sider: 270 Sprog: Engelsk
Cracking the Money Code Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. This is a market that's rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond. Blink, and you'll miss it. In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It's the story of what it's like to declare war on some of the ri
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward Includes material on the market crisis. This book presents models where the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved Forlag: Profile Books Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sider: 326 Sprog: Engelsk
Human existence is based upon risk. This text charts the adventures of a group of thinkers who embarked on a voyage of intellectual discovery, transforming primeval superstition into the powerful tools of risk control employed today.One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he dem
Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. This book gives an account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm - from Lehman Brothers CEO Dick the gorilla Fuld, to AIG's Joseph Cassano, dubbed 'The Man Who Crashed the World'. Forlag: Penguin Sider: 990 Sprog: Engelsk
*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart 'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad — often in the same sentence' Sunday Times 'The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: 'The Trading Game'. The prize: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than
Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of index funds, bringing to life the colourful characters behind their birth, growth and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. It is the untold story behind one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time Titel: Trillions : how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and endured Wall Street's scorn to launch the index fund revolution, democratizing investing and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in fees that would have otherwise lined fat cats' pockets. Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea th
Bagsideteksten beskriver, hvordan mennesker konstant må træffe valg og vurdere risiko. Investorer, virksomheder og andre aktører er afhængige af at kunne beregne sandsynligheder for succes og fiasko. Peter L. Bernstein fortæller i denne bog historien om de ideer og personer, der gjorde det muligt at gå fra tro på forsyn og skæbne til et fremsyn baseret på matematik og statistik. Han skildrer blandt andet tænkere som Pascal, Bernoulli, Bayes og Keynes og viser, hvordan deres teorier om sandsynlighed, risiko og usikkerhed har formet moderne finans, økonomi og beslutningsteori. Bogen forklarer også, hvorfor forståelse af risiko er central for at kunne navigere i markedsøkonomien. Type: Hardcover Dansk udgave af Peter L. Bernsteins fagbog om risikoens historie. Bogen gennemgår, hvordan mennesker gennem tiderne har forsøgt at forstå, måle og styre risiko – fra skæbnetro og krystalkugler til s
