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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.64524
EAN: 9780471227274
ISBN: 0471227277
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 06, 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 11166
Studio: Wiley
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Inside markets, innovation, and risk
Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street–from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup–and a member of some of the world’s largest hedge funds, from Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think. The very things done to make markets safer, have, in fact, created a world that is far more dangerous. From the 1987 crash to Citigroup closing the Salomon Arb unit, from staggering losses at UBS to the demise of Long-Term Capital Management, Bookstaber gives readers a front row seat to the management decisions made by some of the most powerful financial figures in the world that led to catastrophe, and describes the impact of his own activities on markets and market crashes. Much of the innovation of the last 30 years has wreaked havoc on the markets and cost trillions of dollars. A Demon of Our Own Design tells the story of man’s attempt to manage market risk and what it has wrought. In the process of showing what we have done, Bookstaber shines a light on what the future holds for a world where capital and power have moved from Wall Street institutions to elite and highly leveraged hedge funds.
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Rating:  - A must-read
Bookstaber's "A Demon of our own Design" shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in what is going on in the financial markets today. His many years leading the risk management areas at top financial firms gave him a vantage point that he openly shares with his readers. His main topic is centered around understanding the volatility of an increasingly complex, tightly coupled global financial system as there is in place today.
I only wish I had read this book before the big market unwound ... Read More
Rating: - A good read in these troubled times we are at
I read this book back in December 07, the perfect timing for it would have been now, however.
A very simple conclusion from this book is that despite all the good intentions that the current bailout (TARP) might have, what we are doing is creating a new demon that will provoke a new crisis, with a different twist, anytime in the future.
Crisis are inevitable and we cannot go against financial innovations (like in the last 10 years with derivatives, CDS, MBOs, CDOs, etc.)
A better synchronicity ... Read More
Rating: - Want to understand the current financial crisis?
Bookstaber has written a cogent, understandable and witty guide to the structural and human underpinnings of the current financial crisis.While this book requires thoughtful reading, it does not assume that the reader is technically savvy about markets or the plethora of financial instruments that have come to have such a dramatic impact on U.S. and world economies.I unhesitatingly recommend this book to anyone wishing a deeper understanding of the problems that can and have been created by financial markets and ... Read More
Rating: - Thought-provoking reflection on Wall Street risk today
This book is part memoir, part reflection on risk, part tell-all, part recapitulation of recent financial crises and part polemic. If you fret that all these parts might blur author Richard Bookstaber's objectives and message, you are right, but, if you have the patience, keep reading. Enjoy the somewhat diffuse anecdotes and observations in the first few chapters until you reach the author's straightforward presentation of his case that the U.S. financial system is at risk from complexity and tight coupling. The book ... Read More
Rating:  - GLB
I have had great difficulty reading this book firstly as I am not a quant nerd. Secondly, the author deems fit to draw comparisons with hedge funds and a host of unrelated topics eg. Chernobyl, Two Mile Island and the military and the Post Office (for heaven's sake)! The less said about the ill fated shuttles the better!! Third, the book is poorly written and/or badly edited as there are many duplications throughout the text an example of which is LTCM which crops up in every other chapter. Nevertheless, I also read the ... Read More
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