A Demon of Our Own Design

出版者:Wiley

作者:Richard Bookstaber

页数:304

出版时间:2008-12-10

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780470393758

图书标签:风险管理investmenthedgederivatives经济学Finance

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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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这本书是作者在自己职业生涯的基础上写的。他先后就职于摩根斯坦利、所罗门、所罗门被收购后的花旗、Moore Capital等，直到最后自己出来开对冲基金并被摩根斯坦利收购。他职业生涯的前半部分主要是在做风险管理。在所罗门的经历让他和所罗门债券套利部门以及后来的长期资本都有...  

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总体行文晦涩，即使对美国金融历史从1980年到2010年比较熟悉的读者也很难阅读得很快。并不是因为作者的新的材料或者见解，更多是受制于作者的文字功底，阅读体验不是太好。 本书最大亮点在于第二章，描写了1987年股灾和portfolio insurance策略的可能联系。言之凿凿可能跟作...