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Demon of Our Own Design Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

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ISBN-10: 0470393750

ISBN-13: 9780470393758

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Bookstaber

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792

Richard Bookstaber runs an equity hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was the director of risk management at Ziff Brothers Investments and at Moore Capital Management, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. He served as the managing director in charge of firm-wide risk management at Salomon Brothers and was a member of Salomon's powerful Risk Management Committee. Mr. Bookstaber also spent ten years at Morgan Stanley in quantitative research and as a proprietary trader, concluding his tenure there as Morgan Stanley's first market risk manager. He is the author of three books and scores of articles on finance topics ranging from options theory to risk management. Bookstaber…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: The Paradox of Market Risk
The Demons of '87
A New Sheriff in Town
How Salomon Rolled the Dice and Lost
They Bought Salomon, Then They Killed It
Long-Term Capital Management Rides the Leverage Cycle to Hell
Colossus
Complexity, Tight Coupling, and Normal Accidents
The Brave New World of Hedge Funds
Cockroaches and Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Existential
Conclusion: Built to Crash?
Notes
Index