Traders, Guns and Money :Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives - Financial Times Series
Traders, Guns and Money :Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives - Financial Times Series
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Published:
16 January, 2020
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Description
Traders Guns and Money is a wickedly comic exposé of the culture, games and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world. And played out with other people’s money.
A sensational insider’s view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives, this revised edition explains the frighteningly central role that derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis.
This worldwide bestseller reveals the truth about derivatives: those financial tools memorably described by Warren Buffett as ‘financial weapons of mass destruction’. Traders, Guns and Money will introduce you to the players and the practices and reveals how the real money is made and lost.
The global financial crisis took almost everyone by surprise and even now new problems keep appearing and solutions continue to be elusive. In the original version of Traders, Guns and Money, Satyajit Das provided a highly prescient insight into the structure and risk of the world financial system exposing the problems that are becoming readily apparent. In a 2006 speech – The Coming Credit Crash – Das argued that: "an informed analysis … shows that risk is not better spread but more leveraged and (arguably) more concentrated…. This does not improve the overall stability and security of the financial system but exposes it to increased risk of a "crash".
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781292339139 |
| ISBN10 | 1292339136 |
| Number Of Pages | 440 |
| Item Weight | 460 g |
| Product Dimensions | 127 x 196 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pearson Education Limited |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 3rd edition |
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Author's Bio
Satyajit Das is an internationally respected expert in finance with over 30 years' experience. He has worked for the 'sell side' (Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch), the 'buy side' (as Treasurer of the TNT Group), and as a consultant advising banks, investors, corporations, and central banks worldwide. Das was selected as one of the 50 most influential financial thinkers in the world by Bloomberg in 2014.