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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | In an approachable, non-technical manner, Risk Takers brings eight modern financial derivatives situations to life, fully exploring the context of each event and evaluating the outcomes. Primer on Derivatives; Employee Stock Options: What Every MBA Student Should Know; Roche Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants; Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows; Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble versus Bankers Trust; Orange County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History; Barings Bank PLC: Leeson’s Lessons; Long Term Capital Mismanagement: “JM & The Arb Boys”; Amaranth Advisors LLC: Using Natural Gas Futures to Bet on the Weather. For all readers interested in financial derivatives, options, futures, and risk management. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | John Marthinsen | | Paperback: | 352 pages | | Publisher: | Addison Wesley | | Publication Date: | February 17, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0321542568 | | Product Length: | 0.91 inches | | Product Width: | 0.63 inches | | Product Height: | 0.05 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.98 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.2 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Concise but sufficiently detailed. A good textbook for business undergrads Jan 16, 2007
By ServantofGod
Because there is no table of content here, I would like to take the priviledge to type one for you.
Ch 1 Employee stock options: what every MBA should know
Ch 2 Roche Holding: the company, its financial strategy, and bull spread warrants
Ch 3 The three amigos (three option traders)
Ch 4 Metallgesellschaft AG: illusion of P/L, reality of cash flows
Ch 5 Swaps that shook an industry; P&G vs Bankers Trust
Ch 6 Orange County: the largest municipal failure in US history
Ch 7 Barings Bank PLC: Lesson's lessons
Ch 8 Long-Term Mismanagement: "John Merriwether and the Arb Boys"
IMHO, the author had delivered well what he promised on the book title. The cases are representative, concise but sufficiently detailed. The review questions in the end of each chapter and the absence of sophisticated option pricing formula make it particularly suitable as an HBR type textbooks on derivatives for business school undergrads. However, I am obliged to comment that the author had overlooked the negative influence of investmment bankers on the proliferation of derviatives. For readers who want to get a more complete picture, I would strongly recommend "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor", "Fiasco by Frank Partnoy", "Eyewitness to Wall Street by David Colbert" and "Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler".
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Lessons we can learn from debacles May 26, 2005
By Val
This book features examples of both good and bad uses of derivatives. All the scandals we read about in the newspaper are a result of certain factors which we can learn from. It is clear that each scandal has a lesson for us to learn from, but derivatives as financial instruments in itself are not bad or destructive. This book shows these lessons with simple explanations.
A must-have book.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Great book covering the history behind Derivatives! Dec 11, 2010
By Michael
I used this book for a Risk Management course in my MBA program. We had to read all of the cases in it which cover different hedge fund failures or derivative scams in which major companies lost billions of dollars. It is a very informative book which can get technical at some parts. It discusses the trading strategies of companies like Banker's Trust, LTCM, Amaranth, and many more. It is definitely worth the money and provides you with some impressive facts on the OTC market.
 Looks like pirate version Sep 11, 2011
By YY
The book looks cheap and comes with weird printing quality. There are strange shadows somewhere here and there around the graphs and charts. Alto the location of the body of article is different for different pages, some close to the right margin while some to the left.In a word, does not look like something decently produced in the US. Little bit disspointed.
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