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How to invest in a Bear Market
ISBN: 0-9053-4012-4 Arrange your finances shrewdly and you can weather the roughest financial storms. The top investors in Britain the fund managers at the Pru, TSB, Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Merrill Lynch, Touche Remnant and Gartmore explain what they do to protect the value of savings when the stock market falls, or the economy is depressed. |
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Fraud the Growth Industry of the 1980sby Mihir Bose and Cathy Gunn ISBN: 0-0444-0299-6 Fraud is now big business. Its roots run deep into the fabric of finance and commerce, nurtured by the rapid, perhaps too rapid expansion of 24-hour electronic international trading since the deregulation of the stock market. It is now all too easy for the skilled fraudster to engage in shady deals (and cover his tracks quicker than the blink of an eye). Indeed, it is estimated that the amount of fraudulently converted cash swilling around the world at any one time more than equals the Gross National Products of several Third World countries. In this carefully researched and riveting book, the authors trace the recent history and growth of fraud and its consequences in the UK and America. They analyse several well-known recent cases, many stretching around the world, to draw an appalling picture of lacklustre control and mismanagement. We join them and the investigators on the thrilling and often dangerous money trail as step by step the net closes on their quarry. Finally, they talk to the investigators themselves, who reveal a sorry tale of often unrewarding, hard slog bound by red tape, lack of resources and secrecy. This is a fascinating, exciting book which takes us behind the scenes of the stories that dominate the headlines to reveal a deeply murky world behind the glossy facades of the City. |
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The Crash: The 1987-88 World Market Slump
ISBN: 0-7493-0013-2 In the early part of October 1987, the world's stock markets were at record levels. By the end of the month they were in disarray with record falls not only in London and New York but Tokyo, Sydney and Hong Kong, where trading was suspended. Since then the media have been exploring the whys and wherefores and forecasting what might be about to happen next. But only so much can be done in short articles The Crash for the first time gives not the glib answers but a controversial and forthright critique of the whole system. In this book, the author ties in the crash to the short memories of the markets which react instantaneously to events. He highlights the fact that the 24-hour market, which was heralded as a great stabilising factor, in fact means increased stability as the markets fell domino-like one after the other. The book should be of interest to shareholders and anyone interested in the workings of the market. His hard-hitting analysis goes further than mere journalistic comment and makes The Crash required reading for shareholders and anyone interested in how the market works. |
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Crash! A New Money Crisis: a Children's Guide to Money
ISBN: 0-5311-7138-8 This series of children’s books is specifically designed to discuss the most important issues on Earth today. On Monday 19 October 1987, the value of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street fell by a record amount: a staggering 22.6 per cent of the value of the exchange was wiped out in just one day's trading. The day was dubbed Black Monday and triggered a chain of events that shook all the world's major stock markets. It looks at how the world's money system is organised and why people fear the 'knock-on effects' of financial uncertainty on a country's currency, interest rates and trade. |
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Insurance: Are You Covered?
ISBN: 0-8512-1417-7 Are you underinsured? Do you have adequate protection for your home and its contents, you family, your car or your business? This book explains how you can identify risks, assess your insurance needs and choose the most suitable types of policies. Review: Sunday Telegraph: |
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