Too smart for our own good : ingenious investment strategies, illusions of safety, and market crashes /

Too smart for our own good : ingenious investment strategies, illusions of safety, and market crashes / Bruce I. Jacobs.

Publisher's description: Leading financial thinker and successful funds manager Bruce I. Jacobs reveals how markets crash as the result of investment strategies that purport to reduce risk but that ultimately backfire. Are financial crises really "perfect storms" or are they the resul...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Bruce I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]
Subjects:
Investments.
Portfolio management.
Financial crises.
Finanzkrise.
Investition.
Portfoliomanagement.
Risikomanagement.
Table of Contents:
  • Creating financial storms
  • Reducing risk
  • Black Monday 1987
  • Replicating options
  • Portfolio insurance and futures markets
  • Portfolio insurance and the Crash
  • After the 1987 Crash : options
  • Options, hedge funds and the volatility of 1998
  • Long-term capital management
  • Long-term capital management postmortem
  • The credit crisis and Recession, 2007-2009
  • Blowing bubbles
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Securitization and the housing bubble
  • Securitization and the credit crisis
  • After the storm, 2010-2018
  • The European debt crisis
  • Illusions of safety and market meltdowns
  • Taming the tempest
  • Appendix A. Foreshadowing the crises : the Crash of 1929 ;
  • Appendix B. Primer on bonds, stocks and derivatives-- Appendix C. The debate on portfolio insurance
  • Appendix D. Derivatives disasters in the 1990s
  • Appendix E. Bruce Jacobs's Research Objectivity Standards Proposal.

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