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- Product code: 233595
- ISBN: 0471227277,
ISBN13: 9780471227274,
288 pages, hardback
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc on 2007
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Description of A Demon of Our Own Design |
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 Management, Bookstaber gives readers a front row seat to the management decisions made by some of the most powerful financial figures in the world that led to catastrophe, and describes the impact of his own activities on markets and market crashes. Much of the innovation of the last 30 years has wreaked havoc on the markets and cost trillions of dollars."A Demon of Our Own Design" tells the story of man's attempt to manage market risk and what it has wrought.
In the process of showing what we have done, Bookstaber shines a light on what the future holds for a world where capital and power have moved from Wall Street institutions to elite and highly leveraged hedge funds.
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Reviews"[Bookstaber is] a risk-management maven who's been on Wall Street for decades and is now a portfolio manager for a small hedge fund. Bookstaber's book shows us some complex strategies that very smart people followed to seemingly reduce risk--but that led to huge losses." (Newsweek)
"Mr. Bookstaber is one of Wall Street's 'rocket scientists'--mathematicians lured from academia to help create both complex financial instruments and new computer models for making investing decisions. In the book, he makes a simple point: The turmoil in the financial markets today comes less from changes in the economy--economic growth, for example, is half as volatile as it was 50 years ago--and more from some of the financial instruments (derivatives) that were designed to control risk." (New York Times)
| Contents of A Demon of Our Own Design |
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Paradox of Market Risk.
CHAPTER 2: The Demons of ’87.
CHAPTER 3: A New Sheriff in Town.
CHAPTER 4: How Salomon Rolled the Dice and Lost.
CHAPTER 5: They Bought Salomon, Then They Killed It.
CHAPTER 6: Long-Term Capital Management Rides the Leverage Cycle to Hell.
CHAPTER 7: Colossus.
CHAPTER 8: Complexity, Tight Coupling, and Normal Accidents.
CHAPTER 9: The Brave New World of Hedge Funds.
CHAPTER 10: Cockroaches and Hedge Funds.
CHAPTER 11: Hedge Fund Existential.
Conclusion: Built to Crash?
Notes.
Index.
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About Richard M. Bookstaber |
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 received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
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