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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781915590916
- Titel
- Chaos Kings
- Författare
- Patterson, Scott
- Förlag
- Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 2024
- Omfång
- 336 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 129 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 20 mm
- Vikt
- 264 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- For fans of The Black Swan and written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, technological disruption, political radicalisation, religious fundamentalism - all threaten chaos that put trillions in assets at risk. But around the world, across a wide variety of disciplines, would-be super-forecasters are trying to take the guesswork out of what formerly seemed like random chance. Some put their faith in 'black swans' - unpredictable, catastrophic events that can't be foreseen but send exotic financial instruments screaming in high-profit directions. Most famous among this group of big-bet traders are those who run the Universa fund, who, on days of extreme upheaval, have made as much as $1 billion. Author Scott Patterson gained exclusive access to Universa strategists and met with savvy seers in a variety of fields, from earthquake prediction to counterterrorism to climatology, to see if it's actually possible to bet on disaster - and win. Riveting, relevant, and revelatory, this is a must-read for anyone curious about how some of today's investors alchemise catastrophe into profit.
Faber & Faber 9781915590916 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781847940599
- Titel
- The Quants
- Författare
- Scott Patterson
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Omfång
- 337 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 21 mm
- Vikt
- 245 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- You're a genius. Nobody plays the financial markets better than you. What could possibly go wrong? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. But as the catastrophic events of 2007 and 2008 showed, their seemingly failproof methods were little more than ticking timebombs. Inspired by the 'Godfather of Quants' - maths-professor-turned-gambler Ed Thorp, who began applying skills learned at the Vegas tables to the financial markets back in the 1950s - the quants achieved extraordinary success and massive wealth. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they got it so disastrously wrong.
Random House UK 9781847940599 -
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK
- ISBN
- 9781847940599
- Titel
- The Quants
- Författare
- Scott Patterson
- Förlag
- Random House UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Omfång
- 337 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 197 mm Ryggbredd 21 mm
- Vikt
- 245 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- You're a genius. Nobody plays the financial markets better than you. What could possibly go wrong? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. But as the catastrophic events of 2007 and 2008 showed, their seemingly failproof methods were little more than ticking timebombs. Inspired by the 'Godfather of Quants' - maths-professor-turned-gambler Ed Thorp, who began applying skills learned at the Vegas tables to the financial markets back in the 1950s - the quants achieved extraordinary success and massive wealth. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they got it so disastrously wrong.
Random House UK 9781847940599
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