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Posted: Aug 15 2008
There are more words and concepts than bone-crunching figures. Without analyzing figures it is hard to decide whether learning Financial Risk would be as useful. Plain Flat text books still prevails this arena.
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Posted: Jul 17 2008
Dealing with Financial Risk offers a great overview of the history of financial errors. The book includes Long-Term Capital Management errors, among a number of other hedge funds.
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( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 27 2007
David Shirreff was one of the first and remains one of the few journalists to tackle the challenging subject of financial risk. In this book, he collects material from articles he published during the 1990s (a period of astonishing innovation in the field), supplemented by interviews with some of the true luminaries in the areas of financial engineering and financial risk management. Shirreff is a lucid writer with a sharp and concise style. He has the rare gift of making the complexities of finance accessible to a general readership. Therefore, we recommend this book both to financial professionals and to general readers who have an interest in the subject.
