Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics is the first detailed account of the investment booms and busts that drive China's business cycles. The book looks first at the causes of these fluctuations, then examines the central government's countercyclical policy responses. The …
The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering t…
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin?s corruption. Bill Browder?s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Sta…
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the So…
At the turn of this century, China's capital market entered a new era. Since then, the continuously fast growth and rising income levels in China have led to significant change in the market's financial structure. Increasingly active financial investments that are becoming more …
Provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story of their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, their explosive battles with central banks in the 1980s and 1990s, and finally their role in the financial crisis of 2007-9. Hedge funds reward risk takers,…
"In Exchange-Traded Funds and the New Dynamics of Investing, Ananth Madhavan examines the quiet transformation of asset management through the rise of passive or index investing. A closely-related phenomenon is the rise of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). An ETF is an investment ve…
