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Richard Bookstaber ran an equity hedge fund at FrontPoint Partners and 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 PhD in economics from MIT. He now works at a hedge fund in Connecticut.
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
About the Author | p. xix |
Introduction: The Paradox of Market Risk | p. 1 |
The Demons of '87 | p. 7 |
A New Sheriff in Town | p. 33 |
How Salomon Rolled the Dice and Lost | p. 51 |
They Bought Salomon, Then They Killed It | p. 77 |
Long-Term Capital Management Rides the Leverage Cycle to Hell | p. 97 |
Colossus | p. 125 |
Complexity, Tight Coupling, and Normal Accidents | p. 143 |
The Brave New World of Hedge Funds | p. 165 |
Cockroaches and Hedge Funds | p. 207 |
Hedge Fund Existential | p. 243 |
Conclusion: Built to Crash? | p. 255 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Index | p. 273 |
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