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Con Men, The Leo Gough

Con Men, The By Leo Gough

Con Men, The by Leo Gough


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Con Men, The Summary

Con Men, The: A history of financial fraud and the lessons you can learn by Leo Gough

Financial fraud, whether large or small is a persistent feature of the financial markets. If you scratch the surface of the investment world youll find a continuous stream of major financial scandals which are almost unbelievable in the sheer scale of their subterfuge.

The Con Men shines a spotlight on some of these gargantuan frauds from the last 25 years. It questions how these men did it, why they did it, how there were able to get away with it, proposes strategies and tactics so that the reader can avoid being swindled.

Con Men, The Reviews

Leo Goughs book The Con Men is something that has needed to be written for a very long time. It gives a potted history of the major frauds that have been perpetrated on the investing public, who have lost masses of their hard earned capital, and who have no redress for the theft of their money.

Charles Vintcent, author of Investing for Recovery (FT Publishing, 2010)

About Leo Gough

Leo Gough was the editor of two investment newsletters during the 1990s, The Zurich Club and Taipan for Fleet Street Publications. Since 1997 he has spent much of his time in the Asia/Pacific region, working with banks, such as Citibank, and consultancy firms, such as AT Kearney. Currently Leo is working in management consultancy in the Middle East. He is the author of more than 20 books on personal finance and investment.

Table of Contents

  • Part One A brief but efficient history of trickery
  • Chapter 1 The horror stories
  • Chapter 2 Our touching need for confidence
  • Chapter 3 Shiny new inventions and old tricks
  • Part Two Lets go to work: the confidence men in action
  • Chapter 4 Sharks or maniacs?
  • Chapter 5 Yielding to temptation: the Allen Stanford story
  • Chapter 6 Shamanagement: financial wizardry to create paper profits
  • Part Three Why we get the swindlers we deserve
  • Chapter 7 Some deadly sins of investment: trusting false prophets, investing for the Apocalypse and the money illusion
  • Chapter 8 Moral hazard in the system
  • Chapter 9 Due negligence: failing to do the analysis
  • Part Four How to avoid being swindled
  • Chapter 10 Funds are not all the same!
  • Chapter 11 All the books are cooked: the trouble with company accounts
  • Chapter 12 Safer strategies
  • Afterword
  • Further reading
  • Index

Additional information

NGR9780273751342
9780273751342
0273751344
Con Men, The: A history of financial fraud and the lessons you can learn by Leo Gough
New
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2013-08-01
224
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