Published by FT Publishing International (August 27, 2013) © 2014
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 you’ll 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.
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.
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- 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 Let’s 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