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Structured
Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (Wiley
Finance)
September
2008. Click
here for errata. Available everywhere including Amazon,
Borders, and Barnes&Noble
“ Janet Tavakoli has warned people about the risks in structured finance
for years. Now she has written a primer that the investor on Main Street can
understand and the pro on Wall Street would be unwise to ignore.”
Roger Lowenstein
Author of When Genius Failed, and Buffett: The Making of an American
Capitalist
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Praise for the Second Edition
"Janet Tavakoli warned the world this disaster was coming
well in advance. Now she explains it again for those who
did not listen before as well as why it is not over yet.
You need to read this book to understand the biggest credit
bubble in world history."
Jim Rogers
Author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist, and Investment
Biker
"Janet Tavakoli has been able to dissect with a brisk style the intricacies
of many structured products. Not only does she explain in a clear and insightful
manner how certain things work, but more important, why others DO NOT WORK!!!
Highly recommended and very much needed."
Arturo Cifuentes, Ph.D.
Professor/Business School en Universidad Adolfo Ibanez. Member, Investment Committee,
Chilean Sovereign Fund |
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With
Trillions On the Table Nobody Plays Fair, and Everyone
Plays for Keeps.
The
New Robber Barons is Tavakoli’s on-going
chronicle of the global financial crisis captured
in her articles from the September 2008 financial
crisis through February 2012. Tavakoli serves up
example after stunning international example of no-strings-attached
socialization of losses and privatization of gains
and exposes the criminogenic environment that enabled
international oligarchs to solidify power. (Available
now as an E-book for purchase in local currency in
the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Italy,
and Spain |
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Dear
Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from
Wall Street(Wiley 2009)
"Janet
Tavakoli warned the biggest credit bubble in world
history was coming well in advance. Now she explains
how the world could have avoided this disaster and how
we can prevent it from happening the next time."
Jim Rogers, Author of A Bull in China
Other
Languages: Orthodox
Chinese, Japanese,
simplified Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Turkish. (Errata corrected
in second edition)
Barnes&Noble,
Amazon,
and other book stores.
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Praise
for Dear Mr. Buffett
"Buffett,
Tavakoli Flag Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoffs" -
Bloomberg News
"The book’s real strength is the sub-plot that
emerges as Tavakoli tugs vigorously at the seemingly disparate
threads of the current financial crisis, naming names,
citing cases and leaving no schmuck — whether investment
bank, credit rating agency, monoline insurer, mortgage
brokers, regulators and their ilk — unspared.
Based on more than 20 years in the derivatives arena,
and having
served time at Salomon Bros, Bear Stearns and Goldman
Sachs, she knows that of what and who she speaks. Should
anyone
ever display the slightest interest in criminalizing
the criminals who led us down this path, a prosecutor
could
do worse than ordering up copies for the grand jury."
Greg Newton (1956-2009), Founder and Editor of MarHedge
"Tavakoli
has been railing against emperors wearing no clothes
in the credit derivatives markets forever. If
only people had listened."
Andrew Tobias
Author of The Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need,
AndrewTobias.com
" Full
of anecdotes, details and character sketches that add depth...she
knows her stuff, has strong opinions
and turns a colourful quote."
Paul J. Davies - Financial Times
"Janet
Tavakoli writes about the exotic, abstract financial
instruments that helped
implode the U.S. financial
markets, and she writes in a clear, sprightly way. She
knows a lot, and translates it well. Contrasting the shenanigans
of recent years against the good analysis and common sense
of Warren Buffett is appropriate, and helps to illustrate
the levels of irrational behavior."
Adam Smith (George J.W. Goodman)
Author of The
Money Game and Supermoney
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"Buffett,
Tavakoli Flag Ponzi Scheme Bigger Than Madoff's," Bloomberg
News - March 5, 2009
"No
Mere Buffett, a 14-Course Menu," Seeking
Alpha - January
8, 2009
"The
Housing Collapse: What would Buffett do?" Free
Lance Star - January
25, 2009
"On
Buffett and Derivatives," Seeking Alpha -
February 2, 2009
"Dear
Mr. Buffett: A Book Review with a Little 'Extra,'" -
Seeking Alpha - February 2, 2009
"Featured
Book Look: Dear Mr. Buffett," TraderFeed -
February 20, 2009
"The
Financial Meltdown Foreseen," Financial
Times - February
23, 2009
"Rousing
Tale of Advice Left Unheeded," Business
Standard
- April
23,
2009
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Collateralized
Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (Available
everywhere including Amazon and Barnes& Noble)
John Wiley & Sons,
2003 by Janet Tavakoli. In the global bestseller in the field,
financial expert Janet Tavakoli examines groundbreaking securitization
topics: the huge increase in the CDO synthetic arbitrage; the tranches
benefiting most from this new technology; special purpose entities;
new securitization products made possible by credit derivatives
technology and more.
Click for details about
Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations
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"CDO
Evolution Creates New World of Risk" -
GARP Risk Review
"Buyer
Beware"
- International Financing
Review (adaptation)
"Book Debates Racing Deal" - Financial Times
"Want Good Numbers?
Watch Your Language" -
HedgeWorld
“Caveat Emptor!
Never in the history of finance has this warning been
more appropriate.
With the development of CDO’s, Credit Derivatives and
other esoteric structured finance techniques, market participants—the
savvy as well as the novice—are exposed to a bewildering
array of new ideas, concepts and structures. Janet Tavakoli
has tackled these subjects in an outstanding mixture of exposition,
mathematics and skepticism. A must read for anyone who plans
to play in these markets.”
Jack
Caouette (Then) Vice Chairman MBIA Insurance Corporation
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John
Wiley & Sons 2001, by Janet Tavakoli, is the groundbreaking
global bestseller on credit derivatives products. In this classic
guide to products and concepts, Tavakoli makes the case for
profitable credit derivatives hedging and investing (first edition
is available in Japanese and Orthodox Chinese).
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"If
you want to know more about credit derivatives -
and these days an increasing number of people do
- then you should read this book."
Merton H. Miller, winner, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
Click
here for more about Credit Derivatives & Synthetic
Structures
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Japanese
Edition - Credit Derivatives: A Guide to
Instruments and Applications Sigma Base,
1999, by Janet Tavakoli, is available in Japanese
from Sigma Base publishing in Japan, ISBN 4-916106-35-0.
Users with Japanese character language packs can
also order from Amazon Japan.
Also available in orthodox Chinese. |
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