Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance: 2nd Edition

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance: 2nd Edition
by Paul Wilmott

ISBN: 9780470748756, £29.99, Paperback

“Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding notional of all contracts is now many multiples of the underlying world economy.

“No longer are derivatives for helping people control and manage their financial risks from other business and industries, no, it seems that the people are toiling away in the fields to keep the derivatives market afloat! (Apologies for the mixed metaphor!) If you work in derivatives, risk, development, trading, etc. you'd better know what you are doing, there's now a big responsibility on your shoulders.” Paul Wilmott

Bailout Nation By Barry Rithholtz

Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
by Barry Ritholtz

ISBN:  9780470520383, £16.99, Hardback

Bailout Nation is a revealing narrative about the politicians, financial leaders and institutions, and the regulators responsible for the financial crisis of 2008-09. 

Lecturing Birds on Flying by Pablo Triana

Lecturing Birds on Flying – Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets
By Pablo Triana

“Make no mistake: Quantitative finance had a very large hand in what could well be the worst financial crisis in the history of mankind,” argues Pablo Triana, in his latest book Lecturing Birds on Flying. 

Finance theory failed on several fronts simultaneously during the present financial crisis, and blind devotion to it was instrumental in causing, encouraging, and not helping prevent the global-wide destruction of the markets.

Day One Trader – A Liffe Story

Day One Trader – A Liffe Story
by John Sussex

Day One Trader – A Liffe Story: is a powerful, brutally honest autobiographical account of legendary Liffe trader John Sussex and the events and people that shaped one of the most exciting periods in trading history - from open outcry to screen trading at the Liffe exchange.

Google Speaks by Janet Lowe

Google Speaks: Secrets of the Worlds Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
By Janet Lowe

We don’t ‘Search engines that’, we ‘Google it’ demonstrating how big a household name Google has become in the last 15 years.  Written in the Speaks style that has proven so successful in profiling other business leaders, Google Speaks will reveal the story behind Google, a company that has created a new model for corporate responsibility and employee relations.

MAY 2009 – Newsletter – Forthcoming Titles for May and June from Wiley’s Finance list

Hello and welcome to the May/June issue of Wiley’s Finance Books Newsletter

   

Wiley to publish A Gift to my Children by Jim Rogers

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it plans to publish the book A Gift to my Children: a Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing, by the co-founder of the Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers.  The book’s scheduled publication date is 12 May 2009.

A Gift to my Children is a heartfelt, indispensable guide written for his daughters to find success and happiness in life.  The book has a wide appeal among those who are keen to secure their financial futures as well as investors.  In A Gift to my Children, Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candour and confidence, but this time he adds paternal compassion, protectiveness and love.  Rogers reveals how to learn from triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous, well-lived life. 

NEW! Corporate Finance, Accounting and Auditing Catalogue 2009!

 

Wiley delivers some insight into what really happened with the global financial crisis with three brand new publications

In 2008 the global financial crisis started to show its effects and the world entered into a deep recession.  Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed, and governments even in the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.

To coincide with these tough times, Wiley is publishing three books which tackle these complex subject areas.

Titles featured:
- Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System, edited by Viral Acharya and Matthew Richardson
- The House of Dimon: How Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World by Patricia Crisafulli
- Bailout Nation: How Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy: Barry Ritholtz