- 172 pages
- English
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The Lunacy of Modern Finance Theory and Regulation
About this book
This provocative book provides insight into a finance industry that is run for the benefit of banks and service providers who rely on Beatles-era theories and regulation which are totally unsuited to the modern world. The author has a near-unique perspective based on over 30 years of working – literally around the globe – for corporates, fund managers and as finance academic. In his last role his research has focused on investment decisions, and during 2012 he interviewed 34 fund managers in Istanbul, London, New York and Melbourne. He blends rich understanding of finance theory and practice to unravel the investment industry's structure and show how banks and other finance institutions privilege themselves at investors' expense.
The book highlights that finance industry self-regulation is weak. Risks from inexpertise, theft, bad data and other sources are high. Regulation of the industry appears to be ineffectual with the setting of such a high bar that it is virtually impossible to successfully prosecute even the most blatant and egregious offenders.
The book closes with the simple suggestion that corporations' regulations be altered to introduce the strict liability offence of being a director or officer of a large bank that becomes bankrupt. This follows the strategy of legislation that has been effective in cleaning up the environment, making workplaces safer and reducing crime by punishing those responsible for an offence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- The Author
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chronic failure of finance theory to survive contact with the real world
- 3 Finance industry’s inability to manage walls of money
- 4 Risk! What risk can there possibly be?
- 5 Crooks, scams and biases: the grease of finance
- 6 How does finance really work?
- 7 The mixed record of finance regulation
- 8 Is there a better basis for corporations regulation?
- 9 Conclusion: even if finance is unworldly, who cares?
- References
- Index