Book Reviews
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Book ReviewBooks: Financial crises and the failure of risk measures
This is a great book for anybody who would like to understand the causes and dynamics of financial crises. The author delivers deep insights into systemic financial risks for our economies, and why risk management tools and regulations fail when it matters most. The text is written in conversational style, full of anecdotes, wisdoms and polemics, which makes reading a pleasure even for the non-expert. To be recommended not only for risk managers but also for investment directors and trustees.
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Books: How liquid are liquid assets?
Amin Rajan speaks to Pascal Blanqué about his latest book
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Books – Demographics Unravelled: A broad and granular understanding of demographics
Amlan Roy’s contention in his new book Demographics Unravelled is that a wider and more holistic approach to demographics is necessary. An academic by background and a long-standing former head of global demographics and pensions research at Credit Suisse, Roy’s choice of focus in his book underlines his views.
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Books: How a small island helped shape modern China’s world view
The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan, HarperCollins, 2021
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Books: It all boils down to the three Ds
Paul Marshall’s pocket guide to fund management covers multiple subjects, each of which really deserves its own book. Nonetheless, he writes well, and has produced a diverse and entertaining work.
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Book review: Radical Uncertainty by John Kay and Mervyn King
Within the terms of their own analysis, the authors of Radical Uncertainty might be remembered for a prescience they could neither possess nor aspire to
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Book review: The Signs Were There - Spilling the saucerful of secrets
Tim Steer’s romp through the world of dodgy accounting practices and share price debacles is beyond shocking. He brings together his forensic examinations of publicly quoted companies’ accounts, and demonstrates clearly that “the signs were (indeed) there” in a way that induces reader incredulity.
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Book review: Only the Best Will Do
Peter Seilern, the founder of Seilern Investment Management, has a reputation for investing in ‘quality growth companies.’ In reading his credo ‘Only the Best Will Do,’ you realise this career-long passion reaches almost religious dedication. Never mention ‘value investing’ in his presence.
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Book review: Achieving Investment Excellence
Fix asset allocation and the numbers will follow. This rule of thumb originated from an influential study published in 1986, which showed that 93.6% of variations in a portfolio’s returns are due to asset allocation policy.
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Book review: The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
David Webber is well placed to rehearse the legal and political arguments around public pension funds’ power to change companies
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Book Review: Pension lessons from abroad
Pensions as an area of public policy are uniquely steeped in peculiarities. National social-political traditions, labour market practice, and tax legislation are just a few of these
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Book Review: An energy supply for life
Joseph Mariathasan reviews Wade Allison’s Nuclear is for Life: A Cultural Revolution
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Book Review: The Future of Pension Management
Where others might lose themselves in a discussion on organisational design, regulation or social policy, Keith Ambachtsheer’s book wastes no time in placing pension funds at the heart of capitalism
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Book review: Ambachtsheer's 'The Future of Pension Management'
IPE editor Liam Kennedy reviews Keith Ambachtsheer’s latest book on the pensions industry
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Book Review: Exploding the fairy tale
Essays in Positive Investment Management, Pascal Blanqué,
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Book Review: Compendium of lessons for investors
A review of ‘Expected Returns. An Investor’s Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards’ by Antti Ilmanen, published by Wiley Finance, February 2011.
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Book review: 'European Pensions & Global Finance'
Gordon Clark’s book, European Pensions and Global Finance, provides a refreshing addition to the burgeoning literature on social security and old age retirement security. Rather than offer another solution to the pending crisis, he reviews the political economy and economic geography to examine the role and status of European pension ...
