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Predators and profits : 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs

Title
Predators and profits : 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs / Martin Howell.
Author
Howell, Martin.
Publication
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Reuters Prentice Hall, ©2003.

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Description
xxxviii, 265 pages; 24 cm
Summary
A comprehensive "no sacred cows" guide to spotting financial scams and how to avoid them, this handbook for the investment consumer shows how to spot the snake oil of the past, present and future.
Subject
  • Investments
  • Finance, Personal
  • Securities fraud
  • Corporations > Corrupt practices
  • Business ethics > United States
  • Investments
  • Business ethics
  • Risque financier
  • Finances personnelles
  • Fraude
  • Morale des affaires
  • Corruption
  • Placement financier
  • United States
  • États-Unis
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
1. Sages and charlatans: avoiding the fads, the buzz, the rip-offs and the merely dumb -- 2. Pipedreams and big lies -- 3. The superstar CEO: celebrities, showmen, and destroyers -- 4. Jets, parachutes and stealth wealth: pay for performance or pay for plundering -- 5. Caffeine badly needed: sleepy, inept and tainted boards -- 6. Growing mushrooms: the art of the opaque, sneaky and buried -- 7. Culture of greed: sports stadiums, shooting the messenger, and rank and yank -- 8. Earnings tricks and games: manipulating the numbers and "creative" fraud -- 9. Goosing, stuffing and faking: tricks of the trade to drive revenue up and costs down -- 10. Beyond their means: balance sheet clues that may stop you from losing your shirt -- 11. Snakes and ladders: spinning, flipping and walking through Wall Street's walls -- 12. At the scene of the crime: funds became part of the happy conspiracy -- 13. Where were the auditors? Counting fictitious bean -- 14. Media munchkins and masters: separating puff piece writers from hard diggers -- 15. Abstention to follow addiction: when disenchantment with low returns hits home.
ISBN
  • 0131402447
  • 9780131402447
LCCN
2003046599
OCLC
  • ocm52002323
  • 52002323
  • SCSB-1434994
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library