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Part Two Let’s go to work: the confidence men in action
by Leo Gough
The Con Men
Cover
Title
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One A brief but efficient history of trickery
Chapter 1 The horror stories
Bernie Madoff
Allen Stanford
Could you have spotted a problem?
Lessons from the past
If you can’t trust the analysts and the auditors, who can you trust?
Chapter 2 Our touching need for confidence
Insider trading
Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine
Robert Vesco
Plus ça change ...
Chapter 3 Shiny new inventions and old tricks
Ponzi and ‘Pump and Dump’ schemes
The SEC and Bernard Madoff
Further SEC investigations
Some frauds just never go away
Part Two Let’s go to work: the confidence men in action
Chapter 4 Sharks or maniacs?
Are some financial fraudsters psychopaths?
Routine activity theory
Nigerian scams – a different type of fraudster altogether?
The problem with plausibility
Chapter 5 Yielding to temptation: the Allen Stanford story
Offshore jurisdictions
Good old boys
Making sense of Stanford
Chapter 6 Shamanagement: financial wizardry to create paper profits
The Olympus scandal
The man who became the ‘Man from Del Monte’
Investors versus business shamans
Part Three Why we get the swindlers we deserve
Chapter 7 Some deadly sins of investment: trusting false prophets, investing for the Apocalypse and the money illusion
Selling the sizzle, not the steak
Gold bugs: waiting for Armageddon
The money illusion
You can fool some of the people all of the time ...
Chapter 8 Moral hazard in the system
The LIBOR scandal
The swindling of Jefferson County, Alabama
Surviving the banks
Chapter 9 Due negligence: failing to do the analysis
Harry Markopolos and Bernie Madoff
A word on funds and funds of funds
Due diligence always matters
Part Four How to avoid being swindled
Chapter 10 Funds are not all the same!
The Bayou hedge fund fraud
Avoiding hedge fund fraud
Chapter 11 All the books are cooked: the trouble with company accounts
Legal differences
Corporate governance from the investor’s point of view
Company accounts
Crazy Eddie
Enron
Investors and accounts
Chapter 12 Safer strategies
The first line of defence against fraud
Lower your expectations
Asset allocation
Afterword
Further reading
Index
Imprint
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