Welcome to the Real City of London | p. IX |
Introduction | p. 1 |
In the Beginning There Was Coffee | p. 3 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
Hot Drinks and Hotter Stocks | p. 6 |
Living Memory: Post-War Bowler Hats and Gorillas | p. 8 |
Big Bang | p. 13 |
Measuring the Success of Big Bang | p. 17 |
Viewing Big Bang in the Context of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis | p. 20 |
What We Have Learned | p. 21 |
If you Don't Know the Rules, Don't Play the Market | p. 23 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
Well-worn, but Sound, Advice | p. 26 |
The Full Monty | p. 26 |
7 Rules for the Street-Smart Trader | p. 28 |
Scams and the City | p. 36 |
What We Have Learned | p. 42 |
Share Price Manipulation and Insider Dealing | p. 43 |
Introduction | p. 45 |
Trash and Cash - How Share Prices are Easily Manipulated | p. 45 |
Manipulation of the Media | p. 47 |
On Share Ramping | p. 49 |
First Person: Analysing Market News | p. 51 |
The Inside Track on Insider Dealing | p. 55 |
What We Have Learned | p. 63 |
The City Spin Game and How it is Played | p. 65 |
Introduction | p. 67 |
Public Relations | p. 68 |
First Person: The Corporate Message | p. 71 |
Companies and Press Attention | p. 82 |
The Friday Night Drop | p. 86 |
Speaking in Tongues- Typical Ambiguous Phrases Used by Journalists | p. 87 |
What We Have Learned | p. 89 |
The Trouble with Analysts | p. 91 |
Introduction | p. 93 |
Going Back in Time | p. 94 |
What Analysts Do | p. 95 |
The Relationship Between Banks, Funds and Analysts | p. 102 |
A Bloke Called Blodget | p. 103 |
Analysts and the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis | p. 105 |
What We Have Learned | p. 106 |
Market Makers and Other Professional Traders | p. 109 |
Introduction | p. 111 |
The Misunderstood Market Maker | p. 112 |
First Person: Meeting a Market Marker | p. 118 |
Proprietary Trading: The Fall and Rise of Casino Banking | p. 120 |
Stuck in the Middle… The Inter-Dealer Broker | p. 123 |
Dark Pools of Liquidity | p. 124 |
High-Frequency Trading | p. 125 |
The Methods of Institutional Investors | p. 128 |
The (Under)performance of Fund Managers | p. 129 |
What We Have Learned | p. 130 |
Hedge Funds | p. 133 |
Introduction | p. 135 |
A Beginner's Guide to Hedge Funds | p. 136 |
Tackling Misconceptions About Hedge Funds | p. 144 |
Risk Consultancy | p. 151 |
Hedge Funds, Market Colour and Inside Information | p. 153 |
What We Have Learned | p. 154 |
Boardroom Stock Pickers | p. 157 |
Introduction | p. 159 |
The Humanity of the Boardroom | p. 159 |
Monitoring Investments Made by the Boardroom | p. 160 |
To Follow the Trades of the Boardroom or Not | p. 164 |
What We Have Learned | p. 167 |
Vanity, Egotism and Fear: the World of Mergers and Acquisitions | p. 169 |
Introduction | p. 171 |
Synergies in Mergers and Acquisitions | p. 171 |
Mergers and Shareholder Value | p. 172 |
Deal Making is Glamorous, Due Diligence is Not | p. 174 |
When Deals Go Bad | p. 177 |
Those Who Profit from M&A | p. 178 |
What We Have Learned | p. 179 |
Conclusion | p. 181 |
Endnotes | p. 183 |
Tables and Figures | |
Annual US Department of Justice insider trading prosecutions | p. 60 |
Top PR firms working for FTSE clients (by number of clients) | p. 69 |
Top PR firms working for AIM clients (by number of clients) | p. 70 |
Unusual share price movements before takeovers | p. 61 |
Earnings revisions for Labrador Holdings PLC | p. 97 |
Investment recommendations on UK stocks between 2007 and 2009 | p. 99 |
How access to live pricing might look | p. 114 |
How high-frequency traders make their money | p. 127 |
The change in trading strategies in the last two decades | p. 138 |
Stock picking by Britain's top bankers during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 | p. 163 |
Value enhancement trend 1999-2008 | p. 173 |
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