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Just as night follows day, a fall inevitably trails a stock market rise. As the Internet share frenzy reaches its nadir and bankruptcies loom, the vultures start circling. Hilary Rosenberg's delightful Vulture Investors details the work of investors who pick through the carcasses of busted companies. She describes in colourful detail the efforts of Michael Price buying defaulted bonds of Storage Technology Corporation in the mid-1980s. We learn about the early training of junk bond-corporate ... less info

Just as night follows day, a fall inevitably trails a stock market rise. As the Internet share frenzy reaches its nadir and bankruptcies loom, the vultures start circling. Hilary Rosenberg's deligh... more info

Pages: 180, Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, Krieger Publishing Company less info

Pages: 180, Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, Krieger Publishing Company

Britons have had an uncertain relationship with the stock market. Novices 20 years ago, many of us were introduced to shares by the privatisation of the utilities in the 1980s, and demutualisation of the building societies in the 1990s. Today, half the 12 million Britons who hold shares hold them in a single company, frightened of a volatile market where a profit-free dotcom newcomer can force a centuries-old blue chip company such as Whitbread out of the FTSE-100, and where economic crisis i... less info

Britons have had an uncertain relationship with the stock market. Novices 20 years ago, many of us were introduced to shares by the privatisation of the utilities in the 1980s, and demutualisation ... more info

Pages: 500, Paperback, Glenmore Pub less info

Pages: 500, Paperback, Glenmore Pub

Pages: 539, Paperback, Adler Publishing Company Inc. less info

Pages: 539, Paperback, Adler Publishing Company Inc.

With nerves of steel and a cool head, mutual-fund manager Mark Mobius travels the globe in search of good, undiscovered companies in risky, emerging markets. In Passport to Profits, he takes you on a enlightening international tour, from Estonia to Russia to Nigeria. He shows you how he's established a winning long-term record at Franklin Templeton funds, up an average 20 per cent a year between 1987 and 1997. "I'd toured rubber plantations in Thailand and road-tested bikes over the poth... less info

With nerves of steel and a cool head, mutual-fund manager Mark Mobius travels the globe in search of good, undiscovered companies in risky, emerging markets. In Passport to Profits, he takes you on... more info