Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System

by Mark Williams

Overview

Why was Lehman ignored when everyone else was bailed out?

A risk advisor for top financial institutions and top B-school professor, Mark Williams explains how uncontrolled risk toppled a 158-year-old institution, using this story as a microcosm to illuminate the interconnection of the global financial system, as well as broader policy implications.

This story is told through the eyes of an experienced risk manager and educator in a detailed and engaging way and provides the reader with a complete summary of how a savvy company with sophisticated employees and systems could have gotten it so wrong.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071749046
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	04/16/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	987,661
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mark T. Williams is a risk management practitionerand academic with two decades of experience.He has worked as a senior executive for majorenergy trading companies, a trust banker, and anexaminer for the Federal Reserve Bank. Williams iscurrently on the fi nance and economics faculty atBoston University and serves as a senior advisor atthe Brattle Group. He has been a guest columnistfor Reuters.com, Forbes.com, and the Boston Globe.

Table of Contents

1. The Inquisition
2. Lehman: From Humble Roots to Wall Street Contender
3. From Private to Public
4. History of Investment Banking
5. How the Investment Banking Money Machine Works
6. The Roller-Coaster 1980s
7. The 1990s: Rebuilding Years
8. Lehman's Near Death Experience
9. Innovation, Imitation and Increased Risk: Mortgage-Backed Securities
10. Lehman's Risk Management
11. The Real Estate Bet and the Race to the Bottom
12. The Bear Mauling
13. Time Runs Out
14. The Death of Lehman, Regulation, and Investment Banking
15. The Eneablers and the Deciders
Epilogue: The Post-Lehman Financial Landscape
Appendix: Lehman Brothers Chronology of Key Events