Britain’s Simon Cawkwell, (aka ‘Evil Knievil’) is a living legend in trading circles. Famous for spotting overvalued stocks and ‘shorting’ them, Cawkwell has been known to make as much as £500,000 in just one week.Evil’s Good: Book of Boasts and Other Investments offers a rare insight into the mind of the UK’s most famous ‘shorter’. Read all about his triumphs (and downfalls) and learn the common sense methods behind Cawkwell’s phenomenal success and great wealth.P...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING TRUE STORY OF GREED AND OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE ON WALL STREET: A MODERN CLASSIC'The funniest book on Wall Street I've ever read.' - Tom WolfeIn 1986, before Michael Lewis became the bestselling author of The Big Short, Moneyball, and Flash Boys, he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to...

Technology is taking over our lives. Now you are free to invest both locally and off-shore; cards have replaced cash and you are continually bombarded by new investment products and changing laws. Yet knowing how to invest successfully is more important than ever. Heres the good news: the basics are timeless. Laws change principles dont.

'A compelling portrait of early 21st century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The TimesOn 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England.It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journalist. Over the weeks that followed, the Government found itself exposed to the Rock to th...

In the context of recent financial upheavals and ongoing uncertainty, Peter Cundill's wise and frequently funny reflections are more important than ever. In a seamlessly assembled narrative drawn from interviews, speeches, and exclusive access to the daily journal Cundill kept for forty-five years, Christopher Risso-Gill outlines Cundill's investment approach and provides accounts of his investments and the analytical process that led to their selection. A book for everyday investors as mu...

In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain's oldest commercial bank. Voted 'most admired bank', respected by competitors, applauded by investors and trusted by customers, it looked forward to the next three hundred. Less than 15 years later it was bust, reviled as part of the spectacular collapse of HBOS, the conglomerate it had joined. One of the high-profile victims of the credit crunch, its spectacular fall caused seismic shock waves throughout the financial world. What we...

Your superannuation is one of the biggest assets many of us will ever own, and it will play a critical role in our future plans. But do you know enough about your super, and are you in control of your investment?Control Your Own Super Fund enables you to take control of your financial future. Expert adviser Paul Clitheroe breaks through the confusion and changing laws of superannuation, and provides advice on how to get the most from your investment. He tackles all the com...

Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for €5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust. Fingleton earned over €2 million per year and built up a pension fund worth €27 million. But it was his loans to a small group of property developers and the way the society was mismanaged, under...

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is John Gapper's foray into the world of rogue traders.Unlike most bankers, they are household names: Nick Leeson of Barings, Jerome Kerviel of Societe Generale, John Rusnak of Allied Irish Bank. And now the 31 year-old Kweku Adoboli, who allegedly ran up $2.3bn in losses at UBS. These are the men who have bought banks to th...

Using insider knowledge to reveal the tricks of the trade, Zak Mir’s 101 Charts for Trading Success is the essential guide that explains the most complex set ups in the market.Charting provides a clear way of predicting price action and hence gaining riches. Executed correctly using Zak’s tricks, charting is a way of delivering high probability percentage trades and investments that remove the task of trawling through company accounts, financial ratios, and interviewing me...

If we have learnt anything from recent economic upheavals, it's that, rightly or wrongly, bankers get big bonuses. Avaricious stereotypes aside, people don't get money for nothing. So what exactly do they do to earn this level of financial reward? Few people really know - least of all themselves. There's no magic trick that turns someone into a City superstar. It's often not the cleverest of the most hard-working who hit the big time - it's the people who listen, learn and understand that ...

John Lee, DL FCA is one of the UK’s leading private investors and wrote the My Portfolio column in the Financial Times for 14 years. As John Lee he was a Conservative MP for Nelson and Colne from 1979 to 1983 and then for Pendle until 1992. As Lord Lee of Trafford he now sits as a Liberal Democrat peer in the House of Lords where his interests, apart from investments, include defence, tourism, trade and industry.