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    How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
    How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
    How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
    Audiobook6 hours

    How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud

    Written by Ken Fisher and Lara W. Hoffmans

    Narrated by Scott Thomsen

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    In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher takes an engaging and informative look at recent and historic examples of fraudsters, how they operated, and how they can be easily avoided. Fisher shows readers the quick, identifiable features of potential financial fraudsters.Readers will learn the questions to ask when assessing a money manager and how to spot red flags.There should be a premium for integrity. Asking the right questions and looking for the right setups goes a long way toward finding a firm that will protect your interests and your assets. Trusted financial expert and bestselling author Ken Fisher will help readers avoid would-be embezzlers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateAug 26, 2009
    ISBN9781615730308
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    Ken Fisher

    Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious ""Portfolio Strategy"" column in Forbes Magazine, the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' ninety-year history. He is also founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent global money management firm with over $45 billion in assets. He is the award-winning author of numerous scholarly articles and has published four previous major finance books, including 2006's New York Times bestseller The Only Three Questions That Count. He has a weekly column in Handelsblatt, Germany's leading finance daily.

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    • 3/5
      I'm not so much interested in investment banking as fraud, but this book was interesting anyway. It's really obvious that Fisher is a magazine columnist first, author second, because the book was subdivided into small sections and repeated itself regularly the way listicle writers seem to. Most of these lessons were ones anyone could learn watching an episode of Leverage (♥), though, so I'd recommend two or three other books on fraud/theft/counterfeiting before this one.
    • 3/5
      I'm not so much interested in investment banking as fraud, but this book was interesting anyway. It's really obvious that Fisher is a magazine columnist first, author second, because the book was subdivided into small sections and repeated itself regularly the way listicle writers seem to. Most of these lessons were ones anyone could learn watching an episode of Leverage (♥), though, so I'd recommend two or three other books on fraud/theft/counterfeiting before this one.