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

ISBN: 978-0-470-55272-8

July 2009

224 pages

Description
A timely guide to uncovering financial fraud

2008 and 2009 will be remembered for bear markets, a global credit crunch, and some of the largest investment scams ever. But these scams are nothing new, they've been repeated throughout history, and there will certainly be more to come. But the good news is fraudsters often follow the same basic playbook. Learn the playbook, and know how to ask the right questions, and financial fraud can be easy to detect and simple to avoid.

In How to Smell a Rat, trusted financial expert Ken Fisher provides you with an inside's view on how to spot financial disasters before you become a part of them. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource takes an engaging look at recent and historic examples of fraudsters, how they operated, and how they can be easily avoided. Fisher also shows you the quick, identifiable features of financial frauds and arms you with the questions to ask when assessing a money manager.

  • Prepares you to identify and avoid financials cams that could instantly destroy your wealth
  • Contains examples that highlight how financial frauds are committed
  • Provides questions everyone should ask before entering any investment endeavor

With How to Smell a Rat as your guide, you'll learn how to protect your interests and assets from unnecessary losses.

About the Author
Ken Fisher (Woodside, CA) is best known for his prestigious “Portfolio Strategy” column, where his 21 year tenure of high profile calls makes him the sixth longest running columnist in Forbes’ 86 year history.   Ken is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, a multi-product money management firm. The firm serves both high net worth individuals and institutions across the US, UK, and Canada. Often published in professional and scholarly journals, his research has spawned a multitude of new fundamental concepts that are now adopted into today’s core financial curriculum. Ken is a regular in the media and has appeared in most major American finance or business periodicals. He also writes a regular column for Bloomberg Money in the UK.

Lara Hoffmans is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. After a brief acting and comedy career in NYC, Lara found her way to finance where she specializes in managing high net worth clients. She is the Senior Content Editor at Fisher Investments, and coauthored with Ken the bestsellers The Only Three Questions that Count and The Ten Roads to Riches.