Financial Times Guide to the Financial Markets (Financial Times...

"The Financial Times Guide to the Financial Markets provides a broad yet firm understanding of financial markets. It covers a wide range of key up-to-date topics including useful economic analysis of the financial crisis. The guide uses up-to-date statistics as well as offering clear explanations on the technical aspects of banking and finance."
Comprehensive and clear, The Financial Times Guide to the Financial Markets is the ultimate guide to the instruments, institutions and products that make up our global financial system. Using examples and case studies, Glen Arnold covers everything you need to know to gain a thorough understanding of modern finance and how the markets work. This easy to read, jargon-busting book includes:
An overview of how the financial industry really operates and the effects its behaviour and crises have on you A comprehensive run down of the securities available and how to use them Comparisons between the major financial centres of the world What the future holds for the financial markets.
"Essential reading for those who work in finance, those who want to work in finance, and those who want to know what people in the City are doing with their money."
Jamie Lowry, Fund Manager, Schroders Investment Management.