Scribner. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Scribner ISBN 0684197391 9780684197395 [US]

ISBN10: 0684197391, ISBN13: 9780684197395, [publisher: Simon and Schuster] Hardcover 352 pages. Dj worn In this fascinating insider's account, an American woman who became an investor alleges that irresponsibili ty, incompetence, greed, and fraud at Lloyd's, the world's most g lamorous insurance enterprise, have caused the company to lose $1 2 billion in the last ten years. Lloyd's of London is not simply an insurance company; it is a society comprising thirty thousand Names (roughly 10 percent of whom are Americans) - private indivi duals like Elizabeth Luessenhop who accepted the risk of unlimite d liability and pledged all their wealth to backing the insurance policies written by Lloyd's. The beauty was that the Names didn' t have to put up any money to receive their profit share. As long as the premium calculations were sound, everybody prospered. But the 1980s were bad years for Lloyd's - and for the Names who bac ked its business. It was also a time when the Society of Names gr ew by 50 percent to cover the disastrous losses the company was b eginning to incur. Risky Business, written with veteran financial writer Martin Mayer, is a detailed account of how the mismanagem ent of Lloyd's has affected thousands of American investors who, like Luessenhop, sought low-risk, long-term security. Luessenhop and Mayer take us inside a unique business institution and show u s that the ramifications of a possible Lloyd's ...

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(NY), Scribner's, (c. Date: 1995),, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Pages 352, octavo, hardcover, first printing. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Publicity material laid in. 012104A ISBN: 0684197391 1995. (NY), Scribner's, (c. 1995), ISBN 0684197391 9780684197395 [US]

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