The match king: Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals

By:

Partnoy, Frank

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York PublicAffairs 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 272 pISBN:

9781586488123

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

364.1680924 P2M2

Summary: A nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Swedish émigré and notorious charmer Ivar Kreuger. Kreuger made his fortune in the 1920s by raising money from American investors to lend to European governments in exchange for match monopolies. After the collapse of 1929, he continued to make money. Then in 1932 he suddenly committed suicide. As his fraudulent schemes unraveled in the wake of his death, the so-called "Kreuger crash" began, bankrupting millions and leading to the enactment of the securities laws of 1933 and 1934.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Nagpur General Stacks	Non-fiction	364.1680 924 P2M2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMN-001266

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A nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Swedish émigré and notorious charmer Ivar Kreuger. Kreuger made his fortune in the 1920s by raising money from American investors to lend to European governments in exchange for match monopolies. After the collapse of 1929, he continued to make money. Then in 1932 he suddenly committed suicide. As his fraudulent schemes unraveled in the wake of his death, the so-called "Kreuger crash" began, bankrupting millions and leading to the enactment of the securities laws of 1933 and 1934.

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