Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives goes to the heart of the arcane and
largely misunderstood world of derivative finance and makes it accessible to everyone-even
novice readers. Marthinsen takes us behind the scenes into the back alleyways of corporate
finance and derivative trading to provide a bird's-eye view of the most shocking financial
disasters of the past quarter century. The book draws on real-life stories to explain how
financial derivatives can be used to create or to destroy value. In an approachable
non-technical manner Marthinsen brings these financial derivatives situations to life fully
exploring the context of each event evaluating their outcomes and bridging the gap between
theory and practice.
