Gervais Williams: 4 books
Fast Finance
Does the financial world allow social loafing?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Market liquidity is an essential feature of the stock market, so investors and corporates can transact as and when it suits them. A key priority for stock market operators is to ensure there are market participants with a wide range of different perspectives, which offer plentiful trading volumes....
The Retreat of Globalisation
Anticipating radical change in the culture of financial markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In The Retreat of Globalisation, award-winning fund manager Gervais Williams outlines why we are entering a period when the culture of financial markets will change more in three years than it has in the last 30. Globalisation has been running into headwinds for a while, but until recently few appreciated...
The Future is Small
Why AIM will be the world's best market beyond the credit boom
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In a world dominated by gigantism, the beauty of smallness hasn't had much of a look in. Yet beyond the credit boom, globalisation has been found wanting. This book confounds the consensus, as Williams' extraordinary factual data outlines why smallness offers an effective path for investors to explore...
Slow Finance
Why Investment Miles Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Thought-provoking and provocative, Slow Finance anticipates a profound change in public attitudes. It outlines how credit growth and globalisation have contributed to the excessive scale of the financial sector.
Just as the Slow Food movement represents a reaction to the food industry losing sight...