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David Bertram Gill : Tales of a Financial Frontiersman (Sixty Years: 1952-2011)

Signature Book Printing, 2012

ISBN 9780578103037

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T1 - A hardcover book SIGNED by David Bertram Gill on a label adhered on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, some scattered scratches, rubbing and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book cocked, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered light stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Tales of a Financial Frontiersman (Sixty Years: 1952-2011) by David Bertram Gill, privately published in Maryland on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay 2012. 9.25"x6.25", 602 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Financial frontiersman? In the early 1950s, many called financial markets, in particular stock markets, a form of Wild West. And the farther away from home, the wilder they could be. This book provides a front row account of the unimaginable makeover of our financial system since the Second World War. As a young inexperienced investment banker in Canada, David Gill's bosses considered his ideas and schemes "wild" ... and the same when he had an opportunity to put the lessons of those early years into practice in Washington, DC as an international bureaucrat. It turned out that the conventional ideas missed the point of the massive changes that were underway in which the "frontier" went from irrelevant periphery to critical mainstream. In the words of Dean Acheson, David felt lucky to be "present at the creation" and have the opportunity to see the experiments and initiatives he undertook at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) come to fruition. This is about the re-engineering of the financial world; about the people involved; about the struggle against the many supporters of the status quo in many countries and markets; and about David's perspective and role in all of this. Starting with David's experiences in investment banking from 1952 to 1971, the book then moves to his public sector years (1971-1988) and his heading-up the IFC's new Capital Markets Department (CMD), an initiative that would help build financial market infrastructures in some 60 developing countries and establish over 90 private financial companies in them. Investing in emerging markets today is possible, in no small measure, due to the work of the CMD. For the next 16 years after IFC, it was back in business: three years (1988-1991) with Batterymarch Financial Management in Boston, getting the firm and its clients into emerging markets; and, from 1992 on, as an independent director of or advisor to some 40 assorted banks, securities firms, investment funds, asset management companies and development institutions ... quite unlike the golden years of most "pensioners." The book ends where the life of this financial frontiersman began ... with David's formative years in Canada and England; at Cambridge and in the Royal Navy; and finally back in Canada at the University of Toronto and in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. As David says: "Over the years, all three of our children and several friends have asked me what I did when I went to work. It seems I never did a very good job of explaining. So this is my attempt to make up for that - and also explain how I got to the starting point. The best I managed for the kids was to say I was a financial engineer. They understood engineers built things and fixed things. That's what I did in financial markets.". Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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