Hedge funds are one of the fastest growing sectors in the investment. This is the definitive guide for investors seeking the inside track on high performance. It demystifies these funds and their managers. It explains the strategies and techniques that they deploy and shows investors how they can take advantage of these high performance investment vehicles. The book examines the history, structure, operation and impact of hedge funds and offers insights into the strategies of key players such as George Soros, with detailed case studies.
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Hedge funds are one of the fastest growing sectors in the investment world, and yet a shroud of secrecy still surrounds their operation. To many outsiders it appears that a network of immensly powerful hedge fund managers manipulate the world's markets at will, achieving spectacular returns for themselves at somebody else's expense.
The truth behind this image is that hedge funds are managed by the most skilful and talented investment managers around today. They practice analytic and thorough investment techniques which deliver returns about which investors want to know more.
Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants will demystify these funds and their managers; explain the strategies and techniques that they deploy, and show investors how they can take advantage of these high-performance investment vehicles.
Also included are interviews with four top hedge fund managers, responsible for the investment management of billions of dollars. THese profiles will give you a unique insight into how the ideas discussed in the book actually work in practice.
Gives you the inside track on high performance.
Written by the European Editor of the premeir US hedge fund newsletter, this book: takes you inside the secretive world of hedge funds, and examines their history, structure and operation and impact on the markets offers unique insights into the strategies of key hedge fund players with detailed case studies shows how to invest in hedge funds and "funds of funds", outlining the risks and rewards examines the future of hedge funds, and the scope for further investment opportunities.
About the Author
Beverly Chandler is an investment writer of some 12 years standing. This is her third investment book. She was founder and editor of Managed Derivatives magazine, and organizer of the magazine's associated conferences. She has also been the European editor of the International Herald Tribune's International Fund Investment and the European AssociateEditor for MAR/Hedge.
During her career she has worked as a freelance financialjournalist for most of the financial press in the UK. In 1993, Beverly won the Rose-Baratz Journalism Award. Latterly, Beverly has been writing almost exclusively about alternative investment management.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best guide to hedge funds for laymen and investors alike,
By A Customer
This review is from: Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants: Profits Whether Markets Rise or Fall (Hardcover)
Investing With the Hedge Fund Giants, is a very reader friendly tome devoted to explaining the jargon and the often arcane practices to be found in the world of hedge fund investment.Despite the many column inches devoted to hedge funds in newspapers, there are many myths and abject inaccuracies which are frequently repeated in the broad media. Hedge fund expert, Beverley Chandler is to be applauded for her reader friendly and insightful guide to the complex world of hedge funds. This is a great book not just for investors looking to learn about hedge funds but also lay readers who would like to know more about the business of the likes of George Soros.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hedge Fund Giants,
By Jonathan Fisher (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants: Profits Whether Markets Rise or Fall (Hardcover)
I was rather disappointed in this book. A number of key issues notably surrounding risk / valuations / pricing were only touched upon. Too many graphs. Finally to spend considerable space "interviewing" key fund managers, I felt added little to the overall subject.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing more than a prospectus for hedge funds,
This review is from: Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants: Profits Whether Markets Rise or Fall (Hardcover)
I was deeply disappointed. I supposed this book could tell me a lot how "successful" hedge funds operated and profited (I inferred so from the word "Giants" on the title of the book and the back cover which promised to explain the strategies and techniques they employ). However, all I could read was plenty of charts, tables and sales talks, very general in nature, the stuff one could get from any hedge fund sales brochure displayed inside a bank.
If you wanna know why successful hedge funds profit so, you will be absolutely disappointed. If you wanna select a fund or two from the sea of choices nowadays which suit your investment objectives (profit making for sure) and risk appetite, you will be very disappointed as well. In the rare case you need to write a sales brochure for a hedge fund that you need to put everything positive but vague, it's for you.
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