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Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants: Profits Whether Markets Rise or Fall

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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.

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.

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.