- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Business Plus Imports (5 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446503894
- ISBN-13: 978-0446503891
- Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 2.4 x 23.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,237,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Explains to the average investor how the extremely lucrative world of hedge funds works, and how anyone can benefit from this insider expertise
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With over one trillion dollars in assets and still growing, the hedge fund industry is one of the main forces dictating world financial markets. The amount of money the managers of these funds make for themselves and their investors is now reported on business shows and major news programmes on all continents. But until recently, the typical investor was kept out of this potentially very lucrative investing tool due to the large capital requirements and the volatility involved. Now, Wayne P. Weddington III, a senior portfolio manager at one of the world's top hedge funds, explains how anyone can join the ranks of the wealthiest investors and profit from hedge funds. He breaks down the complicated rules, provides invaluable resources, offers real-life examples, and most importantly, he lays out the potential risks involved with these funds. Weddington's anecdotal and practical investment guide will show that anyone can create a hedge strategy that will reap amazing financial benefits.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Save your time; This book could have been titled, "Investing 101"
27 May 2009
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book with the expectation that it would teach me the behind the scenes details of hedge funds and also provide the real tools needed to start one, but in the end it is just a very high level guide to macro investment themes, diversification, and elementary valuation. If you have a finance background I would strongly suggest passing on this one and pick a different, more appropriate, book; you learned more in your introduction to finance class. Also, if you are under 30 I would also stay clear as you have probably learned more from watching Cramer on CNBC or just thru general internet use and blog reading. In this book, there is an entire chapter devoted to yahoo finance and where to find financial data and what it means. I am sorry, but if you don't even know where to find financial data or what an ETF is (which means you have probably never really invested), you should not be worried about "starting your own hedge fund" as this book misleads. You should stick with your day job and keep getting your stocks from "Money" and other sources with conflicting interests.
Of 10 chapters, I found the final 2 the only semi useful ones. The final chapter was more for entertainment value, but it did provide a valuable reminder that everything in life is zero sum and there is no place more zero sum than wall street. The 2nd to last chapter provides some hedge fund strategies and high level differences between them with a couple of examples.
I am sorry, but I really expected more from this book and I can't say I really took one thing away from it. I kept waiting for the "meat", but it never came. It is clear that the author targeted the largest audience possible, which would be non-financial main street who are just hearing the term "hedge fund" for the first time.
Disclaimer: I have a finance degree, a finance job, and have worked in a hedge fund before as a bottom of the barrel analyst, so maybe I expected too much, but I really didn't learn anything from this book and don't think anyone with any sort of finance background will either.
Of 10 chapters, I found the final 2 the only semi useful ones. The final chapter was more for entertainment value, but it did provide a valuable reminder that everything in life is zero sum and there is no place more zero sum than wall street. The 2nd to last chapter provides some hedge fund strategies and high level differences between them with a couple of examples.
I am sorry, but I really expected more from this book and I can't say I really took one thing away from it. I kept waiting for the "meat", but it never came. It is clear that the author targeted the largest audience possible, which would be non-financial main street who are just hearing the term "hedge fund" for the first time.
Disclaimer: I have a finance degree, a finance job, and have worked in a hedge fund before as a bottom of the barrel analyst, so maybe I expected too much, but I really didn't learn anything from this book and don't think anyone with any sort of finance background will either.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A Great Book for todays markets...
23 Jun 2009
Format:Hardcover
The point of this book is to provide the average reader with the tools to start their own hedge fund. I have an MBA in Finance but I actually thought this was one of the best financial books I have read. It is relatively easy to take a complex subject and keep it complex. It took a somewhat complex topic and made it simple. That is the art. In this respect I would compare it favorably to the 'The little book that beats the market' by Joel Greenblatt. A must read!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great book to finally understand Hedge Funds
15 Jun 2009
Format:Hardcover
This book is GREAT!! Finally it's possible to understand how Hedge Funds work. I gave it to all my finance students.
No need to look for another book on Hedge Funds, this is the one!!
Thanks mister Weddington, finally someone got it right!
No need to look for another book on Hedge Funds, this is the one!!
Thanks mister Weddington, finally someone got it right!
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