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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (17 April 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0470844779
ISBN-13: 978-0470844779
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.6 x 2.2 cm

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“Balanced, Constructive and instructive, this is an essential read for investors, portfolio managers and financial advisers.” (Financial World, July 2004)

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE HEDGE FUND BIBLE, 16 Jun 2003

By	Greg N. Gregoriou, Ph.D (Cand.) (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This book is a compendium of information on hedge funds starting with an instructional and basic introduction for both quantitative and qualitative investors. The first part explains in detail the basics, the legal environment, operational, and organizational structures of hedge funds. It also examines custodial and administration policies in various jurisdictions in European countries where some investment advisors of hedge funds are located. The chosen European setting is largely due to the explosion of hedge funds and hedge fund interest, which is the main engine of change in the equity finance landscape currently undergoing a revolution. The author dismisses several misinterpretations of the way hedge funds operate and contributes an impartial and comprehensive blend of both theoretical and practical underpinnings of global markets.
The second part goes into detail regarding the fundamental concepts needed to understand hedge fund strategies along with their potential positive and negative contributions to investment portfolios. It also thoroughly examines the statistical biases in hedge fund databases and indices. At the same time each chapter is supplemented with real world examples involving corporations and the use of hedge fund strategies. An overview of the major index providers is an added feature to inform investors how each database vendor has classified the hedge fund strategies and their different methods are examined. The various hedge fund strategies are presented in three chapters and an entire chapter is devoted to directional strategies such as global macro, sector, short sellers and managed futures.
In the third and final part, the author highlights the important aspects of including hedge funds in traditional portfolios, database differences, non-transparency, due diligence, selecting and monitoring hedge funds. The author clearly outlines the benefits for investors using asset allocation and how it can be applied towards hedge funds. The second to last chapter of the text educates the reader on how he can properly navigate, identify and select hedge fund managers through the maze of almost 6,000 hedge funds. Of note, the chapter on funds of hedge funds describes the benefits of investing in these products, what the author calls "meta diversification" and discusses portfolio optimization along with what the future holds.
Capital guaranteed products are addressed in one of the final chapters and the advantages of these new structured products often referred to as capital protected notes are explained. These products permit investors to get back a specified portion of capital they fully invested, enabling them to maximize their positions in hedge funds. Due to the recent creation of capital guaranteed products is sure to make the hedge fund industry grow even at a faster pace and it seems that institutional investors have bought this new idea. These new products will allow for equity style returns with less volatility and the security of cash.
The final chapter deals with multifactor models, Sharpe style analysis and Value at risk.
The author concludes with a chapter on advanced quantitative topics and follows this with an appendix on returns and risk statistics of hedge funds. This book brings the reader completely up to date with the latest developments in the hedge fund industry. The elaborate bibliography and over 60 websites found at the end of the book is the icing on the cake.
This gem of a book can serve as a handbook and a practical guide to the hedge fund industry. LHabitant has done a superb job and has provided all investors, portfolio managers, as well as professional financial advisers with a complete one stop hedge fund shopping text. It is the ultimate book about the hedge fund industry.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, easy to read Intro to Hede Funds, 4 Jun 2002

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I found the book to be extremely interesting and easy to read which is really uncommon for finance literature. Thr author seems to be an expert in the area.

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