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"This is a landmark book on quantitative approaches to hedge funds. All those with a stake in building hedge fund portfolios will highly profit from this exhaustive guide. A must read for all those involved in hedge fund investing." –Pascal Botteron, Ph.D., Head of Hedge Fund Product Development, Pictet Asset Management
"François–Serge Lhabitant′s second book will prove to be a bestseller too – just like Hedge Funds: Myths and Limits. He actually manages to make quantitative analysis ′approachable′– even for those less gifted with numbers. This book, like its predecessor, includes an unprecedented mix of common sense and sophisticated technique. A fantastic guide to the ′nuts and bolts′ of hedge fund analysis and a ′must′ for every serious investor." –Barbara Rupf Bee, Head of Alternative Fund Investment Group, HSBC Private Bank, Switzerland
"An excellent book, providing deep insights into the complex quantitative analysis of hedge funds in the most lucid and intuitive manner. A must–have supplement to Lhabitant′s first book dealing with the mystical and fascinating world of hedge funds. Highly recommended!" –Vikas Agarwal, Assistant Professor of Finance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
"Lhabitant has done it again! Whereas most books on hedge funds are nothing more than glorified marketing brochures, Lhabitant′s new book tells it how it is in reality. Accessible and understandable but at the same time thorough and critical." –Harry M. Kat, Ph.D., Professor of Risk Management and Director Alternative Investment Research Centre, Cass Business School, City University
"Lhabitant′s latest work on hedge funds yet again delivers on some ambitious promises. Successfully bridging theory and practice in a highly accessible manner, those searching for a thorough yet unintimidating introduction to the quantitative methods of hedge fund analysis will not be disappointed." –Christopher L. Culp, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago and Principal, Chicago Partners LLC
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Written by an author experienced as both a practitioner and academic, Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights provides a step–by–step introduction on how quantitative tools can be applied to hedge fund investing. Divided into three parts, the book begins with coverage of the measurement of risk–adjusted returns for hedge funds. The focus is not on determining whether hedge funds outperform or under–perform traditional markets, but rather on understanding the real meaning of performance statistics used by hedge fund managers and quantitative analysts. The second part of the book examines the risk exposures of hedge funds, and subsequently, their return drivers. The final part of the book enters the field of portfolio construction and asset allocation.
Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights is essential reading for finance practitioners, including portfolio managers, qualitative and quantitative analysts, consultants and investors – both institutional and private. It could also prove useful to students of finance who want a better understanding of what goes on in the hedge fund world.
While their mainstream popularity seems to be a new phenomenon, hedge funds have been around for more than 50 years. Read the first page
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I must agree with another reviewer here, the title is slightly misleading, I wouldn't say it's very quantitative, but that all depends on where your coming from. Like other adjectives in titles, "introduction", "advanced", "further", "technical", for some basic risk return profiles is "quant" for others it's light.
But that aside, what I really liked were the chapters on performance fees which gave me an insight into how hedge funds charge their clients. Another gem were the chapters on the different hedge fund strategies: what they are called, basic principles, risk return profiles and which groups they fall under.
As someone dealing with hedge funds I found this book really enhanced my understanding of the industry.
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