- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Bloomberg Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1576600602
- ISBN-13: 978-1576600603
- Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 14.8 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,607,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An essential book for all those investors curious about alternative investment strategies."
- Financial Times
"This book tells all. It explains how they work. This is a serious and important book on the subject and must be read by any serious investor."
-Traders World magazine
"For investors who want to learn about hedge funds from A to Z, this book is a must-read. For those who think they already know about the approximately 4500 hedge funds with close to $300 billion in assets, read this book and learn what you don't know."
-Peter Morgan Kash
Senior Managing Director, Paramount Capital Asset Management,
Member of the Board, Hedge Fund Association &
Adjunct Professor, Wharton School of Business
"In light of the dramatic increase of investments in hedge funds, the recent media attention and the widespread need to better understand these complex strategies, Joe Nicholas has created a key investor guide to hedge funds, including the unique and valuable perspective of having top hedge fund managers describe what they do in their own words."
-Timothy J. Leach
Former Chief Investment Officer, Wells Fargo Private Client Services
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Investing in Hedge Funds provides a clear, practical approach to what is considered a complicated and often misunderstood investment topic. A concise guide to understanding hedge funds-what they are, how to invest, risk and return, and investment strategies. Includes sample portfolios, examples, and an appendix full of additional information. Designed for professionals and sophisticated investors, this book identifies and clarifies hedge fund myths and misconceptions. A timely, non-technical look at an important investment area.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Easy to read overview of hedge fund industry. I especially appreciated the strategy-specific description and industry growth and performance statistics. Also noticed that appendix statistics are updated on their internet site.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A good book overall
8 Nov 1999
Format:Hardcover
In the recent flood of often useless books aimed at investors this book stands out as a little gift. It provides a clear and detailed introduction to hedge funds useful to investors and to anybody with an interest in understanding how hedge funds work. The book is math-free, but thinking is not optional. I like the summary of hedge fund strategies and the description of their returns and weights in the universe of hedge funds. Unfortunately, one has to hope that the chapter and the charts will be updated frequently for they will be soon obsolete. As this book definitely deserves to see more editions, I hope that the author will go through the trouble to include both more examples and more details for each of the eleven strategies. That would definitely make the book more appealing to those readers with sophisticated backgrounds and useful to be used in classrooms as well.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Only for the most basic hdege fund newbie
15 Feb 2004
Format:Hardcover
This book had a lot of promising reviews, but what a deception! The typography is very bad, some pages are writen so big that 2 pages could be condensed into 1. The overall layout looks like it was taken from a glorified powerpoint presentation...
The book reviews different strategies hedge funds can employ in one chapter. Thereafter one complete chapter is devoted to each strategy. However, you don't learn much more by reading the detailed chapter. If you have even a basic understanding of different hedge fund techniques such as market-neutral, merger arbitrage or global macro, then you will probably not learn anything new from this book.
The more interesting part of the book is the last part where the author tries to forecast where the industry is going. However, this is full of known truths such as "hedge funds will continue to exist and take on more importance"... duh! Maybe the book is simply too old and should be revised?
Don't waste your time and money on this one.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A Good Read!
20 Mar 2001
Format:Hardcover
While this book is meant to serve as an introduction to the complex world of hedge funds, hedge fund managers and hedge fund investors (in short, the hedge fund dynamic), it is decidedly not of the For Dummies family that currently dominates the do-it-yourself investment section of the book store. This is a highly sophisticated look at what has become one of the most exciting sectors of the investment world. If you have some knowledge of finance and its terminology, and you want to know what a hedge fund is, what kinds of strategies most hedge fund managers use and whether or not you'd want to or be able to invest in hedge funds, we ... recommend this highly specific book to you. On the other hand, if you just want to gain some insights into the investment world, you'd be better off picking up the financial section of the newspaper. Hedge funds are serious and so is Joseph G. Nicholas' book. (... note: Despite the 1999 copyright date, the book makes no reference to Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, nearly bringing about a global financial crisis.)
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