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- catalog abstract ""Getting Started in Hedge Funds provides investors with a complete and highly accessible introduction to hedge funds: what they are, how they started, how they work, and who manages them. Written by a financial writer and Wall Streeter who knows this world from the inside, this book: explores the industry in its entirety - from $2 million to $2 billion operations; tells the story of hedge funds from their inception in 1949 to today; profiles the strategies of both up-and-coming fund managers and heavyweights like Soros, Robertson, and Steinhardt; develops guidelines for choosing a hedge fund using returns, performance, and risk; and shows smaller investors how to get in on the action."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11571634.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Getting Started in Hedge Funds provides investors with a complete and highly accessible introduction to hedge funds: what they are, how they started, how they work, and who manages them. Written by a financial writer and Wall Streeter who knows this world from the inside, this book: explores the industry in its entirety - from $2 million to $2 billion operations; tells the story of hedge funds from their inception in 1949 to today; profiles the strategies of both up-and-coming fund managers and heavyweights like Soros, Robertson, and Steinhardt; develops guidelines for choosing a hedge fund using returns, performance, and risk; and shows smaller investors how to get in on the action."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-199) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Midas Traders -- Ch. 1. Hedge Fund Basics. The Near Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management. A Brief History of Hedge Funds. The Current State of the Hedge Fund Industry. Alfred Winslow Jones -- The Original Hedge Fund Manager -- Ch. 2. How Hedge Funds Operate. Starting a Hedge Fund. Hedge Fund Regulations and Structures. How Hedge Funds Use Leverage. Patriarchs of the Hedge Fund World. Hedge Funds Take All the Heat. George Soros -- The World's Greatest Investor -- Ch. 3. The Managers. Steve Watson. Hanya Kim. Peter Faulkner. Richard Van Home and Guy Elliot. Dale Jacobs. Guy Wyser-Pratte. F. Martin Koenig. Bill Michaelcheck. Nancy Havens-Hasty. Steve Cohen -- Ch. 4. Hedge Fund Investing. An Investment Adviser.".
- catalog extent "x, 209 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0471316962 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Getting started in series".
- catalog isPartOf "Getting started in".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
- catalog subject "332.64/5 21".
- catalog subject "HG4530 .S837 2000".
- catalog subject "Hedge funds.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Midas Traders -- Ch. 1. Hedge Fund Basics. The Near Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management. A Brief History of Hedge Funds. The Current State of the Hedge Fund Industry. Alfred Winslow Jones -- The Original Hedge Fund Manager -- Ch. 2. How Hedge Funds Operate. Starting a Hedge Fund. Hedge Fund Regulations and Structures. How Hedge Funds Use Leverage. Patriarchs of the Hedge Fund World. Hedge Funds Take All the Heat. George Soros -- The World's Greatest Investor -- Ch. 3. The Managers. Steve Watson. Hanya Kim. Peter Faulkner. Richard Van Home and Guy Elliot. Dale Jacobs. Guy Wyser-Pratte. F. Martin Koenig. Bill Michaelcheck. Nancy Havens-Hasty. Steve Cohen -- Ch. 4. Hedge Fund Investing. An Investment Adviser.".
- catalog title "Getting started in hedge funds / Daniel A. Strachman.".
- catalog type "text".