Managing a Hedge Fund

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Summary: Hedge Fund and Investment Books
Review: Hedge funds can be arcane and complicated investments, and difficult to understand. Black is able to sift through all the complexity and lay the "parts on the table" for analysis. At a time when the interest in alternative investments is gaining momentum, readers of this book will benefit from Black's excellent guidance on the subject. It provides in-depth background for investors who want to enter the alternatives world, and entrepreneurial investment manangers that are ready to start their own hedge funds.

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Summary: Hedge Fund and Investment Books
Review: Hedge funds can be arcane and complicated investments, and difficult to understand. Black is able to sift through all the complexity and lay the "parts on the table" for analysis. At a time when the interest in alternative investments is gaining momentum, readers of this book will benefit from Black's excellent guidance on the subject. It provides in-depth background for investors who want to enter the alternatives world, and entrepreneurial investment manangers that are ready to start their own hedge funds.

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Summary: Very practical and highly referred!
Review: I read this book and found it to be a good complement to all the bits and pieces of the hedge fund industry floating around. You can never find a complete guide but this book puts it all together. My fiance (N.Fok) actually learned from Keith Black (now a professor at IIT, a university in Chicago that is one of the highly rated financial engineering programs). My fiance used to rave about his professor by himself. Now I rave with him. I work at a buy side shop and found this book to be very helpful in understanding strategies and the background of hedge funds.

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Summary: Either read this book or fall behind.
Review: Its clear now that hedge funds and alternative investment strategies are the wave of the future. The billions of dollars invested to date are just the tip of the iceberg. So, you either learn the material in this book or fall behind. It's that simple. Black's thorough look at the burgeoning hedge fund industry provides a wealth of information on investment strategies, performance evaluation and regulation ( both U.S. and offshore ) in a way that is at the same time very informative and very readable. Regardless of your area of expertise, the breadth of this book will undoubtedly provide tremendous value.