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Hedge hunters : hedge fund masters on the rewards, the risk, and the reckoning
Title:
Hedge hunters : hedge fund masters on the rewards, the risk, and the reckoning
Author:
Burton, Katherine, 1962-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomberg Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
xiv, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
"Hedge Hunters offers a rare look at the hedge fund industry's top performers and introduces the most talented up-and-coming or undiscovered managers, handpicked by the masters themselves. With candor and detail, the most successful hedge fund managers reveal their personal journeys, their strategies for producing outstanding returns, characteristics that make a great investor, and attributes most important to the job"--Provided by publisher.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
What it takes to be the best / Mark Yusko -- A passion for performance / Michael Steinhardt -- Reasoned and unrattled / John Armitage -- An intolerance for losing / Marc Lasry -- A grip on risk / Craig Effron -- A stock picker, pure and hardly simple / Lee Ainslie -- The big time in small caps / Bernay Box -- The imperturbable oilman / Boone Pickens -- A place at the table / Brian Bradshaw, David Meaney, Michael Ross, and Alex Szewczyk -- Doyens of debt / Josh Friedman and Mitch Julis -- Leaving little to chance / Jeffrey Schachter and Burton Weinstein -- The Phoenix phenomenon / Dwight Anderson -- Fruits of firsthand knowledge / Roberto Mignone -- Mastering a changing market / Bruce Ritter -- Encores / Julian Robertson -- Out on the short-selling limb / Jim Chanos -- A manager's manager / Richard Perry -- Newfound restraint / Daniel Loeb.
ISBN:
9781576602454
Format :
Book