Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights (The Wiley Finance Series) (Hardcover)by François-Serge Lhabitant



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This primer on the analysis of hedge funds offers investors a more quantitative understanding of this topic, providing a complete guide to portfolio techniques, asset allocation, performance measurement and product selection in the alternative investment world.

• Hedge funds are the fastest growing sector of the financial industry, and yet the least understood, by market professionals.
• Examines and popularises the results of several quantitative studies that have so far been confirmed within academic circles.
• Written by a highly regarded and impartial financial practitioner and academic, this will provide an excellent follow-on to Hedge Funds: Myths & Limits (Wiley 2002).
  

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Hedge funds are the fastest growing sector of the financial industry, and possibly the least understood. In this book, as a follow-on to Hedge Funds: Myths and Limits, the author provides a primer on the quantitative nature of these alternative investments. 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.

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Product Details Hardcover: 354 pages Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 23, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 047085667X ISBN-13: 978-0470856673