What Hedge Funds Really Do: An Introduction to Portfolio Management
Philip J. Romero; Tucker Balch
ISBN 10: 1631570897 ISBN 13: 9781631570896
Published by Business Expert Press, 2014
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Synopsis:
This book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies.
What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, which permits hedge fund managers to charge exceptionally high fees. While the details of each fund’s approach are carefully guarded trade secrets, this book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies.
As an instructional text, it will assist two types of students:
- Economics and finance students interested in understanding what “quants” do, and
- Software specialists interested in applying their skills to programming trading systems.
What Hedge Funds Really Do provides a needed complement to journalistic accounts of the hedge fund industry, to deepen the understanding of nonspecialist readers such as policy makers, journalists, and individual investors.
The book is organized in modules to allow different readers to focus on the elements of this topic that most interest them. Its authors are a fund practitioner and a computer scientist (Balch), in collaboration with a public policy economist and finance academic (Romero).
About the Authors:
Dr. Philip J. Romero was an economist, policy analyst, band applied mathematician, and former California chief economist. He was Dean and also was Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business prior to his passing.
Dr. Tucker Balch is a former F-15 pilot, Associate Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, and co-founder of Lucena Research, Inc., an investment research firm. Dr. Balch was one of the first to bring instruction on quantitative analysis to a worldwide audience via his Massive Online Open Course.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: What Hedge Funds Really Do: An Introduction ...
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good