• Principles: Life and Work

    #1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made mor... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501124021
    • ASIN: 1501124021
    • ISBN: 1501124021
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • TAIL RISK HEDGING: Creating Robust Portfolios for Volatile Markets

    "TAIL RISKS" originate from the failure of mean reversion and the idealized bell curve of asset returns, which assumes that highly probable outcomes occur near the center of the curve and that unlikely occurrences, good and bad, happen rarely, if at all, at either "tail" of the curve. Ever since the global financial crisis, protecting investments against these severe tail events has become a priority for investors and money managers, but it is something Vineer Bhansali and his team at PIMCO have been doing for over a decade. In one of the first comprehensive and rigorous books ever written on ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0071791752
    • ASIN: 0071791752
    • ISBN: 0071791752
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

  • Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

    Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance ― Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific changes for elevating performance to the best practice services level providing high quality service at low cost and most important, it guides the improvement process.

    • ASIN: 0387332111
    • ASIN: 0387332111
    • ISBN: 0387332111
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • The Investment Think Tank: Theory, Strategy, and Practice For Advisers

    The best investment practitioners, the ones who get results, rely not just on their instincts and experience but on the insights of the trailblazers in their field—the people who interpret, challenge, and even devise the strategies and tools that shape investment management. But when you're in the trenches—serving clients and running a business—the voices at the front can have trouble getting through, and you may sometimes wonder if your methods are as current as your clients deserve. Strategies continue to be explored, and tactics can change almost as quickly as the markets. What's the ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 157660165X
    • ASIN: 157660165X
    • ISBN: 157660165X
    • Brand: Brand: Bloomberg Press
    • Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press

  • Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff (Bloomberg Book 158)

    An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis The collapse of America's credit markets in 2008 is quite possibly the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history. Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff is the story of Bill Ackman's six-year campaign to warn that the $2.5 trillion bond insurance business was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Branded a fraud by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and investigated by Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ackman later made his investors more than $1 billio... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B003E8AK82
    • ASIN: B003E8AK82
    • Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press

  • Reconsidering Funds of Hedge Funds: The Financial Crisis and Best Practices in UCITS, Tail Risk, Performance, and Due Diligence

    How will the funds of hedge funds (FoHF) business have to change to survive in the wake of the 2008-2012 financial crisis? This new research provides valuable insight. Reconsidering Funds of Hedge Funds presents the first comprehensive views of UCITS as well as recent trends in due diligence, risk management, and hedge fund deaths and survivors. The book contains original chapters by 22 academics and 16 hedge fund professionals, and includes two sections on performance: one that looks at UCITS FoHF and one that deals with traditional FoHF performance. Most chapters examine aspects of the 2008-... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0124016995
    • ASIN: 0124016995
    • ISBN: 9780124016996
    • Brand: Brand: Academic Press
    • Manufacturer: Academic Press

  • Penny Stocks: How to Trade and Invest in Penny Stocks to Achieve Financial Freedom

    Americans do best when they are on the frontier. We have a spirit within ourselves that drives us towards untapped markets, to seek opportunity and fortune. In the world of stocks and investments, penny stocks truly are the last frontier for small investors. It is here where high frequently trading machines and well leveraged investors have not yet taken hold. It is truly the last bastion for the individual trader that does not have access to large amounts of capital.Whether you have had a passing interest in the stock market, or have dabbled in it yourself in the past, I offer the tools and s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B06XD1YQGC
    • ASIN: B06XD1YQGC

  • Hedge Fund Market Wizards : Entrepreneurial Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Microworkz

    "Hedge Fund Market Wizards will be a modern day sequel to the highly successful Market Wizards and New Market Wizards written over 20 years ago. These two earlier volumes have become classics in the investment

    • UPC: 19695554

  • What Hedge Funds Really Do : An Introduction to Portfolio Management

    When I managed a hedge fund in the late 1990s, computer-based trading was a mysterious technique only available to the largest hedge funds and institutional trading desks. We've come a long way since then. With

    • UPC: 53288516

  • The Billionaire's Apprentice : The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund

    Depicts the collapse of a multi-billion dollar South Asian hedge fund due to insider trading and describes the case brought against them by the son of Indian immigrants who went up against the corporation's

    • UPC: 43296322

  • Diary of a Very Bad Year : Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

    "n + 1" Magazine, a New York literary magazine, presents a profoundly candid and captivating insider account of the economic crisis from an anonymous hedge fund

    • UPC: 13011648
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Option Trader's Hedge Fund : A Business Framework for Trading Equity and Index Options (Paperback)

    In this book, a hedge fund manager and an option trading coach show you how to earn steady, reliable income selling options by managing your option trades and running your option portfolio as a real

    • UPC: 198550019

  • More Money Than God : Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

    Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of 21st-century capitalism. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge

    • UPC: 15227965
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Practice Standard for Project Risk Management

    Written for project managers, project team members, supervisors, and stakeholders, this title outlines the principles of effective risk

    • UPC: 11994137
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Invisible Hands : Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

    Hedge fund managers who survived and profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it is time to rethink money

    • UPC: 29716691

  • The Little Book of Hedge Funds : What You Need to Know about Hedge Funds But the Managers Won't Tell You

    An accessible overview of hedge funds, from their historical origin, to their perceived effect on the global economy, to why individual investors should understand how they work, "The Little Book of Hedge Funds" is essential

    • UPC: 16216529

  • One Step Ahead : Private Equity and Hedge Funds After the Global Financial Crisis

    Never has there been such an appetite and desire to understand the financial institutions that govern us. But despite dominating international headlines, alternative investment vehicles including private equity and hedge funds remain elusive with few

    • UPC: 49619832
    • Rating: 3.667

  • Deepak Gurnani: How a "risk master" addresses hedge funds' "average" risk management

    Hedge Funds and Risks - Financial Markets by Yale University #15

    2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks