Best Energy Hedge Funds - April 2024

Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street's Largest Hedge Fund Disaster

For readers of The Smartest Guys in the Room and When Genius Failed, the definitive take on Brian Hunter, John Arnold, Amaranth Advisors, and the largest hedge fund collapse in historyAt its peak, hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC had more than $9 billion in assets. A few weeks later, it completely collapsed. The disaster was largely triggered by one man: thirty-two-year-old hotshot trader Brian Hunter. His high-risk bets on natural gas prices bankrupted his firm and destroyed his career, while John Arnold, his rival at competitor fund Centaurus, emerged as the highest-paid trader on Wall Stree... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400068398
• ASIN: 1400068398
• ISBN: 9781400068395
• Manufacturer: Random House

Super Mind: How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation

The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times-bestselling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity, emotional resilience, and aptitude for success.Most of us believe that we live in only three states of consciousness: wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming. But there is so much more. In Super Mind, clinical psychiatrist and bestselling author Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., shows how the incredibly simple daily practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) can permanently improve your state of mind during the r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0152FG0T2
• ASIN: B0152FG0T2
• Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

Energy And Environmental Hedge Funds: The New Investment Paradigm (Wiley Finance)

• ASIN: B005UQCV06
• ASIN: B005UQCV06
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Introduction to Finance, Accounting, Modeling and Valuation

• ASIN: B01IAFNQ7U
• ASIN: B01IAFNQ7U

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally.This sure-to-make-headlines book is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 031265068X
• ASIN: 031265068X
• ISBN: 031265068X
• Brand: Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Investors are tempted daily by misleading or incomplete information. They may make a lucky bet, realize a sizable profit, and find themselves full of confidence. Their next high-stakes gamble might backfire, not only hitting them in the balance sheet but also taking a mental and emotional toll. Even veteran investors can be caught off guard: a news item may suddenly cause havoc for an industry they’ve invested in; crowd mentality among fellow investors may skew the market; a CEO may turn out to be unprepared to effectively guide a company. How can one stay focused in such a volatile professi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0231175701
• ASIN: 0231175701
• ISBN: 0231175701
• Brand: COLUMBIA
• Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

Nanotechnology: Business Applications and Commercialization (Nano and Energy)

No longer the hidden genius of scientists, nanotechnology is now appearing in products manufactured for everyday life―products that can heal, save lives, be more durable, and last longer. It is also attracting the attention of investors interested in participating in this nano revolution. Nanotechnology: Business Applications and Commercialization is a guide for businesses, investors, and research universities who want to bring nanotechnology products to the commercial market. Showing how academia and business can partner to commercialize nanomaterial research, it delineates business aspec... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439845212
• ASIN: 1439845212
• ISBN: 9781439845219
• Brand: Brand: CRC Press
• Manufacturer: CRC Press

Why Bother With Bonds: A Guide To Build All-Weather Portfolio Including CDs, Bonds, and Bond Funds--Even During Low Interest Rates (How To Achieve Financial Independence)

A practical how-to guide for every investor. For ordinary investors who want to build an all-weather portfolio. It is time-proven wisdom, and encourages you to take control of your finances. Learn how to use CDs, bonds, and bond funds to manage risk/reward even during low interest rates. You will learn: How to choose your stocks/bonds allocation How to become immune to changing interest rates When to use CDs and individual bonds How to choose a good bond fund How to hedge against unexpected inflation Contents: Foreword by Larry Swedroe Introduction - Who Should Read This Book? - Start with a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0985800402
• ASIN: 0985800402
• ISBN: 9780985800406
• Manufacturer: GrowthConnection, LLC

Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker's Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis

When Kevin Rodgers embarked on his career in finance, dealing rooms were seething with clamoring traders and gesticulating salesmen. Nearly three decades later, the feverish bustle has gone and the loudest noise you’re likely to hear is the gentle tapping of keyboards. Here is a very personal, often wryly amusing chronicle of this silent revolution that takes us from the days of phone calls, hand signals and alpha males to a world of microwave communications, complex derivatives and computer geeks. In addition, it’s a masterclass in how modern banking works, for those who don’t know thei... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1847941532
• ASIN: 1847941532
• ISBN: 1847941532
• Brand: Random House Business Books
• Manufacturer: Random House UK

The Syrian Virgin: A Young Woman's Journey From War in Syria to Love in New York (The Syrian Virgin Series) (Volume 1)

Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the 21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts her devastated life as a college student in NY. She is bewildered and lost -- a virgin in every sense. But despite her inexperience with men and life in the United States, Anissa is quickly drawn to two powerful individuals: Michael Kassab, the Syrian-American leader working to found the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien Morales, her Co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1508560854
• ASIN: 1508560854
• ISBN: 1508560854
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor

Very little solid evidence exists that microloans make a dent in long-term poverty. Sadly, evidence does exist for negligence, corruption, and methods that border on extortion. Part exposé, part memoir, and part financial detective story, this is the account of a one-time true believer whose decade in the industry turned him into a heretic. Hugh Sinclair worked with several microfinance institutions around the world. He couldn’t help but notice that even with a booming $70 billion industry on their side, the poor didn’t seem any better off. Exorbitant interest rates led borrowers into ne... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609945182
• ASIN: 1609945182
• ISBN: 1609945182
• Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Mergers and Acquisitions: Current Issues (Finance and Capital Markets Series)

This collection of exclusive articles presents the latest research in the area of mergers and acquisitions. It presents what drives corporate performance under different economic conditions, both in the US and across the globe, and examines the role of mergers and acquisitions in maintaining the efficiency of world markets.

• ASIN: 0230553796
• ASIN: 0230553796
• ISBN: 0230553796
• Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

Wrestling Old Man Market : Real World Insight and Best Practices to Institutional Investing Told Through the Experiences and Wit of a Former College Wrestler and Hedge Fund Manager.

Wrestling Old Man Market: Real World Insight and Best Practices to Institutional Investing Told Through the Experiences and Wit of a Former

• UPC: 779539867

Wrestling Old Man Market : Real World Insight and Best Practices to Institutional Investing Told Through the Experiences and Wit of a Former College Wrestler and Hedge Fund Manager.

Wrestling Old Man Market: Real World Insight and Best Practices to Institutional Investing Told Through the Experiences and Wit of a Former

• UPC: 952723452