HEDGE HUNTERS (Bloomberg)

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HEDGE HUNTERS (Bloomberg)

Author(s): Katherine Burton (Author)

  • Publisher: Kogan Page
  • Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2007
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 206 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1576602451
  • ISBN-13: 9781576602454

Book Description

“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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“..a fascinating and enjoyable read. If like me you want to know more about the hedge fund industry then I suggest you read it.”
Business Opportunities and Ideas blog, Feb 2008

“..a lively read that cuts through the industry jargon to paint a straightforward and occasionally compelling picture of those at its heart.” — The Business, 15 December 2007

“..a readable, relevant book, with lessons a new generation of hedge-fund managers..would do well to take to heart.” — Barron’s

“Eloquently written and obviously well researched..an entertaining and informative read which really is actually hard to put down.” — Pensions Age, December 2007

“Great descriptions of the backgrounds, philosophies, and practices of the best managers, told in a rapid, entertaining narrative.” — David Einhorn, Manager, Greenlight Capital Hedge Fund

“Her lengthy interviews with these managers are a window onto how wealth operates…Burton’s book surprises with its comedy and colour.”
International Herald Tribune, 21 December 2007

“This collection of interviews is much more useful than those books which only espouse a single viewpoint.” — Securities & Investment Review, January 2008

“This is a page-turner, with insights from some of the legends of the hedge fund industry. And it’s written in a wonderfully engaging style by a veteran journalist with unprecedented access to these titans of Wall Street.”
Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management

“This is a well-written…entertaining, informative and easy-to-read book. I would recommend it to hedge fund investors and non-investors alike.” — Fund Strategy, 10 December 2007

About the Author

Katherine Burton has been a reporter at Bloomberg News since 1993, covering hedge funds and investment management. Before joining Bloomberg, she wrote for the International Herald Tribune and U.S. News & World Report. She has an MBA from New York University and is a winner of the 2001 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news, and the 2005 New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Journalism for business writing.

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