Hedge Fund Strategies and Tools, 3rd Edition

This book is a must for every hedge fund investor. It is the most thorough examination of many strategies ever conducted in one book. A book to help investors increase returns and lower risk. Hedge Fund Strategies allow investors to understand and balance the risk in their portfolio. Hedge fund categories such as: global/macro hedge funds, merger arbitrage hedge funds, market neutral hedge funds, equity hedge (long/short) funds, commodity trading funds, fixed income arbitrage funds, short selling, market timing, convertible arbitrage funds, emerging market funds and many other types are analyzed to determine when they perform better or worse and what factors affect the returns on these strategies. Some hedge fund tools are demonstrated to allow traders and investors to use the same methods when constructing their own portfolios.

Author: (Lee) Mick Swartz Phd
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 04/28/2015
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781511946971

About the Author
Mick Swartz, Associate Professor of Finance Professor Mick Swartz is a financial economist whose research has been published in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and Financial Review. He is a board member of the California Hedge Fund Association (CHFA). Dr. Swartz is also chapter executive and founding member of the Los Angeles branch of the Chartered Alternative Investment Association (CAIA). In 1997, he won the ANBAR Award for a paper that is listed as among the top 150 business papers in the world. Professor Swartz has made over twenty presentations at finance conferences, has consulted the US Senate on derivatives legislation, appeared on CNN, NPR and NBC and appeared before state legislators concerning executive compensation and merger legislation. He has taught investments, hedge funds, derivatives and corporate finance in many countries, including Ukraine, United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, and Germany. Before joining USC, Professor Swartz taught at Purdue University, where he was recognized as Distinguished Professor numerous times for his teaching. He has over 15 academic publications and over 25 presentations. He spent one year as an international visiting research scholar at The University of Chicago, taught at the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University.


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