Daniel Capocci, PhD

The Complete Guide to Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Strategies is a one-stop-guide to the hedge fund industry, its regulation, and investment and trading strategies.
Written for anyone with an interest in the hedge fund industry, it starts from scratch to enable the inexperienced readers to understand the basic concepts before presenting more advanced ones.
It presents everything practitioners need to know to understand these investment vehicles from their theoretical underpinnings, to how… Voir plus

The Complete Guide to Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Strategies is a one-stop-guide to the hedge fund industry, its regulation, and investment and trading strategies.
Written for anyone with an interest in the hedge fund industry, it starts from scratch to enable the inexperienced readers to understand the basic concepts before presenting more advanced ones.
It presents everything practitioners need to know to understand these investment vehicles from their theoretical underpinnings, to how they work in practice.
Clearly structured and easy to use, the book features real-life examples, end of chapter summaries and details on further resources for hedge fund investors, and proves a ‘must-have’ for anyone interested in the hedge funds industry.
The structure of The Complete Guide to Hedge Funds and Hedge Fund Strategies is the following:
Chapter 1 – What is a hedge fund?
Chapter 2 – Hedge fund characteristics
Chapter 3 – Investment Strategies
Chapter 4 - Hedge fund performance over time
Chapter 5 - Hedge funds, LTCM and recent crises
Chapter 6 - Hedge funds regulation and mutual funds
The heart of the book, almost half of it (80,000+ words) is Chapter 3 focused on the investment strategies implemented by hedge fund managers
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This book presents into details the hedge funds industry. It covers every aspect of it. Chapter 1 starts by presenting the basic features of what is a hedge fund, where the history is coming from, how it evolved and where it is today. From there Chapter 2 presents the characteristics of hedge funds that will enable the reader to differentiate individual funds. This will include the constraints, risks and limits to hedge fund investing. Chapter 3, the heart of the book describe into details the… Voir plus

This book presents into details the hedge funds industry. It covers every aspect of it. Chapter 1 starts by presenting the basic features of what is a hedge fund, where the history is coming from, how it evolved and where it is today. From there Chapter 2 presents the characteristics of hedge funds that will enable the reader to differentiate individual funds. This will include the constraints, risks and limits to hedge fund investing. Chapter 3, the heart of the book describe into details the 20 main investment strategies implemented by hedge fund managers. Each of them is detailed, illustrated with up to four practical examples from the industry and its historical performance is analyzed. Six additional more original strategies are introduced. Chapter 4 reports a complete analysis of the historical performance of hedge funds compared to traditional investments using classical and more advanced tools. The academic research is also summarized. Chapter 5 presents the failure and bailout of Long Term Capital Management and the role of hedge funds in financial crisis. This review includes the recent mortgage crisis. The final chapter compares hedge funds and mutual funds before presenting the regulation governing hedge funds. This includes the regulation regarding alternative UCITS and an introduction to the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive. Voir moins

Ce livre s'intéresse à l'industrie des hedge funds. Il présente les caractéristiques de ces produits d'investissement et décrit leurs spécificités. Plus de la moitié du livre est consacrée à l'exposé détaillé des stratégies d'investissement, chacune d'elles étant illustrée par plusieurs exemples tirés des pratiques de gestion des gérants de fonds. Les performances de ces stratégies font l'objet d'une analyse rigoureuse. Cet ouvrage présente le cadre réglementaire dans lequel évoluent les hedge… Voir plus

Ce livre s'intéresse à l'industrie des hedge funds. Il présente les caractéristiques de ces produits d'investissement et décrit leurs spécificités. Plus de la moitié du livre est consacrée à l'exposé détaillé des stratégies d'investissement, chacune d'elles étant illustrée par plusieurs exemples tirés des pratiques de gestion des gérants de fonds. Les performances de ces stratégies font l'objet d'une analyse rigoureuse. Cet ouvrage présente le cadre réglementaire dans lequel évoluent les hedge funds, analyse leur rôle lors des crises financières (la crise du subprime incluse). Il différencie enfin très clairement les hedge funds des fonds communs de placement. Ecrit par l'un des meilleurs spécialistes européens du sujet, ce livre a pour vocation de permettre aux lecteurs de connaître en profondeur l'industrie des hedge funds et ses spécificités. Voir moins