Visual Guide to Hedge Funds

Everything you ever wanted to know about hedge funds-and a lot you never thought to ask What's the difference between an emerging hedge fund and a shooting-star hedge fund? What are the chief differences between a statistical mean reversion pair trading hedge fund strategy and a discretionary pair trading strategy? Not sure? Well, you're not alone! Despite hedge funds' huge and growing popularity as a relatively safe alternative investment, details about how the industry operates and the strategies different types of hedge funds use continue to be hard to come by. Enter Visual Guide to Hedge Funds. With dozens of brilliant graphics and real world examples, it provides you with a comprehensive (and comprehensible) overview of the hedge fund industry and its practitioners, along with detailed explanations of how different types of hedge funds work. Written by top hedge fund consultant and educator Richard C. Wilson, and based on extensive interviews with hedge fund managers, analysts, and other industry experts, it: Takes you inside the hedge fund industry and shows you how it works Details the investment strategies used by all major types of hedge funds Uses fascinating real-world examples to describe how funds operate, who manages them, and who invests in them Arms you with expert tips, tools, and techniques for profiting from all hedge fund strategies Uses vivid graphics to breathe life into the concepts, processes, and practices described This book will be required reading for the Certified Hedge Fund Professional certificate program which over 1,400 professionals have joined globally. The Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guides cover today's most relevant finance and trading topics in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow style. The content is presented in the most visual of manners thus bringing to life key concepts for finance professionals and truly lives up to the series name by examining concepts in a highly visual way-all charts are in color and presented in a large format for ease of use. Other strong visual attributes include consistent elements that function as additional learning aids for the reader, such as: Key Points, Definitions, Step-by-Step, Do It Yourself, and Bloomberg Financial Series Visual Guide functionality.