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Hedge Funds and Managed Futures: The Handbook for the Institutional Investor
Risk Waters, Sep 2006, Pages: 350
The phenomenal growth of hedge fund investments into a $1.3 trillion industry has brought with it many challenges and provoked much debate. This dynamic industry continues to thrive despite the obituaries commentators have regularly written for it over the past decade.
Hedge Funds and Managed Futures: The Handbook for the Institutional Investor is a measure of the growing sophistication and importance of the sector. The depth and range of topics are testament to the diversity of the industry. It evaluates four key topics from a critical perspective:
- benchmarking and performance measurement
- risk management
- portfolio management
- asset allocation
This multi-contributor handbook offers valuable insights into the needs of investors. It covers hot topics such as: Managed Accounts, Portable Alpha and Active Value Investing and stresses the importance of working in partnership with your clients to develop a wide range of products and looks at how to tailor hedge fund investments to specific needs.
The high profile contributors are a mixture of leading finance academics, industry commentators and practitioners. The independence of their views and the academic-professional balance reflects an intellectual maturity and confidence which is essential in maintaining a healthy industry.
Your ability to generate alpha and structure genuinely innovative products will be paramount to the growth of your business. Based on new research and analysis this informative and timely book will provide you with practical and innovative ideas for successful institutional investment.
About the Authors:
Greg N. Gregoriou is Associate Professor of Finance and Coordinator of Faculty Research in the School of Business and Economics at State University of New York (Plattsburgh). He is the hedge fund editor for the peer-reviewed journal Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation and editorial board member of the Journal of Wealth Management. He has authored over 60 articles on hedge funds, and managed futures in various US and UK peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Asset Management, European Journal of Operational Research and Annals of Operations Research.
Dieter G. Kaiser is responsible for institutional research at Benchmark Alternative Strategies (a fund-of-hedge-fund-management company) in Frankfurt. He started his professional career in the structured products sector at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He later joined Crédit Agricole Asset Management, where he was responsible for the fund-of-hedge-funds Marketing Support within the Institutional Sales & Marketing division. He has written several articles on alternative investments and is the author of Hedge Funds – Demystifying an Asset Class – Structures, Opportunities, Risks and co-author of Alternative Investment Strategies: Insights into the investment techniques of hedge fund managers. He is also co-editor of the Handbook Alternative Investments.
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