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Managing Hedge Fund Risk: Strategies and Insights from Investors, Counterparties, Hedge Funds and Regulators 2nd Edition
Incisive Media, June 2005, Pages: 400
Now in its second edition, Managing Hedge Fund Risk is the established market-leading guide on risk for the hedge fund industry.
This comprehensively updated second edition combines the views of investors, hedge fund managers, fund of fund managers as well as regulatory professionals, to give you a full 360 degree view of the key risk management issues, as well as essential updates on the latest regulatory requirements.
Featuring fresh insight by editor Virginia Reynolds Parker, the 23 chapters are authored by the most up-to-date leaders in the field - this edition also features 11 entirely new chapters that update you on the most crucial issues including:
- Regulatory risk for hedge fund managers
- Examining potential risk mitigation benefits of diversification
- Legal risks of investments in hedge funds
- What does risk mean for pension fund trustees?
Essential reading for investment bankers, allocators, dealers, counterparties, prime brokers, institutions, private investors, corporate plan sponsors, consultants or anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of hedge funds and their risks.
About the editor:
Virginia Reynolds Parker is the founder of Parker Global Strategies (PGS), a firm that specialises in custom designing and managing funds of hedge funds (FoHF) for institutional clients across the globe. Since 1995, PGS has designed over 20 multi-manager programmes and advised on over US$1.75 billion. PGS was among the first FoHF firms to apply risk management oversight to its funds. Virginia has expertise in traditional and alternative investment strategies, and a strong background in currency risk and returns, risk measurement and management of multi-manager hedge fund portfolios. She has developed industry-recognised performance benchmarks for foreign exchange. Her research is widely published and she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. From 1988 until 1995, Virginia was managing director and director of research and risk management at Ferrell Capital Management. Previously, she was the CIO for a family office. Virginia earned an AB in economics and political science from Duke University. Virginia is an OPM graduate of Harvard Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Stamford Society of Security Analysts, International Association of Financial Engineers, a founding member and angel of '100 Women in Hedge Funds' and serves on the Board of The Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research.
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