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Top Hedge Fund Investors:
Stories, Strategies, and Advice
Top Hedge Fund
Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice profiles nine top-performing, well-regarded investors, each
with a long history of investing in hedge funds. The book chronicles the challenges and rewards these investors
face in selecting hedge fund managers, managing risks and constructing
portfolios. By telling their stories, they describe their strategies and offer
their advice for succeeding at investing in hedge funds.
Readers will find:
· Overviews of the evolution of hedge funds as
an investment and an industry; how and why hedge funds have become a bigger and
more influential investment force.
· Interviews of top hedge fund investors - the
pioneers and next generation; high net-worth individuals, funds of hedge funds
and institutions – result in nine revealing profiles.
o Richard Elden, Founder and Former Chairman,
Grosvenor Capital Management
o Frank Meyer, Founder and Former Chairman,
Glenwood Capital Investments
o James R. Hodge, President and Chief
Investment Officer, Permal Asset Management
o Mark J. P. Anson, Managing
Partner and Chair of the Investment Committee, Oak Hill Investment Management
o Louis W. Moelchert, Jr., Managing Partner,
Private Advisors
o Christopher Fawcett, Co-Founder, Senior
Partner, Fauchier Partners
o Deepak Gurnani, Head of Hedge Funds, Investcorp
o Kathryn A. Hall, Chairman, CEO & Chief
Investment Officer, Hall Capital Partners
o Ted Seides, Co-founder, Protégé Partners
· Viewpoints, lessons, insights and advice
beneficial to all hedge fund investors regarding particular challenges in the
areas of due diligence and manager selection, growth and change of the asset
class, proliferation of funds, headline risk, and balancing qualitative and
quantitative factors when making an investment decision.
· Reviews the financial crisis of 2008,
problematic hedge fund strategies, the Bernard Madoff fraud and previews how
these recent events will influence hedge fund investors in the future.
Top Hedge Fund
Investors will prove
valuable to anyone involved in investing in hedge funds as well as to hedge
funds seeking a better understanding of their clients.
Advance Praise for Top Hedge Fund
Investors
“Cathleen and Larry
have written this must read book on hedge funds. They capture the spirit,
energy, and the knowledge of the best and brightest of the industry.”
-Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Partner
SkyBridge Capital
“A fascinating look into the world of
professional allocators. I recommend any Hedge Fund Manager read this
book to get inside the head of the folks that control where the money goes. Plus,
anyone that is considering putting their money with a Hedge Fund will learn
valuable lessons from these Leaders. Not only is this book insightful -
it is also thoroughly entertaining.”
-Emma Sugarman, Head of Capital
Introduction, BNP Paribas
“In Top Hedge
Fund Investors, Rittereiser
and Kochard profile men and women with passion, courage, intellect, tenacity,
inquisitiveness and resiliency, who have helped establish a standard of
excellence in hedge fund investing that all those who read this book will
benefit from emulating. We are all richer for the authors' efforts to
bring together this outstanding volume of Stories, Strategy and Advice from
some of the best hedge fund investors in the business.”
-Mark W. Yusko, CEO & CIO, Morgan
Creek Capital Management
“This volume will
be required reading for any fiduciary or investor serious about understanding
hedge funds and their strategies. In distilling the investment
philosophies of major thought leaders, the authors have constructed what will
quickly be recognized as a durable intellectual anchor for investors.”
-Orin Kramer, Chair
of the New Jersey State Investment Council, and Partner, Boston Provident,
L.P.
“An excellent
overview and history lesson on the evolution of the global hedge fund industry
with sound advice from successful investors. The foresight and
persistence of these prominent investors in hedge funds provides a practical
education from invaluable experience. They brilliantly articulate their
successes and shortfalls with great insights for any hedge fund investor.”
-Glen C. Dailey, Managing Director,
Head of Prime Brokerage, Jefferies and Company
“Rittereiser and
Kochard have distilled the essence of what drives some of the alternative
investment industry’s most influential leaders. They have coaxed these luminaries into revealing not only
their investing strategies and outlooks, but also the personality traits and
life experiences that make them tick.
The result is a must-read for anyone looking for an edge in, or
considering a career in, the alternative investment sector.”
-Christopher Holt, Director, Industry
Relations, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association,
and Founding Editor, AllAboutAlpha.com
“Top Hedge Fund
Investors offers a
refreshing perspective and unique insight into the shrouded world of hedge
funds. We get a glimpse beyond the numbers and gain an insider’s view of this
complex industry. As one who has been with this business for nearly thirty
years, I can attest that this book rings true.”
-Lawrence P. Chiarello, Partner,
SkyView Investment Advisors LLC
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