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Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights François-Serge Lhabitant
Publisher: Wiley

Indeed, hedge fund fees are unquestionably the highest amongst active managers of marketable securities. Early last year, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, in alluding to activities within the hedge fund community asserted that. €�Although some of the findings are troubling, this groundbreaking survey provides valuable insights that will help the industry to further strengthen its investor protection programs and root out any bad actors.”. Back in 2007 Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times wrote this article, claiming that hedge fund managers used a 'secret language' made up of 'technical-sounding explanations for losing billions of dollars of other people's money'. Fact: Hedge fund fees are high. Commitment to corporate integrity,” noted Lara Block, Executive Director of the Hedge Fund Association. Career Insights from the Hedge Fund Industry In this particular case, a leading multi-billion dollar hedge fund was searching for a quantitative analyst to join its equity derivatives trading desk, and help in developing strategies for relative value trading, directional volatility trading, convertible bond arbitrage and more. Fact: Some premium goods in life are considered worth their price by the buyers. And Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner . Quantitative hedge fund analysis starts with taking the pulse of the fund by calculating some simple risk/reward measures. The capital markets are highly divided about the possibility of the Fed embarking on a new round of Quantitative Easing (read money printing). Hedge Funds: Quantitative Insights is essential reading for finance practitioners, including portfolio managers, qualitative and quantitative analysts, consultants and investors - both institutional and private. This analysis serves as a starting point in estimating the relative attractiveness of the investment.