num_pages: 400
description: A jargon-free guide to how investment funds operate and have broken free of the financial crises to grow and prosperIn One Step Ahead  Timothy Spangler  author of the award-winning Forbes.com blog Law of the Market  provides a compelling account of how flexible and entrepreneurial investment firms can prosper in a volatile and rapidly changing financial world.From the Occupy Movement to the purchase of well-known household brands by private equity firms Spangler investigates how the structures of alternative investment funds enable them to adapt and react nimbly and effectively to todays shifting economic and financial landscape. Unpicking the debates and putting disputes in context Spangler answers the difficult One Step Ahead is the essential jargon-free guide to understanding how private equity and hedge funds drive financial markets and how they have become vital wealth creation vehicles for both private and public investors in the global economy.
language: English
title: One Step Ahead: Private Equity and Hedge Funds After the Global Financial Crisis
publisher: Oneworld Publications