Hedge hunters
Subtitle: how hedge fund masters survived
By: Katherine Burton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781576603635
Subjects: Hedge funds; Investment advisors
Description: "A rare look at the hedge fund industry's top performers that introduces the most talented new managers, handpicked by the masters themselves. With unprecedented candor and detail, the most successful hedge fund managers reveal their personal journeys, their individual strategies for producing outstanding returns, attributes most important to the job, and how they survived the subprime crisis"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mark Yusko; title: What it takes to be the best / Michael Steinhardt; title: A passion for performance / John Armitage; title: Reasoned and unrattled / Marc Lasry; title: An intolerance for losing / Craig Effron; title: The allure of risk / Lee Ainslie; title: A stock picker, pure and hardly simple / Bernay Box; title: The big time in small caps / Boone Pickens; title: A penchant for gushers : the boone boys / Brian Bradshaw, David Meaney, Michael Ross, and Alex Szewczyk; title: Doyens of debt / Jeffrey Schachter and Burton Weinstein; title: Leaving little to chance / Dwight Anderson; title: The phoenix phenomenon / Roberto Mignone; title: Fruits of firsthand knowledge / Bruce Ritter; title: Mastering a changing market / Julian Robertson; title: Encores / Jim Chanos; title: Out on the short-selling limb / Daniel Loeb; title: Newfound restraint / Richard Perry; title: A manager's manager.