Hedge hunters
Subtitle: how hedge fund masters survived
By: Katherine Burton
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781576603635
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 : what it takes to be the best; title: Masters : Michael Steinhardt : a passion for performance; title: Steinhardt's pick : John Armitage : reasoned and unrattled; title: Masters : Marc Lasry : an intolerance for losing; title: Lasry's pick : Craig Effron : a grip on risk; title: Masters : Lee Ainslie : a stock picker, pure and hardly simple; title: Ainslie's pick : Bernay Box : the big time in small caps; title: Masters : Boone Pickens : the imperturbable oilman; title: Pickens's picks : Brian Bradshaw, David Meaney, Michael Ross, and Alex Szewczyk : a place at the table; title: Masters : Josh Friedman and Mitch Julis : doyens of debt; title: Friedman's and Julis's picks : Jeffrey Schachter and Burton Weinstein : leaving little to chance; title: Masters : Dwight Anderson : the Phoenix phenomenon; title: Anderson's pick : Roberto Mignone : fruits of firsthand knowledge; title: Anderson's pick : Bruce Ritter : mastering a changing market; title: Masters : Julian Robertson : encores; title: Masters : Jim Chanos : out on the short-selling limb; title: Masters : Richard Perry : a manager's manager; title: Masters : Daniel Loeb : newfound restraint.