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A comprehensive look at hedge fund performance issues

In Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance, Dr. Vinh Tran gives readers the information they need to construct an efficient hedge fund portfolio based on their own level of knowledge. From evaluating hedge funds to picking the winners, Dr. Tran covers some of the most important issues related to this flexible investment vehicle. Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance takes the standard hedge fund book to a new level by detailing how to manage the risk of hedge funds and offering the best methods to evaluate and monitor hedge funds. With strategy based on interviews and data from experts in the field, this book is a must-read for any investor or manager who is investing in hedge funds.

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A comprehensive look at hedge fund performance issues In Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance, Dr. Vinh Tran gives readers the information they need to construct an efficient hedge fund portfolio based on their own level of knowledge. From evaluating hedge funds to picking the winners, Dr. Tran covers some of the most important issues related to this flexible investment vehicle. Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance takes the standard hedge fund book to a new level by detailing how to manage the risk of hedge funds and offering the best methods to evaluate and monitor hedge funds. With strategy based on interviews and data from experts in the field, this book is a must-read for any investor or manager who is investing in hedge funds.

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This one is the same as the others.............2007-09-10

This ins't the the first of Amazon's Hedge Fund review books that I've purchased and read. Don't expect any real insight into hedge hund performance, as hinted by the title, that isn't provided by any number of titles authored previously. This genre all pretty much say the same thing and it is a bore to read the repititous materal that they all provide. Save your money and your time. And these are the words as a real industry participant. Life is too short.

Punter

Not for hedge fund professionals.......2006-02-23

I was thoroughly disappointed with the material in the book. As someone who evaluates hedge fund investments and performance on a daily basis, I am always on the lookout for new research. Wiley Books has traditionally done a very good job of publishing authors who contribute to the hedge fund investment research process. This book fails to break any new ground - in fact, it rehashes what any professional in the hedge fund world already knows. However, I did give it 3 stars because it may be useful for someone who is looking to break into the industry or is just starting out in the HF indsutry. And for any quants in the HF industry - stay away from this book. There is nothing to learn from it.

Evaluating Hedge Fund and CTA Performance: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach + CD-ROM

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Evaluating Hedge Fund and CTA Performance: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach + CD-ROM
Greg N. Gregoriou , and Joe Zhu
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Introducing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- a quantitative approach to assess the performance of hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and commmodity trading advisors. Steep yourself in this approach with this important new book by Greg Gregoriou and Joe Zhu.

"This book steps beyond the traditional trade-off between single variables for risk and return in the determination of investment portfolios. For the first time, a comprehensive procedure is presented to compose portfolios using multiple measures of risk and return simultaneously. This approach represents a watershed in portfolio construction techniques and is especially useful for hedge fund and CTA offerings."
-- Richard E. Oberuc, CEO, Burlington Hall Asset Management, Inc. Chairman, Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research

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Great stuff, thanks.......2006-06-09

I am always on the lookout for new quantitative methods to complement my portfolio optimizers. I found this approach pretty novel. It seems to do a good job at identifying efficient funds from the non-efficient ones. Great stuff, thanks guys.

MADE A FORTUNE IN CONSULTING USING THIS SOFTWARE .......2006-06-08

The minute I got the book I went directly to the CD to do all my consulting work. Thanks to the CD I made over $125,000 US in one week consulting using this software and providing DEA scores of every hedge fund in my hedge fund database for a well-known fund of hedge funds. It paid off my mortgage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Very basic book.......2006-03-28

The book applies an operations management method - data envelopment analysis - to evaluate the performance of hedge funds and CTAs. DEA is a multi-variate non-parametric linear optimization method that quantifies the relationship between multiple inputs and outputs. The method has been widely used in operations management, but in finance, investment management and portfolio selection, its use is nascent.

The authors provide a rapid introduction to DEA. I found it shallow. For anyone needing a comprehensive, deeper, and more correct understanding the material, I would strongly recommend Zhu's "Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking", where the careful derivation of the various approaches offers a good understanding of the functional definitions of his approach. Chapters 6 to 9 provide the empirical analysis of performance using hedge fund and CTA data. The introductions are brief and most of the text is tables with results. I would prefer to have seen a deeper explanation of the methods and why particular methods are more appropriate for the selection of particular performance assessment. The multivariate approach is unique and potentially useful when optimizing a portfolio given certain sets of multi-collinear constraints. What this book lacks is a deeper analysis of this particular application.

The book comes with a CD that contains Zhu's DEA-Solver. This handy Excel add-in is useful in creating DEA analysis.

I have used this approach for portfolio performance evaluation and found Zhu's previously mentioned book more useful than this book. In my work, I wanted to find that combination of assets with the most efficient upper and lower partial moment distributions in a potential portfolio. It worked reasonably well, slightly better than a regression approach. For the novice DEA user, my recommendation is to use this book as an outline, but refer to Zhu when creating the analytical framework and applications.

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Written by 12 nationally known experts in environmental law–paralegals, lawyers who are former paralegals, and attorneys who work closely with paralegals in environmental law–this book includes substantive reviews of major environmental laws, with practical discussion of how paralegals support attorneys, governments, and businesses in environmental law matters. Features chapter-length coverage of each major environmental law, with history of the Act, provisions, enforcement, etc. Clean Air Act. Clean Water Act. Toxic Substances Control Act. Resources Conservation and Recovery Act. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. National Environmental Policy Act. Administrative Law and Procedure. For paralegals.

Essentials of Business Law and The Legal Environment

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Essentials of Business Law and The Legal Environment
Richard A. Mann , and Barry S. Roberts
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This text offers complete coverage of business law and its environment in a non-technical, straightforward, and learner-friendly style. Cases are summarized by the authors and integrated throughout chapters. Legal issues and court decisions are carefully explained with a minimum of legal jargon. Most important, Essentials of Business and The Legal Environment covers all required business law topics for the CPA exam.

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All Around Good Introduction To Business Law.......2006-03-23

Well written book that provides a good introduction into business law principles. Outlines complex concepts with case law that makes it easy to understand. A reccomended read for the pre-law students as well as a valuable reference for business owners.

Condition of Text.......2005-09-30

The text was torn. The cover was horrible and it had so much writing in it. It was the wrong text. I typed the IBSN, why would that book show up. I was very disappointed in this purchase.

Badlands: Essential Environmental Law For Property Professionals (Environmental Law)

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Clare Deanesly , Chris Papanicolaou , and Angela Turner
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Jamie Benidickson
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Essential Injustice: When Legal Institutions Cannot Resolve Environmental and Land Use Disputes

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Benjamin Davy
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Increasingly, legal institutions cannot resolve disputes over the siting of hazardous waste facilities. One reason for the impasse between developers, regulators, and opponents is the inability to establish a fair distribution of environmental burdens. Since justice is a key element of resolving environmental and land use disputes, "Essential Injustice” is about pollution, burden, and injustice. Is it just that developers make profits by imposing risks on others? Is it fair to restrict economic progress or private property for the comfort of anxious citizens? Does society equitably compel one community to tolerate extraordinary burdens for the benefit of the general public? Obviously, easy answers are not available, because pollution will not go away, some people are going to suffer, and injustice is inevitable. By listening to the victims of injustice, however, we can learn to avoid the consequences of environmental injustice. "Rarely is one privileged to review a seminal work, yet this is what lawyer Davy delivers with Essential Injustice. Well written, his easygoing, engaging style makes light work of a truly heavyweight analysis. Meticulous explanation, use of relevant examples, illustrations and modelling, excellent cross referencing and voluminous annotation gently guide the reader through a complex web of wide-ranging but closely interconnected concepts to ensure clarity and consistency of argument ... Presented in a form equally suited to academic and professional consumption, Davy’s insights in Essential Injustice will advance practical, theoretical and philosophical debate at all levels across a wide range of disciplines”. Town Planning Review

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Essential Law for Landowners & Farmers
Angela Sydenham , Bruce Monnington , Andrew Pym , and Michael Gregory
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This concise and well-established working guide for landowners, farmers and their advisers explains the law on the ownership, occupation and use of agricultural land.Essential Law for Landowners and Farmers provides an invaluable source of sound advice, clarifying the complex problems facing landowners today, and explaining the law governing their resolution.In this major new edition, all the chapters have been re-written and several added, to reflect the enormous changes in the law over the last eleven years - from the new access to open land to environmental issues and the introduction of the farm business tenancy. Designed for quick and easy reference, the book concentrates on issues of prime relevance to landowners and now with a further reading section, this book is an essential single source of guidance on land law.According to Lord Plumb, writing on the last edition, reading it could avert much 'dispute and misunderstanding ... argument and bloodshed'.

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Law for Business and Personal Use 15E maintains a fundamental emphasis on business law, while introducing personal law topics that interest students. Give your students the most comprehensive coverage of contracts, ethics, employment law, credit, banking, partnerships, bankruptcy, and more.

Assessing the effectiveness of food worker training in Florida: opportunities and challenges and food safety issues and training methods for ready-to-eat ... from: Journal of Environmental Health

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