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The Investor's Guide to Hedge Funds
Sam Kirschner , Eldon C. Mayer , and Lee Kessler Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471715999 |
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"Eldon Mayer is a battle-tested pro. You should listen to what he and his partner, Sam Kirschner, have to say."Meet the crème de la crème of the new breed of hedge fund managers, learn how they evaluate world financial markets, hear about their winners and losers, and discover how they apply proprietary strategies to stay ahead of the curve. Through broad-scope interviews with 15 highly successful managers, The Investor's Guide to Hedge Funds provides unparalleled insight into each major hedge fund strategy, its strengths, weaknesses, and performance characteristics. Most importantly, this book shows that despite the sensational headlines, adding hedge funds to a portfolio of stocks and bonds can reduce risk and improve overall performance.
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Hedge Fund of Funds Investing: An Investor's Guide
Joseph G. Nicholas Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1576601242 |
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The hedge fund industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and within this universe, the socalled "fund of funds" is king. Comprised of multiple-manager portfolios bundled together as a single multi-hedge fund product, this risk-balancing vehicle has emerged as the instrument of choice for the astute investment professional. "Hedge Fund of Funds Investingwalks the steps for creating, combining, and managing investments with multiple hedge funds as a fund of funds--to achieve specific investment objectives as well as the overall strategic diversification so highly valued by institutional and individual investors alike. Nicholas explains the building blocks of a fund of funds and how they can be incorporated into a traditional portfolio. He also teaches how to evaluate risks, estimate potential returns, and choose statistical measurement methods.Customer Reviews:
Easy to read !!!.......2006-02-23
Highly Recommen.......2004-10-13
Exceptional! Explains this booming investment sector well!.......2004-03-27
Nicholas does a great job describing the evolution of FOFs and how they offer strategic, access and diversification advantages over investing in individual Hedge Funds. His descriptions of the FOFs mechanics and their multiple tiered structures illustrate clearly what goes on "under the kimono" of this somewhat secretive area of the alternative investment world. He illuminates how lockups, fees, redemptions and other restraints affect investment and fund selection - all imperatives that many investors may not readily understand.
Most importantly, as Nicholas has superior access to the data obtained through his firm, Hedge Fund Research, he is able to paint a very thorough picture of FOFs return over the years and how manager selection affects those returns. As an investor in hedge funds himself, Mr. Nicholas has developed impressive screening methodologies and describes these in detail in this book, both through direct explanation and case study.
This is a great book for anyone who has even a little uncertainty about the operations and/or the investment selection of FOFs. As a recent Wharton MBA myself, I know that many of these topics are not covered in classical investment training - it's just too recent of a trend. But FOFs are an explosive trend - with nearly 1/3 of all hedge fund investments - and one that all investors need to understand. Mr. Nicholas's book does an outstanding job in providing this background on the fundamentals of FOF investing.
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Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Investing: A Professional Investor's Guide
William J. Crerend , and Robert A. Jaeger Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070135223 |
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This authoritative overview, written for institutional investors and those with financial oversight responsibilities, reveals strategies, risks, and technical insights into the world of hedge fund investing. Key investment concepts such as evaluation techniques, monitoring tips, and indexation create a solid foundation for making informed investment decisions time after time.Customer Reviews:
fantastic.......2006-10-18
Good primer and useful reference.......2003-02-15
Extremely General.......2002-01-01
Tevfik Aksoy.......1999-11-22
Facts, but somewhat outdated.......1999-07-16
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U.S. Taxation of Foreign Portfolio Investors: A Practical Guide To Taxation In The U.S. Capital Markets
Leonard Schneidman Manufacturer: Boulder Publishers, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0977917207 |
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U.S Taxation of Foreign Portfolio Investors is the only professional book dedicated to the complex analysis of the critical U.S. and cross-border rules and regulations needed by foreign portfolio investors to minimize U.S. taxes on dividends, interest and trading gains.A practical guide to taxation in the united states capital markets. INCLUDES 12 MONTHLY UPDATES AND 2 CD-ROMs: including fully searchable file of the complete book; translations, tax treaties, bibliographic sources and misc statutes.
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Pay Me: The Insider's Guide, U.S. Hedge Fund Compensation, Marketing and Investor Relations
Schwab Enterprise Manufacturer: Schwab Enterprise, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Perfect Paperback ASIN: 0974418862 |
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PAY ME was written to address a general lack of information regarding hedge fund marketing and investor relations cmpensation. It was also written because no other compensation report exists for hedge fund marketing and IR candidates and employees looking to get relevant and current data on employee compensation. The few other compensation reports that exist were written specifically for hedge funds as clients and are prohibitively expensive. We think PAY ME effectively defines the roles of marketers and IR professionals and the compensation they receive.
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Start Your Own Seminar Production Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Startup)
Entrepreneur Press Manufacturer: Entrepreneur Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1599180367 |
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Be Your Own Boss and Sell Your Expertise
Did you ever think you might be able to make money leading seminars to teach others what you know? Or promoting a dynamic speaker who motivates the crowds? Many people pay top dollar to attend seminars that teach them how to do something faster, better, more easily or more profitably-which gives you a great opportunity for profit.
This hands-on guide, completely updated with the latest trends and newest information, details how to plan seminars, webinars, and teleseminars for yourself or someone else from start to finish. Learn how to:
People who promote and produce seminars are making huge profits-and so can you! Get in on the action in this booming field today.
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Great service!.......2007-01-04
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Fast Food Nation tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.)
Eric Schlosser Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 006116139X Release Date: 2006-10-17 |
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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.Each day, one-quarter of the adults in the United States visit fast food restaurants, spending more than $110 billion dollars in the year 2000. Schlosser examines the franchise arrangement, with its curious blend of protection, paternalism and profit as adeptly as he delves into the specifics of what's in the beef. Also on Schlosser's hit list: the susceptibility of meat to dangerous pathogens such as e. coli; the slaughter of nearly 600 cows per hour (this American packinghouse standard, he reveals, is nearly 6 times the rate of European slaughterhouses); an in-depth look into serious nutritional, environmental, and cultural questions. Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats.
Fast Food Nation the movie is slated to be released by Fox Searchlight on November 17, 2006. Starring Ethan Hawke, Avril Lavigne, Patricia Arquette, and Greg Kinnear.
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Very well written - informative without being alarmist.......2007-07-15
No zealot like a convert.......2007-07-10
First half blah, second half must read.......2007-06-23
ways of eating.......2007-03-26
A Must-Read for anyone that eats fast food.......2007-01-09
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser Manufacturer: Harper Perennial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060938455 Release Date: 2002-01-08 |
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains' disturbing efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities.Customer Reviews:
"Eat This, President Bush".......2007-10-22
fantastic book. Thought-provoking and well-documented.......2007-10-16
A hard look at not only fast food, but the beef industry.......2007-10-10
Frightening Truths.......2007-10-09
Fast Food Nation - Eye opening read.......2007-10-04
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Dark Tourism (Tourism, Leisure & Recreation)
Malcolm Foley , and John Lennon Manufacturer: Int. Cengage Business Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0826450644 |
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This book sets out to explore `dark tourism'; that is, the representation of inhuman acts, and how these are interpreted for visitors at a number of places throughout the world, for example the sites of concentration camps in both Western and Eastern Europe. Many people wish to experience the reality behind the media images, or are prompted to find out more by a personal association with places or events. The phenomenon raises ethical issues over the status and nature of objects, the extent of their interpretation, the appropriate political and managerial response and the nature of the experience as perceived by the visitor, their residents and local residents. Events, sites, types of visit and `host' reactions are considered in order to construct the parameters of the concept of `dark tourism'. Many acts of inhumanity are celebrated as heritage sites in Britain (for example, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle), and the Berlin Wall has become a significant attraction despite claiming many victims.
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Child sex tourism: a dark journey.: An article from: The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Terri Patterson Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000NA2RCQ Release Date: 2007-02-08 |
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This digital document is an article from The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2756 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Dark tourism and the celebrity prisoner: front and back regions in representations of an Australian historical prison.: An article from: Journal of Australian Studies
Jacqueline Zara Wilson Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000AJQ17W Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 8992 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal
Eric Schlosser Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 1417687177 |
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Selective interpretation and eclectic human heritage in Lithuania [An article from: Tourism Management]
A. Craig Wight , and J. John Lennon Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PDSA3G |
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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Beyond Ambition: How Driven Managers Can Lead Better and Live Better (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
Robert E. Kaplan , Wilfred H. Drath , and Joan R. Kofodimos Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1555423159 |
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Excellent case studies of senior executive development........1998-08-24
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