Hedge Hunters: How Hedge Fund Masters Survived (Bloomberg Series)
A new preface to award-winning journalist Katherine Burton's best-selling book on hedge fund managers explores the drastic changes the credit crisis has brought to market participants highly dependent on leverage and liquidity. Each chapter in this paperback edition includes new material on how funds were affected by the downturn, how each survived, and what strategies managers are using to cope with ongoing turbulence. Burton's unprecedented access to hedge fund managers offers readers new...
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Hedge Hunters has been one of the most important and best-selling books on hedge funds since its debut in November 2007. Since then, the financial markets have been turned upside down, posing unprecedented challenges to hedge fund managers. This revised and updated edition deals with those changes with all the insight and knowledge that made the original edition so successful. Katherine Burton has written a new preface and has updated each chapter with a discussion of how the fund was affected by the downturn, the manager’s strategies for coping with the ongoing turbulence, and how the fund survived.
Preface to the 2009 Edition xiPreface to the 2007 Edition xivAcknowledgments xixChapter 1 IntroductionWhat It Takes to Be the Best Mark Yusko 01Chapter 2 MastersA Passion for Performance Michael Steinhardt 15Chapter 3 Steinhardt's PickReasoned and Unrattled John Armitage 29Chapter 4 MastersAn Intolerance for Losing Marc Lasry 41Chapter 5 Lasry's PickA Grip on Risk Craig Effron 55Chapter 6 MastersA Stock Picker, Pure and Hardly Simple Lee Ainslie 69Chapter 7 Ainslie's PickThe Big Time in Small Caps Bernay Box 85Chapter 8 MastersThe Imperturbable Oilman Boone Pickens 99Chapter 9 Pickens's PicksA Place at the Table Brian Bradshaw David Meaney Michael Ross Alex Szewczyk 109Chapier 10 MastersDoyens of Debt Josh Friedman Mitch Julis 117Chapter 11 Friedman's And Julis's PicksLeaving Little to Chance Jeffrey Schachter Burton Weinstein 131Chapter 12 MastersThe Phoenix Phenomenon Dwight Anderson 145Chapter 13 Anderson's PickFruits of Firsthand Knowledge Roberto Mignone 157Chapter 14 Anderson's PickMastering a Changing Market Bruce Ritter 171Chapter 15 MastersEncores Julian Robertson 181Chapter 16 MastersOut on the Short-Selling Limb Jim Chanos 189Chapter 17 MastersA Manager's Manager Richard Perry 205Chapter 18 MastersNewfound Restraint Daniel Loeb 219Index 233
