Table of Contents
How to Use This Book vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1: Hedge Fund Daily Operations 1
Chapter 2: The Hedge Fund Life Cycle: From Startup to Titan 11
Chapter 3: Hedge Fund Investors 23
Chapter 4: Hedge Fund Capital Raising 31
Chapter 5: Long/Short Equity Strategy 41
Chapter 6: Global Macro Strategy 55
Chapter 7: Event-Driven Strategy 71
Chapter 8: Fixed-Income Strategy 77
Chapter 9: Convertible-Arbitrage Strategy 107
Chapter 10: Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading Strategies 115
Chapter 11: Managed Futures 133
Chapter 12: Credit-and Asset-Based Lending 155
Chapter 13: Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds 171
Chapter 14: Fund of Hedge Funds 179
Appendix A: Bloomberg Functionality Cheat Sheet 199
Appendix B: Answers to Test-Yourself Quizzes 201
References 205
About the Author 207
Index 209