Hedge Fund Secrets: An Introduction to Quantitative Portfolio Management

by Philip J Romero, Tucker Balch

Overview

What Hedge Funds Do provides a needed complement to journalistic accounts of the hedge fund industry, to deepen the understanding of non-specialist readers such as policymakers, journalists, and individual investors.

What do hedge funds really do? These lightly-regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, which permits hedge fund managers to charge exceptionally high fees.

While the details of each funds' approach are carefully guarded trade secrets, this book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies Beyond the book's instructional goals, What Hedge Funds Do provides a needed complement to journalistic accounts of the hedge fund industry, to deepen the understanding of non-specialist readers such as policymakers, journalists, and individual investors. It is written by a fund practitioner and computer scientist (Balch), in collaboration with a public policy economist and finance academic (Romero).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947441064
Publisher:	Business Expert Press
Publication date:	01/24/2018
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Dr. Philip J. Romero was an economist, policy analyst, band applied mathematician, and former California chief economist. He was Dean and also was Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business prior to his passing.

Editorial Reviews

I applaud Phil Romero's willingness to write about the hedge fund world, an industry that is very private, often flamboyant, and easily misunderstood. As with every sector of the investment landscape, the hedge fund industry varies dramatically from quantitative "black box" technology, to fundamental research and old-fashioned stock picking. This book helps investors distinguish between these diverse opposites and understand their place in the new evolving world of finance.--Mick Elfers, Founder and Chief Investment Strategist, Irvington Capital

When I managed a hedge fund in the late 1990s, computer based trading was a mysterious technique only available to the largest hedge funds and institutional trading desks. We've come a long way since then. With this book, Drs. Romero and Balch lift the veil from many of these once-opaque concepts in high-tech finance. We can all benefit from learning how the cooperation between wetware and software creates fitter models. This book does a fantastic job describing how the latest advances in financial modeling and data science help today's portfolio managers solve these greater riddles.--Michael Himmel, Managing Partner, Essex Asset Management

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