All About Hedge Funds | All About

All About Hedge Funds

Authors: Robert A. Jaeger

Published: October 2002

eISBN: 9780071415637 0071415637 | ISBN: 9780071393935

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Basic Themes

Part One: The Historical and Institutional Context

Chapter 1 The Historical Context

Chapter 2 Hedge Fund Managers and Clients

Chapter 3 Hedge Funds and the Brokerage Community

Chapter 4 The Lure of the Small

Part Two: Hedge Funds, Active Management, and Efficient Markets

Chapter 5 The Hedge Fund Challenge

Chapter 6 Efficient Markets, Emotion, and Skill

Chapter 7 Efficiently Diversified Portfolios

Chapter 8 The Tyranny of the Cap-Weighted Indexes

Part Three: The Tools of the Trade

Chapter 9 Leverage, Short Selling, and Hedging

Chapter 10 Futures and Options

Chapter 11 AM/FM Investing: The Modulation of Returns

Part Four: Some Operational Issues

Chapter 12 Legal and Regulatory Issues

Chapter 13 Performance Fees

Chapter 14 Tax Issues

Part Five: The Menu of Hedge Fund Strategies

Chapter 15 An Overview of the Menu

Chapter 16 Equity Hedge Funds and Global Asset Allocators

Chapter 17 Relative-Value Investing

Chapter 18 Event-Driven Investing

Conclusion

Appendix I: The EACM 100® Index

Appendix II: Suggestions for Further Reading

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Index