TY - BOOK N2 - "In 1990 hedge funds managed assets worth around $39 billion. At the peak in 2007 that figure had grown to a staggering $2 trillion. Equally staggering is the amount of money successful hedge fund managers earn--in 2008 the top 10 earned more than $10 billion between them. The returns hedge funds make can be substantial, as they should be, given the high fees they charge. But the losses can be substantial too--as some discovered during the credit crunch market upheaval that started in the summer of 2007. Most people have heard of hedge funds but few are clear about what they are or what they do. The revised and updated second edition of this highly acclaimed guide deftly explains all you need to know about hedge funds in order to understand the nature of their business. And at the end of the book there is a glossary of terms used in association with hedge funds, together with a number of tables and charts showing hedge fund data over the years"--Book Jacket. AB - "In 1990 hedge funds managed assets worth around $39 billion. At the peak in 2007 that figure had grown to a staggering $2 trillion. Equally staggering is the amount of money successful hedge fund managers earn--in 2008 the top 10 earned more than $10 billion between them. The returns hedge funds make can be substantial, as they should be, given the high fees they charge. But the losses can be substantial too--as some discovered during the credit crunch market upheaval that started in the summer of 2007. Most people have heard of hedge funds but few are clear about what they are or what they do. The revised and updated second edition of this highly acclaimed guide deftly explains all you need to know about hedge funds in order to understand the nature of their business. And at the end of the book there is a glossary of terms used in association with hedge funds, together with a number of tables and charts showing hedge fund data over the years"--Book Jacket. T1 - Guide to hedge funds :what they are, what they do, their risks, their advantages / DA - c2011. CY - Hoboken, N.J. : AU - Coggan, Philip. ET - 2nd ed. CN - HG4530 CN - HG4530 PB - Wiley, PP - Hoboken, N.J. : PY - c2011. N1 - "The Economist." ID - 466513 KW - Hedge funds. SN - 9780470926550 SN - 0470926554 TI - Guide to hedge funds :what they are, what they do, their risks, their advantages / LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-b.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-t.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011420490-t.html ER -