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Hedge Funds -- Understanding the Basics

The Hedge Fund Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Analyzing and Evaluating Alternative Investments (Stefano Lavinio)
HG4530 .L364 2000

The Hedge Fund Edge: Maximum Profit/Minimum Risk. Global Trend Trading Strategies (Mark Boucher)
HG4530 .B68 1999

The Hedge Fund Center: The Basics
Series of articles covering: definitions, strategies, risk analysis, comparisons to mutual funds, accountings for, and more.

The Hedge Fund Association: The Basics
Discusses key characteristics and misconceptions about hedge funds, strategies, and more. The HFA also provides free access to articles, surveys, and studies about hedge funds.

The A,B,Cs of Hedge Funds: Alphas, Betas and Costs, 2006 (Ibbotson)

Dynamics of Fund of Hedge Funds: Flow, Size and Performances, 2007 (Ibbotson)

Hedge Funds Bubbling Over? (Daniel P. Collins, Futures: News, Analysis & Strategies for Futures, Options & Derivatives Traders , August 2002)
Provides an overview of various hedge fund indices and strategies. Available in Business Source Premier .

Implications of the Growth of Hedge Funds (SEC, Sept. 2003)
Background on the development of hedge funds, definitions of terminology, explanations of different forms, management and regulatory practices.

Hedge Funds with Style (Stephen J. Brown, William N. Goetzmann, NBER, March 2001)
The popular perception is that hedge funds follow a reasonably well defined market-neutral investment style. This paper studies the monthly return history of hedge funds over the period 1989 through to January 2000 and reports on the performance of various styles of hedge fund management.

Hedge Funds Articles
Bibliography with links to academic articles about hedge fund investment strategies.

 

 

 

 

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