This hedge fund reader presents a collection of new articles by well known, leading and respected academic and professionals with years of experience in this field....

With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds....

After the cooling off of IPOs since the dot com bubble, Google has rekindled the fire for IPOs. This IPO reader contains new articles exclusive to this reader by leading academics from around the world dealing with quantitative and qualitative analyses of this increasingly popular and important area of finance....

Whether already experienced with hedge funds or just thinking about investing in them, readers need a firm understanding of this unique investment vehicle in order to achieve maximum success. Hedge Funds unites over thirty of the top practitioners and academics in the hedge fund industry to provide readers with the latest findings in this field....

Introducing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- aA quantitative approach to assess the performance of hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and commmodity trading advisors.A Steep yourself in this approach with this important new book by Greg Gregoriou and Joe Zhu....

It is now a well-know fact that mergers and acquisitions activity comes in waves. The most recent wave, the 5th takeover wave of the 1990s, was characterized by an unprecedented number of corporate restructurings in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&As), public-to-private transactions, spin-offs and divestitures, and leveraged recapitalizations....

The world’s leading financial thinkers share their insights into the latest developments in credit derivatives In The Credit Derivatives Handbook, some of the world\'s sharpest financial and legal minds come together to discuss how credit derivatives hae evolved from tools restricted to the banking industry into flexible and customizable instrument...

As the credit bubble fallout plagues the institutional finance sector - and will continue to do so in coming years - a strategic approach to credit portfolio management has never been more critical. \"The Handbook of Credit Portfolio Management\" provides all the information you\'ll need to successfully rebalance and manage your credit portfolios....