Description

In the always evolving hedge fund market, nothing is extra central–however in some ways, extra amorphous and elusive–than threat. Yet there stays no customary for analyzing and measuring threat inside this extremely secretive, largely unregulated discipline, leaving the hundreds of hedge funds–and the tens of hundreds of hedge fund traders–in dangerously dim mild. The business has not solved the “transparency” problem–speaking threat to traders with out disclosing proprietary info.

Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals is the primary e book to convey these points to the forefront. With readability, concision, and minimal math, Richard Horwitz lays out the important thing elements and the cutting-edge processes within the discipline of hedge fund threat administration as we speak. Against that backdrop, he presents a groundbreaking utility destined to set the usual for transparency and threat administration inside the hedge fund universe.

You’ll study why, relating to threat administration, 1 + 1 = 1.41. For all of these perplexed by the difficulties of assessing threat in hedge fund investing, Horwitz’s ideas make for a useful highway map and a demystifying useful resource that hedge funds and traders in any respect ranges will discover indispensable.

 

Review

A splendidly written e book on a subject that has vexed traders and professionals alike–balancing the necessity to know in opposition to the will to offer info. In a radical and complete method, Richard Horwitz takes the reader on an explanatory journey by means of the dangers related to hedge fund investing. His perception and expertise give him the attitude wanted to articulate the challenges confronted by this business, in addition to providing a sound answer that I consider couldn’t come quickly sufficient.”
—Andrew A Kandiew
Managing Director, Risk Management
Commonfund

“Richard Horwitz has produced a piece of remarkable sensible worth. This e book offers head-on with the challenges of hedge fund investing by offering clever, well-informed, and uniquely accessible recommendation. Most usefully, he offers a benchmark for hedge fund traders to guage their very own funding processes.”
Andrew B. Weisman
Director of Risk Management and Research, Strativarius Capital Management, LP

Required studying for anybody who needs to grasp the wonderful factors of hedge fund threat measurement.
Steve McMenamin
Chairman, Greenwich Roundtable

“Not overly technical, this e book just isn’t solely a must-read for neophytes and the newly indoctrinated to threat on derivatives but additionally an awesome refocuser for threat professionals!”
Robert M. Aaron
Chairman and CEO, Derivatives Portfolio Management, LLC
Member of the Board, Managed Funds Association

A complete, eye-opening account on threat administration which ought to be learn by traders and managers alike.”
Lois Peltz
President and CEO, Infovest21

“This e book affords a wonderful overview of the complicated subject of hedge fund threat administration. Furthermore, it offers an revolutionary and pragmatic answer to the important thing transparency subject.
Pierre Jette, MBA, CFA
Associate Vice President, Equity Markets, CDP Capital

“Richard Horwitz offers a invigoratingly recent and interesting perspective on hedge funds, threat administration and investing rules. Practitioners all too usually neglect the essential rules of quantitative threat administration, and thus obscure relatively than illuminate the commerce off between threat and reward. This e book eloquently bridges the divide between the ‘theory’ and the ‘practice’ of investing in hedge funds.
Adil Abdulali
Director of Risk Management, Protégé Partners

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