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Cover

Cover Page

Contents

Cover

Series: Books in the Getting Started in Series

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Why Hedge Funds Now and Forever?

Chapter 1: Hedge Fund Basics

The Near Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management

The Credit Crisis and Hedge Funds

A Brief History of Hedge Funds

The Current State of the Hedge Fund Industry

Alfred Winslow Jones—The Original Hedge Fund Manager

Chapter 2: How Hedge Funds Operate

Starting a Hedge Fund

Hedge Fund Regulations and Structures

How Hedge Funds Use Leverage

Patriarchs of the Hedge Fund World

Hedge Funds Take All the Heat

George Soros—The World's Greatest Investor

Chapter 3: The Managers

Guy Wyser-Pratte—Wyser-Pratte

Bill Michaelcheck—Mariner Investment Group

Nancy Havens—Havens Advisors LLC


  

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