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Description of The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies |
The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies brings you strategic insights and practical research on institutional investments in a range of alternative asset classes by the most successful practitioners and leading applied academics.
In a single volume of over 300 pages, The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies is your complete guide to portfolio techniques, asset allocation, performance measurement and product selection in a range of assets including: hedge funds, managed futures, derivatives, private equity and venture capital, oil & gas, energy futures, and more. It's the latest thinking by the leading experts that you need to know to make informed decisions on investing and avoid pitfalls in illiquid, high-risk investments.
This book is a must-read for all senior-level investment decision-makers, including: Hedge Fund Managers, Portfolio Managers, Corporate Plan Sponsors, Family Office Executives, Insurance Company Executives, Institutional Salespersons and Consultants, and Chief Investment Officers.
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Reviews'This handbook brings together some of the best academic and practitioner evidence on the characteristics and benefits of alternative investments. Anyone interested in managed futures, hedge funds as well as commodities as possible investments should not fail to read this book.'
David McCarthy, Investment Manager, Global Asset Management
| Contents of The Handbook of Alternative Investment Strategies |
Section I: Alternative Asset Returns: Academic Evidence
1:Are Stocks the Best Place to Be in the Long Run: A Contrary Opinion
2:Technical Trading: When it Works and When it Doesn't
3:Benefits of Managed Fund Strategies: Managed Futures and Hedge Funds
Section II: Managed Futures
4: Comparison of Managed Futures Benchmarks
5:Na•ve and Optimal Diversification For Managed Futures
6:The Benefits of Managed Futures
7:Managed Futures and Hedge Fund Investment for Downside Equity Risk Management
8: Skewness in Asset Returns: Does it Matter
Section III: Hedge Fund Investment
9: A Review of Hedge Fund Performance Benchmarks
10: Na•ve Diversification for Hedge Funds
11: Multi-Factor Analysis of Hedge Fund, Managed Futures, and Mutual Fund Return and Risk Characteristics
12: Alternative Investments in the Institutional Portfolio
Section IV: Commodity Investment
13: Commodity Investing: Long-Run Returns and the Function of Passive Capital
14: GSCI Collateralized Futures as a Hedging and Diversification Tool for Institutional Portfolios: An Update
15: Hedging Portfolios with Real Assets
16: Energy Based Investment Products and Investor Asset Allocation
Section V: Traditional Alternatives
17: Risk and Reward in Private Equity Investments: The Challenge ofPerformance Measurement
18: A Transaction-Based Index of Commercial Property and its Comparison to the NCRIEF Index
19: Timberland Return Drivers and Investing Styles for an Asset that has come of Age
20: Structure of the Venture Capital Industry
21: Private Debt: Past, Present, and Future
Section VI:New Product Development and Design
22: Traditional and Alternative Investments: Market Structure, Product Structure and Security Design
23: An Introduction to Credit Derivatives
24: Alternative Risk Transfer: Investing Directly in Insurance Risk as anAlternative Investment Strategy
25: An Overview of Value at Risk
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