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Description of Hedgehogging

Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.

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Title Information

ISBN:

9780470067734

Pages:

320 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

250121

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:

08/02/2008

Edition:

illustrated edition

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About Barton Biggs

Barton Biggs spent thirty years at Morgan Stanley. In that time, he formed the firm's number-one-ranked research department, built up its investment management business, and served as chairman of the investment management firm. At various times during this period, he was ranked as the number one U.S. investment strategist by the Institutional Investor magazine poll and then, from 1996 to 2003, as the number one global strategist. He was also a member of the five-man executive committee that ran the firm until its merger with Dean Witter in 1996. In 2003, Biggs left Morgan Stanley and, with two other colleagues, formed Traxis Partners. Traxis now has well over a billion dollars under its management. Biggs' latest book, Wealth, War, and Wisdom, is also published by Wiley.

Contents of Hedgehogging

Introduction

1. The Triangle Investment Club Dinner: Hacking Through the Hedgehog Jungle

2. The New Hedgehogs May Have Been Golden Boys, but They Still Bleed Red.

3. Short Selling Oil: The Crude Joke Was on Us

4. Short Selling is Not for Sissies

5. The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund: A Desperate, Frantic Adventure

6. The Roadshow Grind: Blood, Swat, Toil, and Tears

7. The Run-Up and Haunted by Remembrances and Doubt

8. Hedgehogs Come in All Sizes and Shapes

9. The Violence of Secular Market Cycles

10. The Battle for Investment Survival: Only Egotists or Fools Try to Pick Tops and Bottoms

11. From One Generation to Another: Bismarck and the Yale Endowment

12. Nature's Mysticism and Groupthink Stinks

13. The Internet Bubble: I'd Still Rather Have Air-Conditioning

14. Great Investment Managers Are Intense, Disciplined Maniacs

15. You're Only as beloved as Your Most Recent Performance

16. Once You Have a Fortune, How can You Hang on to It?

17. Three Investment Religions: Growth, Value, and Agnostic

18. The Trouble with Being Big

19. Bubbles and True Believer

20. Divine Intervention or Inside Information? A Tale That Will Make Your Blood Run Cold

21. John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Hedge-Fund manager, and Fascinating Character

Conclusion
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