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More money than God : hedge funds and the making of a new elite / Sebastian Mallaby.

By: Mallaby, Sebastian.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Delhi : New York ; Penguin Press, 2010Description: 482 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780143119418 (pbk.).Subject(s): Hedge funds | Investment advisors | Hedge FundDDC classification: 332.64524 Online resources: Publisher Description
Contents:
Big daddy -- The block trader -- Paul Samuelson's secret -- The alchemist -- Top cat -- Rock-and-roll cowboy -- White Wednesday -- Hurricane Greenspan -- Soros versus Soros -- The enemy is us -- The dot-com double -- The Yale men -- The code breakers -- Premonitions of a crisis -- Riding the storm -- "How could they do this?" -- Conclusion : scarier than what?
Summary: Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first-century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009—and explains why understanding the history of hedge funds is key to predicting the future of finance. Taken from the publisher site.
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"A council on foreign relations book"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-463) and index.

Big daddy -- The block trader -- Paul Samuelson's secret -- The alchemist -- Top cat -- Rock-and-roll cowboy -- White Wednesday -- Hurricane Greenspan -- Soros versus Soros -- The enemy is us -- The dot-com double -- The Yale men -- The code breakers -- Premonitions of a crisis -- Riding the storm -- "How could they do this?" -- Conclusion : scarier than what?

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first-century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009—and explains why understanding the history of hedge funds is key to predicting the future of finance.

Taken from the publisher site.

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