Market Neutral Investing by Joseph G Nicholas

Market Neutral Investing by Joseph G Nicholas

Market-Neutral Investing
Long/Short Hedge Fund Strategies

Joseph Nicholas has used his years at the center of the hedge fund industry to create a comprehensive road map to market-neutral investing.
GENE T. PRETI President and Chief Investment Officer Zazove Associates LC

IN TODAY'S volatile markets, managing risk is more important than ever. Investors are looking for downside protection while maintaining good returns--and market-neutral investing has emerged as a leading method to meet that need. In this book, industry expert Joseph G. Nicholas explores new approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction through market-neutral strategies.

Market-neutral investments are attractive because they have produced substantially better risk-adjusted returns than the market during the past ten years. The complexities created by the combination of longs, shorts, and leverage, however, make market-neutral strategies very different from conventional investments. Getting to know how these strategies work involves breaking them down into their basic components and then examining how those parts interact as a system with specific risk and reward characteristics. This invaluable guide zeros in on eight key strategies, revealing the source of their past returns and giving the investor tools with which to measure the possibility of repeat performance.

Nicholas draws extensively on his company's database of more than four thousand hedge funds and from HFR's daily portfolio analysis conducted for hedge fund portfolios. He has also incorporated extensive input and actual investment examples provided by managers and practitioners of each of the strategies discussed.

This is a book that looks at market-neutral strategies head on, assessing those that have worked and some notable ones that have failed--and explaining why. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Market-Neutral Investing is an essential resource for professional investors.

JOSEPH G. NICHOLAS, J.D., is founder and chairman of HFR Asset Management, LLC, a leading fund of funds, and Hedge Fund Research, Inc., the industry's leading supplier of hedge fund data. The author of Investing in Hedge Funds (Bloomberg Press, 2005) and Hedge Fund of Funds Investing (Bloomberg Press, 2004), Mr. Nicholas is a frequent lecturer and media expert on topics relating to alternative investments.