Outies by J R Pournelle
With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds. A Fund of Hedge Funds (FOF) spreads investments among a number of hedge funds to reduce risk and provide diversification, while maintaining the potential for higher than average returns. Odds are that some pension fund of yours is invested heavily in these products, and more recently these FOFs have been opened to more and more individual investors in offshore jurisdictions with lower minimum entry levels. Since this is a new and extremely fast-moving financial phenomenon, academic research has just begun in earnest, and this is the first book to present rigorous academic research by some of the leading lights in academic finance, carefully analyzing the broad array of issues involved in FOFs.
Jennifer R. Pournelle is an archaeologist and anthropologist who reconstructs the landscapes that surrounded ancient cities. Her work in Turkey, Iraq, and the Caucasus has been featured in Science magazine, The New York Times, and on The Discovery Channel, PBS/NOVA, and National Geographic Television. In a former life, she received numerous decorations for service as a United States Army officer and arms control negotiator, and directed reconstruction work in Iraq as a civilian. Pournelle won the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Book Prize for Excavations, A City Cycle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780615434148 |
| ISBN 10 | 0615434142 |
| Title | Outies |
| Author | J R Pournelle |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Brookland Press |
| Year published | 2011-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 402 |
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