Bloomberg: Hedge Hunters: After the Credit Crisis, How Hedge Fund Masters Survived (Paperback)

from berthirsch

Katherine Burton does a fine, journalistic job at introducing the reader to the world of Hedge Funds. This is a quick read filled with profiles of some of the best in the business from the pioneers like Michael Steinhardt, Julian Robertson and Boone Pickens to the younger managers they mentored. ...

from meklarian

Hedge Hunters is an entertaining yet deceptively shallow book. Given the subject, title, and background of the author, one might assume or hope that the book will contain a lot of deep material on the strategy or operations of running a hedge fund. This is not the case. If you are looking for an ...

from VisibleGhost

What Hedge Hunters Is: The book looks at about twenty hedge fund investors that have been actively trading for at least the past ten years. There are mini-profiles with background info that are the length of an article one would see in a business magazine like Fortune or BusinessWeek. There is an...

from PointedPundit

Although the author provides unparalleled access to the thinking of 25 hedge fund greats she often misses the mark. Hedge Fund managers are notorious for high returns and low profiles. Katherine Burton, who covers the hedge fund industry for Bloomberg News, provides the reader with access to thes...

from mmhorman

Burton, a journalist for Bloomberg news, writes eighteen short profiles of some of the most important hedge fund investors working today including profiles of 13 up and comers picked by the master hedge fund investors themselves. I found the book somewhat informative as someone who is not very fa...