The hedge fund industry -- The service providers -- Hedge fund structures -- Hedge fund accounting -- ERISA, UBTI, and off-shore funds -- Marketing and capital raising -- Why the back office matters -- The launch -- Perception versus reality

"The book on hedge fund basics, completely updated to reflect today's post-crisis industry The hedge fund industry has been reeling in the wake of recent Ponzi schemes and insider trading scandals as well as the loss of billions of dollars in assets under management due to fund closures. Getting...

This paper discusses the application of statistical, survey sampling technique to hedge fund tracking problems. I describe a strategy that allows an investor or a fund of hedge funds manager, to construct a small tracking portfolio that replicates the time series changes of the total relative...