Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you to recognize and avoid questionable hedge funds before its too late. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book offers an...

A self-study course that reviews the technical and quantitative knowledge necessary to properly manage a hedge fund Today, traditional asset managers are looking to develop their own hedge funds as alternative offerings to their clients. Hedge Fund Course presents all the technical and...

The aim of the book is to provide practical guidance for the investor when compiling due diligence and deciding on an investment or against it. The focus of the book lays on the risk assessment and due diligence. It captures fund's internal and external risks and the investment style specific...

We study whether managers' industry experience matters for hedge fund activism. We find that hedge fund managers with previous executive and outside director experience in target industries hold target shares longer and are more likely to serve as directors on target boards than those without...

Introduction -- Chapter I: The Early American Corporation -- Chapter II: Adolf Berle and the Modern Corporation -- Chapter III: The Rise of Asset Manager Capitalism -- Chapter IV: The Emergence of the Shareholder Primacy Paradigm -- Chapter V: The New Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG -- Chapter...