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  • The Alpha Masters

  • Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds
  • By: Maneet Ahuja
  • Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
  • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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By: Maneet Ahuja
Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
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Summary

The Alpha Masters is the ultimate behind-the-curtain look at the hedge fund industry, unlocking the most valuable stories, secrets, and lessons directly from those who have played the game best.

Written by Maneet Ahuja, the hedge fund industry insider, The Alpha Masters brings the secretive world of hedge funds into the light of day for the first time. As the authority that the biggest names in the business, including John Paulson, David Tepper, and Bill Ackman, go to before breaking major news, Ahuja has access to the innermost workings of the hedge fund industry. For the first time, in Alpha Masters, Ahuja provides both institutional and savvy private investors with tangible, analytical insight into the psychology of the trade, the strategies and investment criteria serious money managers use to determine and evaluate their positions, and special guidance on how the reader can replicate this success themselves.

There are few people with access to the inner chambers of the hedge fund industry, and as a result it remains practically uncharted financial territory. Alpha Masters changes all that, shedding light on star fund managers and how exactly they consistently outperform the market. The audiobook:

  • Contains easy-to-follow chapters that are broken down by strategy: Long/Short, Event Arbitrage, Value, Macro, Distressed, Quantitative, Commodities, Activist, Pure Short, Fund of Funds
  • Includes insights from the biggest names in the trading game, including Ray Dalio, Marc Lasry, Jim Chanos, Sonia Gardner, Pierre Lagrange, and Tim Wong
  • Features contributions from industry icon Mohamed El-Erian

Many of the subjects profiled in this groundbreaking new book have never spoken so candidly about their field, providing extremely provocative, newsworthy analysis of today's investing landscape.

©2012 Maneet Ahuja (P)2012 Gildan Media LLC
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"Maneet Ahuja's The Alpha Masters is a must for anyone working on Wall Street - or anyone planning to work on Wall Street. Getting even one of these titans of the industry to talk on record would be an impressive feat (and I know this because I've tried unsuccessfully to interview at least two of the people featured in here!), but getting all of them together in one place is simply herculean. Maneet quite clearly has the magic touch, and The Alpha Masters kept me busy on a round trip to Vegas, with a few extra hours on the tarmac. Great work, fun listen, and a unique, fresh voice." (Ben Mezrich, author of 12 books including the New York Times best sellers Bringing Down the House, which was adapted into the movie 21, and The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie The Social Network)

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Not for the individual trader/investor

If you want to know how to trade, get the far more informative and lively "Market Wizards". This book is a series of business biographies of hedge-fund managers and their various doings. All of them are discussed with wide-eyed amazement and an uncritical eye, which means the whole thing ends up turning into something of a glorification of "evil billionaires", all of whom reside in the same milieu of the Manhattan liberal ultra-wealthy. It's compounded by the fact that in this reviewers opinion, the stories are not told with any particular panache, which left me rather nodding off, despite my above average interest in the subject.

The situation is not helped by heavy and ponderous narration, I had to crank up the play-back speed to get to the end.

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