More money than God: hedge funds and the making of a new elite

By:

Mallaby, Sebastian

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books Ltd. London 2010Description: 482 pISBN:

9780143119418

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DDC classification:

332.64524 MAL

Summary: Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first-century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009-and explains why understanding the history of hedge funds is key to predicting the future of finance.

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Book	Jammu General Stacks	Non-fiction	332.64524 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		IIMJ-5573

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Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first-century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge funds cracked its mysteries and made fortunes in the process. Drawing on his unprecedented access to the industry, esteemed financial writer Sebastian Mallaby tells the inside story of the hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009-and explains why understanding the history of hedge funds is key to predicting the future of finance.

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