| Value Hedging P Contributor(s): Orol (Author) |
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ISBN: 047045024X ISBN-13: 9780470450246 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: An inside look at an innovative group of hedge fund managers who are shaking up the corporate establishment Activist hedge fund managers are small in numbers in the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry, but their approach has caused a stir in the investment community because their unconventional investments pay off in a big way in both strong and weak economies. Extreme Value Hedging tells the story of their rise to power in the US and how they are spreading their influential gospel around the globe. Author Ronald Orol has a unique understanding of this world, and he shares his unparalleled insights on everything from activist efforts to break up clubby corporate boardrooms to their pressure tactics and courtroom battles. Ronald D. Orol (Washington, D.C.) is a senior writer for The Deal and The Daily Deal, covering the activist hedge fund industry and the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - Futures |
| Dewey: 332.645 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.1" W x 8.86" (1.06 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Activist hedge fund managers represent a small part of the $1.5 trillion hedge fund industry, but their approach is causing a stir among traditional managers and the investment community because they are shaking up the corporate establishment and making money for their investors. These types of managers are here to stay and Extreme Value Hedging tells the story of their rise to power in the U.S. and how they are spreading their influential gospel around the globe to places like China, Ukraine, South Korea and Sweden. Author Ronald D. Orol has a unique understanding of this world and through this book he shares his unparalleled insights in an easy to comprehend manner. He discusses everything from activist investor efforts to breakup the clubby insider world of corporate boardrooms to their deal-making or breaking pressure tactics and courtroom battles. Orol skillfully makes his case for each subject by offering revelations and examples from insiders like Ralph Whitworth, (Relational Investors), Guy Wyser-Pratte, (Wyser-Pratte Management), Mark Schwarz, (Newcastle Capital Group LLC), Robert Chapman (Chapman Capital), Phillip Goldstein (Opportunity Partners), Jeffrey Ubben (ValueAct Capital), Jeffrey M. Solomon (Ramius Capital Group LLC), Michael Van Biema (Van Biema Value Partners), Eric Rosenfeld (Crescendo Partners), Lars F rberg (Cevian Capital) and Emanuel Pearlman (Liberation Investment Group), among many, many others. |