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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-10047006773X

ISBN-139780470067734

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038301896

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Book TitleHedgehogging

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicFinance / General, Investments & Securities / General

IllustratorYes

GenreBusiness & Economics

AuthorBarton Biggs

FormatPerfect

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" ... a real glimpse of the investing world... by telling individuals' stories, Biggs...reveals far more about the ups and downs of hedge fund investing than the usual numbers-heavy dissertations... reveals just what a whacky world many hedgers occupy" ("Daily Telegraph," 29 December 2005) About 10 years ago, I was sitting at lunch with Morgan Stanley's respected U.S. equity strategist Byron Wien and a number of other analysts. The bulls were running, and the media would routinely fixate on one or another rising young Wall Street strategist only to watch him burn out on a bad call or a bad year. Wall Street is notoriously a young man's game, yet year in and year out Wien and Morgan Stanley's global strategist Barton Biggs, both veterans in their 60s, werevoted the tops in their field. An analyst asked: "Byron, why do you suppose you and Barton seem to always be running ahead of your competitors, even though they're 20 years or more your junior?" Wien, usually not at a loss for words, paused for a few seconds. "I think it's because we love our jobs, and they hate theirs." In 2003, Barton Biggs went on to demonstrate the point. Long past the point of needing the money, the glory or the fame, Biggs and a couple of partners left Morgan Stanley and launched a global macro hedge fund, Traxis Partners. Being a venerated Wall Street figure did not spare Biggs the indignities of hedge-fund start-ups before him. He put on the dog and pony shows, trying to drum up capital. He suffered false promises and rejection. Hedge-fund managers' performance is typically a closely-guarded secret -- the Securities and Exchange Commission does not allow marketing orbragging -- but I can report from inside the business that Traxis has enjoyed very favorable returns in its young life. Biggs can most certainly walk the walk. Hedgehogging, his account of his hedge fund and Wall Street years, is evidence that Biggs is still at his best when he is talking the talk. Throughout his 40-plus-year career, Biggs (whom I never had the pleasure of meeting during my four years at Morgan Stanley as a research analyst) has been an innovator on both the "buy" and "sell" side of the Street. Back in the 1970s, he managed one of the early hedge funds; he later founded Morgan Stanley's equity-research department and then served as its global strategist, and was for a time a member of the Barron's Roundtable. Hedgehogging offers us telling glimpses of the characters that populate the hedge-fund world, and the unremitting daily pressure of running a marked-to-market hedge fund. We read about "Richard," a successful manager who had a bad habit of touting his stocks to other managers while selling as they bought, and "Grinning Gilbert" a red-hot hedge-fund manager in the go-go 1990s, whose wife "reinvested" his earnings in a share in Netjets, an expensive Greenwich home with a 5,000-bottle wine cellar, the requisite Scottish nanny and the usual charities. When Gilbert's fund flamed out, he became paralyzed with depression, closed the curtains and refused to leave his bed. Wife Sharon was left to tell his team of 12 that they no longer had jobs, and to liquidate the firm. Maybe I've been thinking about James Frey too much, but I should add that after reading more than a half dozen of these anonymous manager profiles, I did want to scream: "Who are thesefriggin' people?" As it happens, it has become something of a hedge-fund parlor game to try to figure out who is whom. Personally, I suspect one character, the likeable Greg, is based on Omega Capital's Leon Cooperman. Other hedge-fund luminaries, such as Mark Kingdon, Stanley Druckenmiller, Art Samberg, Richard Chilton and George Soros, also appear to make cameos, although the "fudge factor" in Biggs' composite sketches may be huge. Most writers realize they can improve sales by naming names, but Biggs is a businessman first, and making enemies does nothing to help his business. Biggs

Dewey Decimal332.645

Table Of ContentIntroduction. Chapter One. The Triangle Investment Club Dinner: Hacking Through the Hedgehog Jungle. Chapter Two. The New Hedgehogs May Have Been Golden Boys, but They Still Bleed Red. Chapter Three. Short Selling Oil: The Crude Joke Was on Us. Chapter Four. Short Selling is Not for Sissies. Chapter Five. The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund: A Desperate, Frantic Adventure. Chapter Six. The Roadshow Grind: Blood, Swat, Toil, and Tears. Chapter Seven. The Run-Up and Haunted by Remembrances and Doubt. Chapter Eight. Hedgehogs Come in All Sizes and Shapes. Chapter Nine. The Violence of Secular Market Cycles. Chapter Ten. The Battle for Investment Survival: Only Egotists or Fools Try to Pick Tops and Bottoms. Chapter Eleven. From One Generation to Another: Bismarck and the Yale Endowment. Chapter Twelve. Nature's Mysticism and Groupthink Stinks. Chapter Thirteen. The Internet Bubble: I'd Still Rather Have Air-Conditioning. Chapter Fourteen. Great Investment Managers Are Intense, Disciplined Maniacs. Chapter Fifteen. You're Only as beloved as Your Most Recent Performance. Chapter Sixteen. Once You Have a Fortune, How can You Hang on to It? Chapter Seventeen. Three Investment Religions: Growth, Value, and Agnostic. Chapter Eighteen. The Trouble with Being Big. Chapter Nineteen. Bubbles and True Believer. Chapter Twenty. Divine Intervention or Inside Information? A Tale That Will Make Your Blood Run Cold. Chapter Twenty-One. John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Hedge-Fund manager, and Fascinating Character. Conclusion. Recommended Reading.

SynopsisFilled with in-depth insights and valuable lessons, the stories and events described throughout the book offer a rare glimpse of the investment business and the people who are a part of it--as told by a Wall Street legend., PRAISE FOR HEDGEHOGGING "Barton Biggs writes about markets with grater style, clarity, and insight than any other observer of the Wall Street scene. his new book, Hedgehogging, entertains immensely even as it provides countless valuable lessons regarding hedge funds and the investment world they inhabit." - David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University "Since the glory days of the tech bubble, investing has become a perilous enterprise. Not the least for those running money in the proliferating hedge fund business. In hedgehogging, Biggs offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the personalities and egos making decisions about the enormous sums being dumped en masse into these funds. This book is great, Its full of personal anecdotes and critical insights from an insiders insider. You should not even consider giving money to anyone on Wall Street ever again until youve read this book." - Addison Wiggin, Agora Financial LLC, author of the New York Times bestseller The Demise of the Dollar, and coauthor of Empire of Debt Rare is the Opportunity to chat with a legendary figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world., Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world., Barton Biggs is one of the most well-respected figures in the investment management community. He has prospered during both bull and bear markets, and has adapted to an investment landscape that has been transformed by technology and globalization.

LC Classification NumberHG4530.B516 2008