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The Financial Risks Taken with Alternative Investments

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Alternative Investments and the Mismanagement of Risk
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Hedge funds have strategies, and there are plenty of them. The most important, such as macromarkets, going short, market neutral, private equity, structured approaches, emerging industries, emerging countries have been introduced in Chapter 1. We will look at the way in which they are implemented in this chapter and in Chapters 5 and 6.

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  5. For example: Basle Committee on Banking Supervision ‘Public Disclosures by Banks: Results of the 2000 Disclosure Survey’, Bank for International Settlements, Basle, May 2002.

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Chorafas, D.N. (2003). The Financial Risks Taken with Alternative Investments. In: Alternative Investments and the Mismanagement of Risk. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508941_4

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