Gregoriou, Greg N, Dr

Hedge Funds: Strategies, Risk Assessment, and Returns Gregoriou, Greg N, Dr

Publisher Marketing: Twenty-one contributions from academics and practitioners discuss recent research on hedge funds. Aimed at investment professionals and high net worth individuals, the text deals with current methods of hedge fund tracking, evaluation, and selection. Sample topics include convertible arbitrage funds Contributor Bio:  Gregoriou, Greg N, Dr Greg N. Gregoriou is Professor of Finance in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. He holds a Ph. D. in finance from the University of Quebec in Montreal. Gregoriou specializes in hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and managed futures. He has published 26 books and more than 50 journal articles and serves as hedge fund editor for the "Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds" and editorial board member of the "Journal of Wealth Management" and the "Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions". Christian Hoppe works as senior specialist for securitization and credit derivatives in the credit portfolio management in the corporate banking of Commerzbank AG Frankfurt. Prior to this, he was credit portfolio manager at Dresdner Kleinwort, the Investment Bank arm of Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt. He started his career as a Business and Financial Controller for Dresdner Bank. While earning his master's degree, Hoppe served in the Institutional Research Department of Benchmark Alternative Strategies GmbH, Frankfurt. He is the author of "Derivatives Based on Alternative Investments". Contributor Bio:  Rouah, Fabrice Douglas Fabrice Douglas Rouah is a Senior Quantitative Analyst at a large financial firm in Boston. He is coauthor and coeditor of four books on hedge funds and CTAs. This is his third book with John Wiley & Sons. Gregory Vainberg is a Corporate Risk Specialist at a large consulting firm in Montreal. He is also the creator of the top finance and math VBA Web site, www.vbnumericalmethods.com.