Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals: Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge

Preface

It is strange how many great ideas and relationships happen by being in the right place at the right time. This book is a result of such timing and luck. Last summer, a colleague at Bloomberg, Kathleen Peterson, came to me looking for a current hot topic for the Bloomberg Press financial book series. At the time, I had been having discussions with Richard Horwitz at Kenmar about a new way of providing hedge fund risk reporting through the Bloomberg Professional service. It was a natural to suggest Richard's “solution” for tracking hedge fund risk as a topic for a book. This is especially true in light of the considerable press coverage surrounding developments emanating out of Washington, D.C. related to hedge fund regulation and transparency. ...