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The title alone is cause for laughter hedge funds for dummies

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It is also sad the industry becoming mainstream so fast is somewhat sad in a sense that it loses some of its exclusivity

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The target audience is not as the title rhetorically suggests idiots but reasonably educated and curious people essentially people who buy books for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and insight rather than public display

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A balance between explaining or highlighting the theory including where the theory breaks down or is a poor description of investment reality on one hand and having the investor in mind on the other

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Hedge funds for dummies seeks to create a reference for the rest of us on how to use hedge funds to improve portfolio performance

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It goes well beyond what you would expect from a book with such a whimsical title

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Hedge funds have been in the news lately but not necessarily for their supposed out performance characteristics

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Nine hedge funds for example amaranth advisors have closed their doors in the past year some because of outsized bets by traders on the wrong side of the markets they were trading