Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press))
by Sebastian Mallaby
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Tim Ferriss and Paul Graham
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss, and Most Recommended Books.
"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of largerthanlife characters and dramatic tales." The Washington Post Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge fund...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss, and Most Recommended Books.
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Consider Principles by Ray Dalio. Recommended by 61 sources.
“This is Dalio’s operating manual for life and work—part memoir, part handbook. He distills his hedge fund’s culture into repeatable 'principles' for radical transparency and systematic thinking. The useful part is the concrete algorithms for error-logging and group decision-making; the annoying part is the cultish fervor around his own brilliance and the implication that his way scales universally. It reads like a boss’s extended memo, sometimes riveting, sometimes eye-rolling.”
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