More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
Description
One of the authors of the most striking feature Sebastian Mallaby’s ‘More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite,’ is how thoroughly researched it is. With over 50+ pages of notes at the end of its 500+ pages, it contains research notes and comprehensive citations that lead to a wide range of excellent sources. ‘More Money than God’ does more than account for the details of the hedge fund industry, and it includes Mallaby’s analysis and justifications of how different funds type work and how some have prevailed through the evolution of the financial industry while others do not. Truly an exceptional read that presents its observations even-handedly in an insightful yet authoritative manner. Those who pick up this book will be in for a haul, yet will still be worth your time.
About the Author
Sebastian Christopher Peter Mallaby (or widely known as Sebastian Mallaby) is an English journalist and author born in May 1964. Formerly as a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post, his recent work has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly. He has additionally penned and published other works such as ‘The World’s Banker’ in 2004 and ‘The Man Who Knew’ in 2016.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Alpha Game
- Big Daddy
- The Block Trader
- Paul Samuel’s Secret
- The Alchemist
- Top Cat
- Rock and Roll Cowboy
- White Wednesday
- Hurricane Greenspan
- Soros versus Soros
- The Enemy is Us
- The Dot-Com Double
- The Yale Men
- The Code Breakers
- Premonitions of a Crisis
- Riding the Storm
- “How Could They Do This?”
- Conclusion: Scarier than what?
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix I: Do the Tiger Funds Generate Alpha?
- Appendix II: Performance of the Pioneers
- Notes
- Index
- Photo Credits
