Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice

Acknowledgments

Writing Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions as first-time authors, we did not know what to expect. I felt privileged to work with a publisher like Wiley, learned a tremendous amount from our subjects, made new friends, and had new experiences. I found the process challenging, frightening, and gratifying.

Two years later, writing Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice, I again learned a lot, met and worked with wonderful people, and experienced frustrating and satisfying moments. Yet enough had changed—namely, economic conditions—and enough had stayed the same—books take the same amount of time to write every time—that I had a completely different, humbling experience. But in the end, we have proudly produced another book about interesting investors that other investors and readers should find valuable.

Neither of us could have accomplished this project on our own, and we could not have done it without the people we recognize and thank here.

First, the extraordinary hedge fund researcher and author Alexander Ineichen deserves our praise. We relied on his work extensively. He delivers knowledge and historical perspective with edgy humor and authority.

A number of individuals helped us identify top hedge fund investors to serve as profile subjects, made crucial introductions, or provided the means for us to make important connections and promote the project. They include the following: ...