内容简介

The first authoritative history of hedge funds-from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.

Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews,More Money Than Godtells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007- 2009.

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-firstcentury capitalism. Ken Griffin of Citadel started out trading convertible bonds from his dorm room at Harvard. Julian Robertson staffed his hedge fund with college athletes half his age, then he flew them to various retreats in the Rockies and raced them up the mountains. Paul Tudor Jones posed for a magazine photograph next to a killer shark and happily declared that a 1929- style crash would be "total rock-and-roll" for him. Michael Steinhardt was capable of reducing underlings to sobs. "All I want to do is kill myself," one said. "Can I watch?" Steinhardt responded.

Finance professors have long argued that beating the market is impossible, and yet drawing on insights from physics, economics, and psychology, these titans have cracked the market's mysteries and gone on to earn fortunes. Their innovation has transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism.

More than just a history,More Money Than Godis a window on tomorrow's financial system. Hedge funds have been left for dead after past financial panics: After the stock market rout of the early 1970s, after the bond market bloodbath of 1994, after the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and yet again after the dot-com crash in 2000. Each time, hedge funds have proved to be survivors, and it would be wrong to bet against them now. Banks such as CitiGroup, brokers such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, home lenders such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, insurers such as AIG, and money market funds run by giants such as Fidelity-all have failed or been bailed out. But the hedge fund industry has survived the test of 2008 far better than its rivals. The future of finance lies in the history of hedge funds.

作者简介

塞巴斯蒂安•马拉比

保罗•沃尔克时期对外关系委员会国际经济高级研究员，《华盛顿邮报》的专栏作家。

他在《经济学人》杂志工作了13年，在《华盛顿邮报》编委会工作了8年，主要专注于经济全球化和政治经济领域。

他的著作包括2004年出版的《世界银行家》（The World’s Banker）和1992年出版的《后种族隔离时代》（After Apartheid），两本书均入选《纽约时报》推荐书目。

精彩摘录

1，投资者的心理模式琼斯相信投资者的心理造成了股票价格的趋势性。股市的上涨使投资者变得乐观，进而使得市场进一步上涨，然后投资者更加乐观，往复循环。这种循环使得股票价格上涨，形成了一个可以据此获利的趋势。当投资者心理逆转的时候，这种假象就会破灭：当这种循环将价格推到一个不可支撑的水平，贪婪就会转向恐惧，变动就会逆转。2，成功的市场预测无法持续，预测趋势的每个过程都可能破坏它。一旦他们的见解被足够多的投资者所理解，获利机会就会消失，因为市场已经变得更加有效。琼斯自身就是极好的例子：随着琼斯的成功，类似的对冲基金不断崛起，在1970年，琼斯终于被市场赶上。3，琼斯的创新之一：风险对冲他通过“投机的手段达到保守的目的”，他总是这样说。既便那些图表没有迹象表明市场要跌，琼斯也通过做空一部分股票作为一种惯常的预防措施，以保证他的投资组合能够对抗市场风险。用价值70000美元的空头平衡70000美元的多头，所以他的“净持有”为60000美元，而第一个投资者是80000美元。这样，对冲基金的投资者就同时拥有了较低的择股风险（因为多样化）和较低的市场风险（因为套期保值）。4，琼斯的创新之二：从股票波幅衡量收益来源琼斯的另一个创新是将他的基金通过选股所赚的钱和通过规避市场风险所赚的钱进行了比较。多年以后，这种区别变成了老生常谈：投资者将技术性的选股收益称为“α”，消极地通过规避市场风险赚取的收益则称为“β”。

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1，投资风格：逆向操作，在股价增长，股市处于政治和经济都判断失误的背景之下的情况下，仍然增加空头头寸。2，将货币分析应用到股票市场3，通过大额交易获得更高的折扣

——引自第330页