Alternative Investments: Instruments, Performance, Benchmarks, and Strategies

A comprehensive guide to alternative investments that reveals today's latest research and strategiesHistorically low interest rates and bear markets in world stock markets have generated intense interest in alternative investments. With returns in traditional investment vehicles relatively low, many professional investors view alternative investments as a means of meeting their return objectives. Alternative Investments: Instruments, Performance, Benchmarks, and Strategies, can put you in a better position to achieve this difficult goal. Part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, Alternative Investments provides an in-depth discussion of the historic performance, benchmarks, and strategies of every major alternative investment market. With contributions from professionals and academics around the world, it offers valuable insights on the latest trends, research, and thinking in each major area. Empirical evidence about each type of alternative investment is featured, with research presented in a straightforward manner. Examines a variety of major alternative asset classes, from real estate, private equity, and commodities to managed futures, hedge funds, and distressed securitiesProvides detailed insights on the latest research and strategies, and offers a thorough explanation of historical performance, benchmarks, and other critical informationBlends knowledge from the conceptual world of scholars with the pragmatic view of practitioners in this field Alternative investments provide a means of diversification, risk control, and return enhancement and, as such, are attractive to many professional investors. If you're looking for an effective way to hone your skills in this dynamic area of finance, look no further than this book.Content: Chapter 1 Alternative Investments: An Overview (pages 1–17): H. Kent Baker and Greg FilbeckChapter 2 The Role of Alternative Investments in Strategic Asset Allocation (pages 19–36): Douglas Cumming, Lars Helge Ha? and Denis SchweizerChapter 3 Trends in Alternative Investments (pages 37–52): Erik BenrudChapter 4 Alternative Investments and Due Diligence (pages 53–75): Gokhan AfyonogluChapter 5 REITs and the Private Real Estate Market (pages 77–97): Shaun A. Bond and Qingqing ChangChapter 6 Commercial Real Estate (pages 99–117): Peter ChinloyChapter 7 Real Estate Investment Trusts (pages 119–141): Brad CaseChapter 8 Mortgaged?Backed Securities (pages 143–162): Eric J. HigginsChapter 9 Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity in Real Estate (pages 163–183): Andrew R. BermanChapter 10 Real Estate Appraisal and Valuation (pages 185–211): Jeffrey D. Fisher and Demetrios Louziotis, Jr.Chapter 11 Performance of Real Estate Portfolios (pages 213–237): David GeltnerChapter 12 Venture Capital (pages 239–262): Tom Vanacker and Sophie ManigartChapter 13 Mezzanine Capital (pages 263–280): Sameer Jain and Phillip MyburghChapter 14 Buyout Funds (pages 281–302): Christian Rauch and Mark WahrenburgChapter 15 Distressed Debt Investing (pages 303–321): Michelle M. Harner, Paul E. Harner, Catherine M. Martin and Aaron M. SingerChapter 16 Performance of Private Equity (pages 323–344): Christoph Kaserer and Rudiger StuckeChapter 17 Private Equity: Risk and Return Profile (pages 345–362): Axel Buchner, Arif Khurshed and Abdulkadir MohamedChapter 18 Investing in Commodities (pages 363–380): Claudio BoidoChapter 19 Performance of Commodities (pages 381–398): Andrew ClarkChapter 20 Commodity Futures and Strategic Asset Allocation (pages 399–418): Yongyang Su, Marco C. K. Lau and Frankie ChauChapter 21 Managed Futures: Markets, Investment Characteristics, and Role in a Portfolio (pages 419–435): Davide AccomazzoChapter 22 An Overview of Managed Futures' Performance: 1983 to Post?2008 Credit Crisis (pages 437–452): Kai?Hong TeeChapter 23 Investing in Hedge Funds (pages 453–474): Hunter M. HolzhauerChapter 24 Performance of Hedge Funds (pages 475–494): Dianna PreeceChapter 25 Hedge Funds and Risk Management (pages 495–519): Theodore SyriopoulosChapter 26 Hedge Funds and the Financial Crisis (pages 521–539): Jing?Zhi Huang and Ying WangChapter 27 Hedge Funds: Replication and Nonlinearities (pages 541–566): Mikhail Tupitsyn and Paul LajbcygierChapter 28 Fund?of?Funds: A Tale of Two Fees (pages 567–586): Kartik Patel

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