Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, Fourth Edition provides a real-world view of this fast-evolving field, reviewing and analyzing recent innovations and developments. This reference captures the actual work of bankers and professional investors, providing readers with templates for real transactions and insight on how investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms provide services to each other while creating opportunities for corporations and investors to raise capital, invest, hedge, finance, acquire, divest, and risk manage. For each type of institution, the business model, organizational structure, products, challenges, regulatory issues, and profit-making opportunities are explained.\nIn addition, specific transactions are analyzed to make clear how advisory services, financings, investments, and trades produce profits or losses, and which types of risks are most commonly taken by each type of institution. Importantly, the linkage of investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity to corporations, governments, and individuals is described, enabling the reader to more clearly understand how these organizations impact them and how their products and services can be best utilized.\nIntegrates case studies with relevant chapters in the book to create real world applications of chapter teachings\nEmploys spreadsheet models to enable readers to create analytical frameworks for considering choices, opportunities, and risks described in the cases\nAnalyzes specific transactions to make clear how advisory services, financings, investments, and trades produce profits or lossesInvestment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity 4th Edition is written by David P. Stowell; Paul Stowell and published by Academic Press. ISBNs for Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity are 9780323984492, 0323984495 and the print ISBNs are 9780323884518, 0323884512.