Hedgehogging

Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.

Barton Biggs spent thirty years at Morgan Stanley. In that time, he formed the firm's number-one-ranked research department, built up its investment management business, and served as chairman of the investment management firm. At various times during this period, he was ranked as the number one U.S. investment strategist by the Institutional Investor magazine poll and then, from 1996 to 2003, as the number one global strategist. He was also a member of the five-man executive committee that ran the firm until its merger with Dean Witter in 1996. In 2003, Biggs left Morgan Stanley and, with two other colleagues, formed Traxis Partners. Traxis now has well over a billion dollars under its management. Biggs' latest book, Wealth, War, and Wisdom, is also published by Wiley.

Introduction	p. ix
The Triangle Investment Club Dinner: Hacking Through the Hedgehog Jungle	p. 1
The New Hedgehogs May Have Been Golden Boys, but They Still Bleed Red	p. 9
Short Selling Oil: The Crude Joke Was on Us	p. 21
Short Selling Is Not for Sissies	p. 34
The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund: A Desperate, Frantic Adventure	p. 46
The Roadshow Grind: Blood, Sweat, Toil, and Tears	p. 63
The Run-Up and Haunted by Remembrances and Doubt	p. 80
Hedgehogs Come in All Sizes and Shapes	p. 95
The Violence of Secular Market Cycles	p. 119
The Battle for Investment Survival: Only Egotists or Fools Try to Pick Tops and Bottoms	p. 133
From One Generation to Another: Bismarck and the Yale Endowment	p. 149
Nature's Mysticism and Groupthink Stinks	p. 162
The Internet Bubble: I'd Still Rather Have Air-Conditioning	p. 178
Great Investment Managers Are Intense, Disciplined Maniacs	p. 192
You're Only as Beloved as Your Most Recent Performance	p. 204
Once You Have a Fortune, How Can You Hang On to It?	p. 219
Three Investment Religions: Growth, Value, and Agnostic	p. 239
The Trouble with Being Big	p. 247
Bubbles and the True Believer	p. 259
Divine Intervention or Inside Information? A Tale That Will Make Your Blood Run Cold	p. 269
John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Hedge-Fund Manager, and Fascinating Character	p. 285
Conclusion	p. 305
Recommended Reading	p. 307
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