Research handbook on hedge funds, private equity and alternative investments / edited by Phoebus Athanassiou.

pt. A Foundations
1. Hedge funds : an introduction / Ludwig Chincarini
2. Europe's hedge fund industry : an overview / Francois-Serge Lhabitant
3. Sovereign-wealth funds : a paradigm shift in capital flows in the global economy / Dilip K. Das
4. Private equity funds' performance, risk and selection / Ludovic Phalippou
pt. B Regulatory issues
5. Alternative investments and retail investors : a bold but risky experiment / Harry McVea
6. Hedge fund reporting / Felix Goltz and David Schröder
7. Hedge fund activism / Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim
8. Hedge funds and the detection of managerial fraud / Veronika Krepely Pool
9. Self-regulation : what future in the context of hedge funds? / Marco Lamandini
10. Hedge fund regulation through competition law principles : some reflections / David Harrison
pt. C Alternative investment funds : failures and financial crises
11. Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management and Amaranth Advisors / Mark Jickling
12. Hedge funds and their impact on systemic stability / Maria Strömqvist
13. Sovereign default risks in the Economic and Monetary Union and the role of vulture funds / Peter Yeoh
pt. D Comparative perspectives and future prospects
14. US regulation of investment advisers and private investment funds : a concise overview / Nathan Greene and John Adams
15. German alternative investment fund regulation : wrong answers to the wrong questions? / Norbert Lang
16. Hedge funds, private equity and alternative investment in Australia / Alex Erskine
17. The EU's AIFM Directive and its impact : an overview / Phoebus Athanassiou and Thomas Bullman
18. The domestic rooting of financial regulation in an era of global capital markets / Thomas Oatley and W. Kindred Winecoff.