Hedge Fund Leadership: How To Inspire Peak Performance from Traders and Money Managers
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Hedge Fund Leadership skillfully explains how to assemble, motivate, and manage a group of traders within a fund and sheds much-needed light on the importance of aligning traders with the overall vision and goals of a hedge fund. Author Ari Kiev shares his perspectives on various leadership themes and discusses how a delicate balance between empowerment and control must be struck in order to enhance the performance of todays hedge fund.
Author’s Introduction:
For those of you who are already at a hedge fund or are contemplating accepting a position at one, the quality of leadership is undoubtedly a major factor in job choice and satisfaction. And even if you are not the CEO or the top manager, leadership is still an important issue for you. If you are a trader, you are a leader when you are trying to get analysts to give you better material. If you are a portfolio manager, you face leadership challenges when you deal with your traders and analysts.
That is why I have written this book—with the purpose of sharing my perspectives on various leadership themes that I have been exploring over the last several years with hedge fund managers in a variety of organizations. The key issues in my consultations and training programs have expanded from trading psychology and risk management to other issues such as communication, conflict resolution, and personal empowerment.
The world is an ever-changing, sometimes fear-filled place in which your career, your relationships, and your long-held beliefs often face dizzying challenges, a truth that all of us learned anew on September 11, 2001. Staying focused, keeping your balance, maintaining a sense of openness and optimism each day, and showing those around how to do the same can be a struggle. Achieving goals that you set for yourself can be remarkably satisfying, but becoming a leader and empowering others can offer you even greater psychological rewards. The principles outlined in this book will help open the door for you to learn how to do just that.
Contents:
- Developing Good Leadership
- The Value of a Vision
- Assembling Your Team
- Refining Your Team
- Building Momentum
- Sustaining Momentum
- Transcending Self-Imposed Limits
- Empowering Others
Hedge Fund Leadership: How To Inspire Peak Performance from Traders and Money Managers By Ari Kiev pdf
4 reviews for Hedge Fund Leadership: How To Inspire Peak Performance from Traders and Money Managers
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Marley Norton (verified owner) –
Kiev’s Hedge Fund Leadership is a timely exploration of the managerial challenges facing today’s hedge fund leaders. Powerful, dynamic issues such as creating a vision, recruiting, empowerment, and incentive structure are masterfully related by Kiev to the hedge fund business model in this groundbreaking work.
Yasmin Bruce (verified owner) –
Here, as in other books, Ari shares his unique and extremely helpful insights and strategies to advance the portfolio manager from stock-picker to DEO, leader, and business builder. This book will be of great interest and value to those aspiring to manage a large hedge fund as well as to those already succeeding at that endeavor.
Lane Alfaro (verified owner) –
So how inspiring should a hedge fund manager be? In light of the recent and ongoing debacles on Wall Street, and the mostly subpar performances of hedge funds, perhaps this book is necessary. Offering advice about how to boost morale amongst the traders and other staff.
Some of the advice is fairly general. Like eliminating or at least reducing non-productive behaviours. Applicable in any workplace. There is other feel good stuff scattered throughout the book. It seems like the financial workplace has a need (probably more so right now) for an antidote to heavy stress.
Ahmir Fletcher (verified owner) –
Ari Kiev’s books on the psychological element of trading are pure gold. He has given away the “keys to the kingdom” by sharing so much valuable knowledge. Some of them are literally worth their weight in gold.
This book, “Hedge Fund Leadership” charts a different course. It is specifically targeted at those who would lead Hedge funds and build teams of analysts and PMs. The advice is useful for them, if a bit general at times. The interviews are some of the best parts of the book.
There is very little for individual PMs or analysts here, other than a peek at the issues at the management side of their business.
Solid advice, but only for the target audience.