nature of the financial system’s collapse has primarily added to the difficultnesses facing the world’s housing markets.
• Some national governments are experiencing difficultness in refinancing their national debt, putting their currencies under pressure. Currency instability is likely to irritate housing sector difficulties in countries where some loans were taken out in a alien currency.
The positive news is that the US government and assorted others are acting with vigour, as has the IMF. Nevertheless, there is a long tough road ahead.
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Steven Drobny is cofounder and collaborator of Drobny Global Advisors (DGA), an international macroeconomic exploration and advisory firm that counts galore of the leading international hedge funds as clients. Prior to starting DGA, Drobny worked for Deutsche Bank’s Hedge Fund Group in London, Singapore, and Zurich. Drobny holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University. Please visit www.insidethehouseofmoney.com for more info on Drobny, DGA, and this book.
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 Awesome clear or deep perception into the world of Global Macro hedge funds.
By Ronin
Steven Drobny delivers a treasure trove of utile selective information in a very readable and user-friendly format. The book focuses on Global Macro hedge funds, providing a history starting with GM pioneer John Maynard Keynes to the mega funds run by Soros and Robertson, to the 21st century evolution of the leaner funds and their tactics. After describing the function and history of Global Macro, Mr. Drobny takes us deep into the minds of the operators themselves with over a dozen arousing and attention holding interviews.
For those who are new to the subject, Global Macro is basically a fund whose approach allows them to act nimbly in any global market using any class of asset including stocks, bonds, currency, and commodities. These funds apply a wide potpourri of hedging and arbitrage systems using complex compoundings of assets, and perpetually seek out anomalies in any market that may offer superior returns.
I peculiarly liked the consultation with Jim Leitner who has a very personal and unorthodox style that is hard not to marvel at. Jim offers this definition of GM, “The willingness to opportunistically look at each idea that comes along, from micro situations to country-specific situations, all over each asset category and each country in the world. Its the combining of a wide top-down country analysis with a bottom-up micro analysis of companies. In a lot of cases, after we make our country decisions, we then drill down and make an analyzation of the companies in the spheres that ought to do well in light of our macro view….Macro themes conveyed in a micro style. Global Macro only means that you begin at the top and work your way down.” Jim likewise says that if there was only one thing he could ever read before choosing investments, it would be “The Economist”.
If you are curious in regards to hedge funds you will find this glimpse into the rarefied world of Global Macro a real eye opener. If you are an capitalist or investment professional, the book is loaded with gems of retail strategy. There are galore outstanding charts all around the book, but it is not bogged down with heavy math. The format is similar to the Market Wizard books and there is something for every one here. The main divergence amid this new edition and the 2006 is the addition of 2 new appendixes by Dr. Lee R Thomas III: “The Crash of ’08″; and “Who Controls Liquidity?”. Enjoy.
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Master’s of the Universe
By MKM
I thought I would lose interest in this book as it is a Q and A Interview style rather than a narrative style. However the book captured my interest from the very firstborn profile. It was a outstanding mix of marketing philosophy, how they got into global macro investing, and their perspective on their world view. It was arousing and attention holding to see the intellectual challenge that global macro investing presents. The breadth of noesis the profiled traders learn and use covers history, finance, economics, politics, psychology and a lot of other areas. In addition the Steven Drobny’s questions lead to answers that are contrary to our conventional view of the Master’s of the Universe: they recognise they will make faults and tailor their approach to be ready for it and learn from it. My favored chapters were the ones on Leitner, Thiel, Anderson, and Dimitrijevic. The last two profiles were weaker equated to the others but I still gave the book five stars taking into account I started out with a negative view of the book based on narrative style.
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