If you have read "Too big to fail", "House of Cards", "Big Short", "Lords of Finance", "Fool's Gold", etc. you will like this book better. More wisdom based on incredible research and interviews. I was initially resistant to Mallaby's recommendations about financial reform, but he sold me based on reasoning well supported by evidence. The clearest, most readable and reasoned discussions of the efficient-market theory and Soros' reflexivity. If you don't know those terms, read this book anyway. He will at the end and you'll be glad whether you interest is investing or just voting. This is scholarship dressed up as popular non-fiction. On a par with Tom Wolfe and Malcolm Gladwell for bringing non-fiction to a wide audience.

I thought this was a great overview of the hedge fund industry. In truth the older stuff, like A.W. Jones, is vastly less interesting to me that the more current history, I could have used a bit less of that, but it does provide valuable context I suppose.

Couldn't come at a more appropriate time... sheds more light than ever on the minds behind the largest global macro funds... reveals the intricacies of thinking like a hedge fund manager.

Read this before I started working in the capital markets and have continued to re-read it each and every year. The set-up is very similar to Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager, but provides a new insight from global traders' point of views, all who come from various disciplines.

I previously worked in the hedge-fund industry and now teach college students about finance. Therefore, I found Barton Biggs' anecdotes both instructive and amusing, having seen some of the poor lifestyle choices that some hedge fund managers ("hedgehogs", according to Byron) make. However, the book's strength is not an "inside look" into the world of hedgehogs, but a series of instructive vignettes about how to be an "investor".

Here's the bottom line. If you could find ten books like this, you would be better off owning the knowledge in them, instead of getting yourself an MBA in finance from any of the top business schools in this country. A book like this is that important, that influential, and that informative. You would have to own the knowledge in this book, not just read it casually. You would need a pen to underline, to take notes, to write in the margins, to make this knowledge yours, and then with some experience, you would become AN INVESTOR. Good luck, and I say that respectfully.

This book delivered what I was looking for and more. I needed an introduction to hedge funds and the industry and the book does an excellent job of providing this information in complete and concise detail. In addition, the book also gives a good overview of portfolio theory and how it relates to actual practice. There is also a section that describes the prevalent hedge fund strategies with historical performances. I highly recommend this book to those interested in starting their own fund or wishing to work in the industry.

This book was what I was looking for. It's a nice introduction to hedge funds and the industry. The book does an excellent job of providing the information in complete and concise detail. I bought my copy used so I'm even more happy with it.

All I can say is I wish I had the Wall Street Oasis Behavioral Guide before I went into my banking interviews. I was well prepared for some of the fit questions that came my way, but others challenged me. With the extensive number of questions in this guide and the sample answers, I would have felt prepared to handle almost anything.

I didn't read Wall Street Oasis Technical and Behavioral Interview guides until after my first year in my MBA program, and frankly they contained everything I had spent the last year learning to get a job on the Street. I highly recommend them to anyone preparing for an interview, finance or other. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than an MBA (not to mention faster and more to the point).