Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
• Alpha Magazine:   Published by the journal Institutional Investor, this monthly publication is devoted to hedge funds, and publishes rankings of the largest funds, the highest paid managers, and more. Short excerpts of some articles and rankings are available at this website but most content is limited to subscribers. The Foster Business Library is not a subscriber and the content of this publication is unavailable in the library's full text databases.

• Bloomberg Markets Magazine:   Published by Bloomberg, this publication is unavailable in the library's full text databases. See their articles entitled The Money Makers, and The Code Breaker, dated January 2008, while they are available.

• Hedge Fund Association:   "The Hedge Fund Association is an international not-for-profit association of hedge fund managers, service providers, and investors formed to unite the hedge fund industry and add to the increasing awareness of the advantages and opportunities in hedge funds." This site lacks a search engine. See About Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Articles, and Press Releases.

• Hedge Fund Center:   Dating from 1998, the "Hedge Fund Center is unique from all other hedge fund resources because it is completely unbiased. Unlike other hedge fund web sites, the Center is not aligned or associated with any investment manager or consulting firm." See their hedge fund Basics, Industry News, and Hedge Fund Facts.

• Investment Company Institute:   The Investment Company Institute "is the national association of the U.S. investment company industry. Founded in 1940, its membership includes approximately 8,668 mutual funds, 611 closed-end funds, 111 exchange-traded funds, and six sponsors of unit investment trusts. Its mutual fund members represent 86.6 million individual shareholders and manage approximately $7.4 trillion in investor assets." See The Differences Between Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds.

• Managed Funds Association:   This association's "is the voice of the global alternative investment industry. Its members include professionals in hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures funds. Established in 1991, MFA is the primary source of information for policymakers and the media and the leading advocate for sound business practices and industry growth." See their Industry Overview and links to related FAQ's, as well as the link to their Sound Practices for Hedge Fund Managers.

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:   "The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation." See their Spotlight on Hedge Funds and Hedging Your Bets.

• Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia, Wikipedia, can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. See their entry for Hedge Fund.

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
• Encyclopedia of business ethics and society.
  This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.

  See Hedge Funds in volume three, on pages 1059 to 1061.

• A financial history of the United States.
  This three-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. financial history from 1492 to 2001, with a combination of "broad stroke history and lively anecdote," written single-handed by a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG181 .M297 2001.

  See Hedge Funds in volume two, on pages 358 to 359, and in volume three, pages 316 to 318 (on Long-Term Capital Management).

• The handbook of alternative assets.
  This handbook covers hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4530 .A57 2002.

  See section one, for Hedge Funds, on pages nine to 173.

• Nelson Information's directory of investment managers.
  This three-volume publication is an index to over 1,800 investment firms in the U.S. and abroad, that provide investment services to the institutional market, with extensive manager profiles, followed by indexes to the profiles (by metropolitan area, ranked by assets, investment specialties, products offered, investment funds and partnerships, and minority and women-owned firms.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4907 .N44 2004.

  See volume three, for their listing of Hedge Fund firms, on pages 5904 to 5908. In this volume, see pages 5545 and 5546 for an index of Washington state investment managers.

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A keyword search for Hedge Funds produced over forty records in the UW Libraries, with nineteen records in the Foster Business Library, including:

• Hedge funds demystified: a self-teaching guide   (2008)
• A demon of our own design: markets, hedge funds, and the perils of financial innovation   (2007)
• SuperCash: the new hedge fund capitalism   (2006)
• Hedge hogging   (2006)
• Evaluating hedge fund performance   (2006)
• Inside the house of money: top hedge fund traders on profiting in a global market   (2006)
• Evaluating hedge fund and CTA performance   (2005)
• Getting started in hedge funds   (2005)
• The world of hedge funds: characteristics and analysis   (2005)
• Trading risk: enhanced profitability through risk control   (2004)
• Alternative investments and the mismanagement of risk   (2004)

A subject search for Hedge Funds produced over forty records in the UW Libraries, with sixteen records in the Foster Business Library.

Foster Business Library Articles:

The Foster Business Library periodicals collection includes:

• Futures, v.12, no. 9- (Sept, 1983-)
• The Institutional investor , v.6- (1972-)   Incomplete

The Foster Business Library electronic journals collection includes:

• Hedge Funds, Volume 1, Issue 2, in Foundations and Trends in Finance.

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

• ProQuest Databases:

  This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.

  Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

  This database includes full text for a number of journals with hedge fund content, including Alternative Investment News, Futures, Institutional Investor, Institutional Investor (International Edition), and The Journal of Alternative Investments.

  A search in this database for the phrase Hedge Fund Industry produced just six articles. A subject search for SUB(Hedge Funds) produced over 7,000 articles, including over 360 articles in scholarly journals, over 600 magazine articles, over 4,000 articles in trade and industry periodicals, and over 2,200 newspaper articles.

  This search can be narrowed by combining it with other subjects and words, such as:

  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Investment Advisors)   (over 800 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Investment Policy)   (over 700 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and CO(Long Term Capital Management)   (over 370 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and CO(Securities & Exchange Commission)   (over 350 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Mutual Funds)   (over 300 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Portfolio Management)   (over 290 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Private Banking)   (over 270 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Rates Of Return)   (over 250 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Investment Companies)   (over 220 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(SEC Regulations)   (over 200 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Securities Markets)   (over 180 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Bailouts)   (over 170 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Securities Regulations)   (over 170 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Trends)   (over 160 articles)
  • SUB(Hedge Funds) and SUB(Startups)   (over 90 articles)

  A search for Hedge Funds, in Washington State Newsstand, for coverage of this topic in this state's newspapers, produced over two hundred articles.

  Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

  • "Papers Study August Crisis, From First Wave to Last Ripple"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Sep 28, 2007.  pg. C.6)
  • "A Career in Hedge Funds and the Price of Overcrowding"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jul 5, 2007.  pg. C.3)
  • "Hedge clipping"   (The New Yorker. New York: Jul 2, 2007. Vol. 83, Iss. 18;  pg. 28)
  • "Worth a Lot, But Are They Worth It?"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: May 23, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "Like Them or Loathe Them, Hedge Funds Aren't Going Away"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jan 12, 2007.  pg. C.5)
  • "New Index Trackers Use Hedge Funds As Investing Guide"   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Dec 27, 2006.  pg. D.2)
  • "A $700 Million Hedge Fund, Down From $3 Billion, Says It Will Close"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Oct 31, 2006.  pg. C.3)
  • "S.E.C. Is Reported to Be Examining a Big Hedge Fund"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jun 23, 2006.  pg. A.1)
  • "Are These Hedge Fund Results Real?"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Apr 21, 2006.  pg. C.1)
  • "'Funds of hedge funds' prosper in region"   (Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: Feb 10, 2006.  pg. E.1)
  • "Hedge Funds: The Pool Is Shrinking"   (Business Week. New York: Jan 30, 2006. , Iss. 3969;  pg. 32)
  • "Multistrategy managers gaining favor"   (Pensions & Investments. Chicago: Jan 9, 2006. Vol. 34, Iss. 1;  pg. 1, 3 pgs)
  • "How to Build Your Own Hedge Fund"   (Business Week. New York: Dec 26, 2005. , Iss. 3965;  pg. 98)
  • "Lessons Of A So-So Year"   (Barron's. New York, N.Y.: Nov 28, 2005. Vol. 85, Iss. 48;  pg. 47, 4 pgs)
  • "Refco: The Reckoning"   (Business Week. New York: Nov 7, 2005. , Iss. 3958;  pg. 114)
  • "New barbarians at the gates"   (European Venture Capital & Private Equity Journal. London: Oct 1, 2005.  pg. 1)
  • "Hedge Funds to the Rescue: The Growing Influence of Hedge Funds on Wall Street"   (Traders Magazine. New York: Oct 1, 2005.  pg. 1)
  • "Current Trends in Hedge Funds"   (The CPA Journal. New York: Mar 2005. Vol. 75, Iss. 3;  pg. 16, 2 pgs)

• LexisNexis Academic:

  This database provides accounting, business, legal, medical, news, and reference information as well as full text articles from over 18,000 sources, including 6,000 news sources (mostly newspapers, both U.S. and international), as well as transcripts and polling information.

  This database includes full text articles from the hedge fund periodicals Hedge, from 1999 to present, HedgeWorld Daily, 1999 to present, and MAR/Hedge, 1999 to present. To search in these titles, go to Source in the upper right menu in LexisNexis Academic.

• EBSCO Business Source Premier:

  On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases. Full text of over 8,800 magazines, newspapers and journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals. Also includes some market research reports, SWOT analyses, and country reports.

  This database includes full text articles from the hedge fund periodicals Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation, from 2001 to present, with a four-month delay; the Journal of Futures Markets, 1981 to present; and Mortgage Servicing News, 2000 to present.

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Finance.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Course/Program Index
• Team Consultation Industry Index
• Team Consultation Quarter Index
• Team Consultation Title Index
• Team Consultation and Research Guide Index
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