TY - BOOK AU - Chambers,Donald R. AU - Anson,Mark J.P AU - Black,Keith H. AU - Kazemi,Hossein B. ED - CAIA Association. TI - Alternative investments: CAIA level I T2 - Wiley finance series SN - 9781119604143 U1 - 332.63 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Hoboken, Nueva Jersey : PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc., KW - Análisis de inversiones KW - Estrategia y técnica KW - Administración del portafolio KW - Finanzas KW - Fundamentos KW - Mercado de capitales KW - Rentabilidad KW - Gestión del riesgo N1 - Contiene información biográfica de los autores; Incluye índice (857-885); Chapter 1. What is an alternative investment? ; Chapter 2. The environment of alternative investments ; Chapter 3. Quantitative foundations ; Chapter 4. Statistical foundations ; Chapter 5. Foundations of financial economics ; Chapter 6. Derivatives and risk-neutral valuation ; Chapter 7. Measures of risk and performance ; Chapter 8. Alpha, beta and hypothesis testing ; Chapter 9. Natural resourses and land ; Chapter 10. Commodities ; Chapter 11. Other real assets ; Chapter 12. Real estate assets and debt ; Chapter 13. Real estate equity ;Chapter 14. Structure of the hedge fund industry ; Chapter 15. Macro and managed futures funds ; Chapter 16. Event-driven hedge funds ; Chapter 17. Relative value hedge funds ; Chapter 18. Equity hedge funds ; Chapter 19. Funds of hedge funds ; Chapter 20. Private equity assets ; Chapter 21. Private equity funds ; Chapter 22. Private credit and distressed debt ; Chapter 23. Introduction to structuring ; Chapter 24. Credit risk and credit derivatives ; Chapter 25. CDO structuring of credit risk ; Chapter 26. Equity-linked structured products N2 - Alternative Investments is designed as the primary reading resource for the Level I exam of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association's Charter program, as well as a textbook for university courses and a resource for alterna tive investment professionals. This book began three editions ago as a revision of Mark Anson's Handbook of Alternative Assets and represents another milestone in our efforts to continuously improve and update the CAIA curriculum. This edition includes material from a variety of contributors to the third edition of the CAIA Level II textbook. To ensure that the material best reflects up-to-date practices in the area of alternative investments, the CAIA Association invited a group of leading industry professionals to review the series, covering core areas of alternative invest ments: real assets, hedge funds, private equity/credit, and structured products ER -