A Look Inside the Secretive World of Hedge Funds

November 12, 2007
Hosted by Jordan Goodman

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Episode Description

Hedge funds now manage over $1.7 trillion and are a major influence on the trading of stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities. Yet they operate in a secretive, mysterious world that the average investor knows little about. Katherine Burton, who covers the hedge fund industry for Bloomberg News, takes you inside the secret world of hedge funds in her new book and in this interview. She discusses the strategies used by the top hedge fund managers and profiles 10 of the best and also talks about some of the up-and-comers in the hedge fund world.

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Jordan Goodman

Jordan Goodman has a mission: to help everyone do better with money. Since graduating the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977, he has spent the past 32 years combing the country to find the very best ways to help consumers make and save money and then sharing these gems with the public. As a staff writer/reporter at MONEY Magazine for 18 years, a weekly commentator on NBC News at Sunrise and Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report, and through his 12, soon to be 13 highly respected books, and his website www.moneyanswers.com, he has provided useful, common-sense information to the public. Some of his better-known books include Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone’s Money Book, the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Master Your Money Type. Jordan is a rare combination: someone who possesses not only encyclopedic knowledge about every area of personal finance but also a passion for helping his listeners not only to get educated but to take action to help their dreams become realities.

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