Alternative Investments: Instruments, Performance, Benchmarks, and Strategies (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments ix

PART I Introduction 1

1 Alternative Investments: An Overview 3
H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck

2 The Role of Alternative Investments in Strategic Asset Allocation 19
Douglas Cumming, Lars Helge Haß, and Denis Schweizer

3 Trends in Alternative Investments 37
Erik Benrud

4 Alternative Investments and Due Diligence 53
Gökhan Afyonoğlu

PART II Real Estate 77

5 REITs and the Private Real Estate Market 79
Shaun A. Bond and Qingqing Chang

6 Commercial Real Estate 99
Peter Chinloy

7 Real Estate Investment Trusts 119
Brad Case

8 Mortgaged-Backed Securities 143
Eric J. Higgins

9 Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity in Real Estate 163
Andrew R. Berman

10 Real Estate Appraisal and Valuation 185
Jeffrey D. Fisher and Demetrios Louziotis, Jr.

11 Performance of Real Estate Portfolios 213
David Geltner

PART III Private Equity 239

12 Venture Capital 241
Tom Vanacker and Sophie Manigart

13 Mezzanine Capital 263
Sameer Jain and Phillip Myburgh

14 Buyout Funds 281
Christian Rauch and Mark Wahrenburg

15 Distressed Debt Investing 303
Michelle M. Harner, Paul E. Harner, Catherine M. Martin, and Aaron M. Singer

16 Performance of Private Equity 323
Christoph Kaserer and Rüdiger Stucke

17 Private Equity: Risk and Return Profile 345
Axel Buchner, Arif Khurshed, and Abdulkadir Mohamed

PART IV Commodities and Managed Futures 363

18 Investing in Commodities 365
Claudio Boido

19 Performance of Commodities 381
Andrew Clark

20 Commodity Futures and Strategic Asset Allocation 399
Yongyang Su, Marco C. K. Lau, and Frankie Chau

21 Managed Futures:Markets, Investment Characteristics, and Role in a Portfolio 419
Davide Accomazzo

22 An Overview of Managed Futures’ Performance: 1983 to Post-2008 Credit Crisis 437
Kai-Hong Tee

PART V Hedge Funds 453

23 Investing in Hedge Funds 455
Hunter M. Holzhauer

24 Performance of Hedge Funds 475
Dianna Preece

25 Hedge Funds and Risk Management 495
Theodore Syriopoulos

26 Hedge Funds and the Financial Crisis 521
Jing-Zhi Huang and Ying Wang

27 Hedge Funds: Replication and Nonlinearities 541
Mikhail Tupitsyn and Paul Lajbcygier

28 Fund-of-Funds: A Tale of Two Fees 567
Kartik Patel

Answers to Discussion Questions 587

Index 619