Contents:PrefaceIntroductionPART I: FOUNDATIONS1. Hedge Funds - An IntroductionLudwig Chincarini2. Europe's Hedge Fund Industry - An OverviewAndrea Hankova and François-Serge Lhabitant3. Sovereign-wealth Funds - A Paradigm Shift in Capital Flows in the Global EconomyDilip K. Das 4. Private Equity Funds' Performance, Risk and SelectionLudovic Phalippou PART II: REGULATORY ISSUES5. Alternative Investments and Retail Investors - A Bold but Risky ExperimentHarry McVea 6. Hedge Fund ReportingFelix Goltz and David Schröder7.

Hedge Fund ActivismAlon Brav, Wei Jiang and Hyunseob Kim 8. Hedge Funds and the Detection of Managerial FraudVeronika Krepely Pool9. Self-regulation - What Future in the Context of Hedge Funds?Marco Lamandini10. Hedge Fund Regulation through Competition Law Principles - Some ReflectionsDavid Harrison PART III: ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT FUNDS - FAILURES AND FINANCIAL CRISES11. Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management and Amaranth AdvisorsMark Jickling 12. Hedge Funds and their Impact on Systemic StabilityMaria Strömqvist13. Sovereign Default Risks in the Economic and Monetary Union and the Role of Vulture FundsPeter Yeoh PART IV: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS14. US Regulation of Investment Advisers and Private Investment Funds - A Concise OverviewNathan Greene and John Adams15.

German Alternative Investment Fund Regulation - Wrong Answers to the Wrong Questions?Norbert Lang 16. Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Alternative Investment in AustraliaAlex Erskine 17. The EU's AIFM Directive and its Impact - An OverviewPhoebus Athanassiou and Thomas Bullman 18. The Domestic Rooting of Financial Regulation in an Era of Global Capital MarketsThomas Oatley and W. Kindred WinecoffIndex.