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Commentary: My Favorite Hedge Fund

By Janet Tavakoli May 26, 2005

I run a hedge fund. Given the low barriers to entry in the hedge fund world, that's a fairly easy thing to declare. As for my strategy, it's a proprietary secret. Domicile? My fund is chiefly located onshore in the U.S. At the moment it is unleveraged, but, sorry, you are not entitled to even that much information. There is no waiting period for withdrawing an investment from the fund. My returns after all expenses and taxes are enviable by any hedge fund standard, and I don't disclose them.

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting and expert-witness services. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, and she has recently authored a pair of books on the credit markets: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition, 2001) and Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (John Wiley & Sons, 2003

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