Alternative Investments on Contemporary Financial Market -- Hedge Funds -- Investment Strategies of Hedge Funds -- Funds of Funds -- Managed Futures Investments -- Structured Products -- Private Equity/Venture Capital Investments -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

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Terms, definitions and short essays -- Deposit insurance schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium -- Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds -- Intertemporal risk and currency risk -- Credit derivatives -- international parity conditions...