Explore the World of Hedge Funds With Bloomberg TV This Week

Explore the World of Hedge Funds With Bloomberg TV This Week

NEW YORK, Oct 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Hedge fund managers oversee $1.8 trillion and their impact on the financial world has deepened .... yet the workings of their profitable circle remain a mystery to those outside of it. A three-part BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) series, that starts tomorrow, will explore this tumultuous industry.

The series, "Hedge Hunters," will take BLOOMBERG TELEVISION viewers inside the rarefied world of hedge funds and their managers. Hosts Ellen Braitman and Brian Sullivan will interview some of the most accomplished fund managers about what makes them successful, the biggest challenges they face and what personal and business qualities are needed to survive and thrive in the hedge fund industry.

The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION series will feature interviews with James Chanos, President, Kynikos Associates Ltd; Boone Pickens, Chairman and CEO, BP Capital LLC; Michael Steinhardt, Managing Member, Steinhardt Management LLC, Chairman, WisdomTree Investments and Chairman, Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life.

The series is based on the book HEDGE HUNTERS: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk and the Reckoning, by Bloomberg's Katherine Burton.

"Hedge Hunters" will air Wednesday, October 31st through Friday November 2nd at 12:00PM ET and will repeat at 6:00PM ET.

This exclusive news and follow up reports are available to the public on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION and BLOOMBERG RADIO(R) services worldwide, as well as to users of the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. Clips from the interviews will be archived and available via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service.

About Bloomberg Television

The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) network is the only worldwide 24-hour business and financial network. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION service is produced and distributed on 11 separate channels in seven languages. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION programming is created and supported by the global BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service with more than 2,300 professionals in over 130 bureaus.

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg is the global provider of data, news and analytics to the financial markets. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world. Bloomberg's media services include the global BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service with more than 2,300 professionals in over 130 bureaus worldwide; the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) 24-hour business and financial network produced and distributed worldwide on eleven separate channels in seven languages; and BLOOMBERG RADIO(R) services which provide up-to-the- minute news on XM, Sirius and WorldSpace satellite radio around the world and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. In addition, Bloomberg publishes BLOOMBERG MARKETS(R) magazine and BLOOMBERG PRESS(R) books for investment professionals. For more information please visit http://www.bloomberg.com/.

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CONTACT: Heidi Tan of Bloomberg LP, +1-212-617-5375,
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Web site: http://www.bloomberg.com/

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