GUY FRASER-SAMPSON is one of the very few people in theworld to have expertise right across the whole range of so-called"alternative" assets, including in particular issues of analysis,access and implementation. He has twenty-five years' practicalexperience of different aspects of the subject, including fundstructuring, investment management and returns analysis. He is alsounusual in that to his many years of practical experience have beenadded the last few years in an academic setting, enabling him togain a whole new dimension on investment matters generally, notjust through teaching and lecturing but also by supervising variousresearch projects. Guy's work experience has included a period as InvestmentController with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and setting upand running for several years the non-US activities of a leadingfund of funds manager. In addition to his work with funds, he hasalso conducted direct, secondary and mezzanine transactions aroundthe world. He is currently at the forefront of work on identifyingsources of beta return across different asset types, and discussingmethods of accessing these. Guy teaches post-graduate modules on private equity andinvestment strategy at Cass Business School in the City of London,and is also recogniZed as an authority on all types of alternativeassets. He performs consultancy and high level executive trainingassignments for clients around the world, and is also in demand asa provider of keynote addresses at investment conferences. Inaddition to various professional qualifications, he holds an LLBwith honours from King's College London, and an MBA majoring infinance from Warwick Business School. Guy writes for a number of finance and investment publications,including his influential monthly column in Real Deals. Heis the author of Multi-Asset Class Investment Strategy, alsopublished as part of the Wiley Finance series, which questionsaccepted views of risk and return, and sets out ways in whichinvestors could and should incorporate a wide range of so-calledalternative assets into their planned portfolios. He conductsregular investor workshops around the world based upon hisbooks. He has won praise for his no-nonsense writing style, which aimsto de-mystify finance and make it accessible to the general readerby means of explaining the concepts which lie behind it, and theuse of practical everyday examples.