Rob Copeland is a banking and finance reporter for The New York Times. He was previously a long-time hedge-fund beat reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has also covered Silicon Valley and the hidden worlds of the wealthy and powerful. His front-page investigations into Bridgewater Associates won a New York Press Club award; he was also awarded an honorable mention twice by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) and was named a News Media Alliance 'Rising Star' (formerly Top 30 Under 30). He has appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America', NPR and other major news networks. The Fund is his first book.
The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read - and the most fun, too -- <b>Bradley Hope</b>, bestselling author of <i>Billion Dollar Whale</i> At last, the era of the billionaire philosopher-king has a defining book. The Fund is a taut, nonfiction thriller -- <b>Bryan Burrough</b>, bestselling author of <i>Barbarians at the Gate</i> A classic American story about the most famous man on Wall Street - or the person he seems to be. The Fund manages to both shock and entertain at the same time -- <b>Philipp Meyer</b>, bestselling author of <i>American Rust </i>and <i>The Son</i> Jaw-dropping . . . well-told, well-structured and exquisitely reported -- <b><i>Financial Times </i></b>book review A terrific dagger of a book, packed with cringey detail, just long enough to efficiently disembowel its subject. For anyone who has had an awful boss, The Fund is the perfect rage-read -- Mark Gimein, reviewing for the <i><b>New York Times</b></i> The best thing I read in 2023 - Robin Wigglesworth, bestselling author of Trillions, writing for the Financial Times' Best of Further Reading list (2023) Eye-opening...[teaches us] to be more sceptical about investment and management gurus - MoneyWeek Book of the Year review (2023) Explosive . . . rivetingly chronicles a traumatic social experiment in which hundreds of America’s sharpest Ivy League finance alums unwittingly became ensnared -- Ben Naparstek, reviewing for<i> <b>The Australian</b></i>