Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds - Hardcover

by Dominique Mielle (Author)

The hedge fund industry is a boys' club, with hardly any female success stories to turn to. Damsel in Distressed is one of those rare, humorous, and inspiring stories.

In 1998, Dominique Mielle joined Canyon Partners--a small, little-known hedge fund. The job was trading distressed securities and high yield bonds, known back then, respectively, as vulture investing and junk bonds.

Over the span of two decades, she rose to the top of the firm as the only female partner and senior portfolio manager--in what became one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. Damsel in Distressed explores the innerworkings of hedge funds while exposing what it takes to succeed as a woman investor.

"Damsel in Distressed is an often-hilarious romp through the jungles of high finance...I suspect it will become a classic of the genre." --Wall Street Journal

Author Biography

One of the only senior women in the hedge fund business, Dominique Mielle was a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a $25 billion fund, where she worked for twenty years. Ms. Mielle was named one of the "50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds" by The Hedge Fund Journal in association with EY in 2017, and she currently serves on five public and private corporate boards. She is a contributor to Forbes.