- Hedge Funds – Provided by whom and where?
- How do hedge funds differ? A very different
risk-return profile
- How many are there? How big are they?
- Where are they? Domicile, onshore vs offshore
- Where is the competition? The fund managers’
- Relationships with investment banks -
prime brokerage
Case Study: How do investors choose their
hedge fund manager?
- Why Hedge Funds?
- Rationale for hedge funds in an investors’
portfolio
- The non-correlated asset class, survivorship
bias, drawdown
- Institutionalisation of hedge funds
- Hedge fund index providers
Case Study: Exclusion criteria in the due
diligence process
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- Hedge Fund Investment Styles – Long and
Short
- Overview of style variations; From low
to high market exposure
- Equity long/short, distressed securities
- Macro, market timing, short selling
- Managed futures ; DVD - Chicago Board
of Trade
- Hedge Fund Investment Styles - Arbitrage
- Market neutral - arbitrage
- Relative value, risk arbitrage, convertible
arbitrage
- Emerging market hedge funds
- Fund of funds; Man Investment Products
- The Glenwood Portfolio
Case Study: Hedge fund style index performance
data
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