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Hedge Fund Styles and Strategies

Hedge Fund Styles and Strategies

Banking and Financial Markets, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Fund Management, Trading and Technical Analysis

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Hedge funds, investment,, trading strategies, long/short equity, directional, distressed debt, global macro

Schedule

Session 1:

The most popular strategy - Long-Short Equity

Mechanics of Short Selling
Stock Lending
Risk Management
Variation on a theme - 130/30 Strategies
Derivative trading alternatives

Session 2:

Hedge Fund Investment Styles - Directional

Overview of Style variations – From Low to High Market Exposure
Distressed Debt
Global Macro
Managed Futures – Technical Analysis at work

Session 3:

Hedge Fund Investment Styles – Non-Directional

Market Neutral and Relative Value Arbitrage – Equity and Fixed Income
Event-driven and Risk Arbitrage
Convertible Arbitrage
Hedge Fund Style Index Performance and Volatility data
Lesson from 2008: Which Strategies worked, which didn’t & why
Looking at 2009, which Strategies should perform better than others & why

Session 4:

Funds of Hedge Funds

Rationale for the Fund of Funds route – Diversification and Risk Management
Strategy and Manager orientation - The Due Diligence process
Risk Management and the monitoring process
Fund of Funds in practice

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