Hedge Fund Styles and Strategies - Inhouse

Hedge Fund Styles and Strategies Training Course

Content

The most popular strategy - Long-Short Equity

• Mechanics of Short Selling.
• Stock Lending considerations.
• Risk Management - postion limits, Stop losses
• Variation on a theme - 130/30 Strategies.
• Derivative trading alternatives - Contracts for Difference, Equity Index Swaps
  

Hedge Fund Investment Styles - Directional

• Overview of Style variations-from Low to High Market Exposure.
• Distressed Debt.
• Global Macro - trading Interest Rates, FX & Commodities
• Managed Futures-Technical Analysis at work
  

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 2009: Which Strategies worked, which didn't & why.

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.

If you have several people to train then an in-house course may be more cost effective, eliminating travel and accommodation expenses. Plus the content of the course can be tailored to meet your organisation's needs.