Hedge Funds Overview
Hedge Funds Overview.

Objective:
To provide a good overview of Hedge Funds assuming no prior knowledge.

Delegates:
- Fund Managers
- Fund Administration Staff
- Marketing and Sales Managers and IFAs
- Private Bankers
- Custodians and Depositaries
- Prime Brokers
- Lawyers and Accountants (CPD credit)
- Compliance Officers

Content:
Introduction
- How large is the overall Hedge Fund Universe? The numbers in context
- Where are they? Domicile, Onshore vs Offshore
- Why have they been so successful? Comparisons with the 'long-only' world
- Asset Class performance or Manager value-added? The search for Alpha

Hedge Fund Tactics, Counter-Parties & Competition
- How do Hedge Funds differ? A very different Risk-return profile
- Tactics-Leverage and Short Selling explained
- Where is the competition? The reaction from the traditional Fund Managers
- Prime Brokerage – The Investment Banks’ saviour?

Issues for Hedge Fund Investors
- Rationale for Hedge Funds in an Investors’ Portfolio
- The non-correlated Asset Class, Survivorship Bias, Drawdown
- Leverage, Risk and Transparency
- Risk-adjusted performance measurement
- Institutionalisation of Hedge Funds, Index Providers – Benchmark Risk

Risk Management for Hedge Funds & The Regulators' View
- Market, leverage and Credit risk
- Systems, processing and legal risk
- Gap and liquidity risk, Mark-to-market risk, Style Drift risk
- Why do Hedge Funds fail? Do not forget Operational risk
- Tools for the Analysis of Financial Risk- from VaR to Stress Testing
- The Regulator's Standpoint



 
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