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NY Institute of Finance – Midtown
1330 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Fl
New York City, NY 10019, USA
Hedge funds are one of the fastest growing, but probably least understood, sectors of the asset management industry. This course presents a detailed and comprehensive picture of the hedge fund industry.
Who should attend: Employees of funds, family offices, private providers of financial services clients, individual investors and others involved directly or indirectly in the development, provision of marketing and invest in hedge funds.
Instructor: Lance Eckel
The course will allow students to:
* Describe the main characteristics of hedge funds
* Distinguish between different types and styles of hedge funds
* Explain that invests in hedge funds and why
* Identify the problems and risks faced by hedge fund managers and investors in hedge funds
Course Contents
Introduction
* Traditional and Alternative Investment Asset
* Justification of hedge funds portfolio of an investor
* Define a Hedge Fund and the concept of risk coverage
* Common features Hedge Fund
* History of the Hedge Fund Industry
* Size and Growth of the Industry
* Why so successful? Comparisons with the “long-only world”

How Does a Hedge Fund
* Management Regulation
* Legal Structures
* Documentation
Hedge fund providers and Counter-Parties
* Outside Service Providers
* Prime Brokerage

Fund’s hedging strategies
* Market leadership
* Corporate Restructuring
* Trade Convergence
* Opportunistic
Issues for hedge fund investors
* Who can invest in hedge funds
* Due Diligence
* Rates
* Monitoring of the portfolio
* Benchmarks and biases
* Leverage
* The only risks for hedge funds
* Fund of Funds
* Construction of the portfolio
Risk Management for Hedge Funds
* Performance Measures
* Risk Measures
* The lack of correlation of asset class
* Tools for the Analysis of Financial Risk – From the VaR to Stress Testing

Course Fee: $1575
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