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Hedge Fund Strategies 3 Overview Hedge funds offer investors a breadth of investment options. No two hedge funds are identical, but funds can be categorized broadly by the type of strategies they employ. While the individual investment decisions made by each fund vary, many hedge fund strategies share several of the same fundamental goals.
A hedge fund is an investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction and risk management techniques to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage and derivatives. Because of its use of complex techniques, financial regulators typically do not allow hedge funds to be marketed or made available to.
The objective of submissions to the Southeastern Hedge Fund Competition is to propose an investment strategy that is attractive to a hedge fund. The types of investment strategies that are of interest to hedge funds are extremely wide-ranging, covering all asset classes and markets.
An Introduction to Hedge Funds Introductory Guide Gregory Connor and Mason Woo. Table of Contents 1 What is a Hedge Fund? 5 1.1 Standard Definitions of a Hedge Fund 5 1.2 The Legal Structures of Hedge Funds 8 1.3 Legal Structures for Non-US Hedge Funds 10 2 The History of Hedge Funds 12.
The objective of this dissertation is to develop and test an investment process for hedge fund of funds (HFoFs) in South Africa. The dissertation proposes a three tiered process, adapted from the.
Hedge funds are investment funds that pose restriction on the number of investors and undertake a huge range of trading and investment activities like leverage, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets that pay a performance fee to the related investment manager with the objective of generating huge returns.
THREE ESSAYS ON HEDGE FUND FEE STRUCTURE, RETURN SMOOTHING AND GROSS PERFORMANCE A Dissertation Presented by SHUANG FENG Approved as to style and content by: Mila Getmansky Sherman, Chair Nikunj Kapadia, Member Bing Liang, Member Anna Liu, Member D. Anthony Butter eld, Program Director Isenberg School of Management.