What hedge funds really do : an introduction to portfolio management
pörssinoteeratut rahastot Hedge funds Portfolio management absolute return active investment management arbitrage capital asset pricing model CAPM derivatives exchange traded funds fat tails finance hedging HFT high-frequency trading investing investment management long/short modern portfolio theory MPT optimization portfolio construction portfolio optimization quant quantitative trading strategies trading trading strategies Wall Street
Business Expert Press
2014
First edition.
EISBN 9781631570902
Part I. The basics.
1. Introduction.
2. So you want to be a hedge fund manager.
3. An illustrative hedge fund strategy: arbitrage.
4. Market-making mechanics.
5. Introduction to company valuation.
Part II. Investing fundamentals: CAPM and EMH.
6. How valuation is used by hedge funds.
7. Framework for investing: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
8. The efficient market hypothesis (EMH), its three versions.
9. The fundamental law of active portfolio management.
Part III. Market simulation and portfolio construction.
10. Modern portfolio theory: the efficient frontier and portfolio optimization.
11. Event studies.
12. Overcoming data quirks to design trading strategies.
13. Data sources.
14. Back testing strategies.
Part IV. Case study and issues.
15. Hedge fund case study: long term capital management (LTCM).
16. Opportunities and challenges for hedge funds.
Teaching cases.
Glossary.
Summary.
Index.
What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, which permits hedge fund managers to charge exceptionally high fees. While the details of each fund's approach are carefully guarded trade secrets, this book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies.
1. Introduction.
2. So you want to be a hedge fund manager.
3. An illustrative hedge fund strategy: arbitrage.
4. Market-making mechanics.
5. Introduction to company valuation.
Part II. Investing fundamentals: CAPM and EMH.
6. How valuation is used by hedge funds.
7. Framework for investing: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
8. The efficient market hypothesis (EMH), its three versions.
9. The fundamental law of active portfolio management.
Part III. Market simulation and portfolio construction.
10. Modern portfolio theory: the efficient frontier and portfolio optimization.
11. Event studies.
12. Overcoming data quirks to design trading strategies.
13. Data sources.
14. Back testing strategies.
Part IV. Case study and issues.
15. Hedge fund case study: long term capital management (LTCM).
16. Opportunities and challenges for hedge funds.
Teaching cases.
Glossary.
Summary.
Index.
What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, which permits hedge fund managers to charge exceptionally high fees. While the details of each fund's approach are carefully guarded trade secrets, this book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies.
