The lecture Overview of Hedge Funds by Edu Pristine is from the course Archiv - Risk Management & Investment Management. It contains the following chapters:
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... hedge funds include: No investment restrictions, can take long or short positions. Highly leveraged, take large bets, which magnifies both gains and losses. Unregulated. Illiquid as there are usually lock ...
... Mutual Fund don't use leverage unlike hedge funds. Hedge funds need not register with the SEC, if clients are less than 15 which make it ...
... use following investment strategies to generate returns: Bank borrowing. Repurchase agreements - Also known as repos, in which hedge funds agree to sell a security at ...
... Hedge fund have the ability to execute complex strategies. Slow down in 2008. Due to the slowdown in 2008, there was huge demands for withdrawals. Many hedge funds could not meet this ...
... Hurdle Rates. Hedge funds have two types of fee - management fee and performance fee. Management fee is typically 2 % of the NAV. Performance fee is ...
... returns suffer from two biases: survivorship bias and backfill bias. Survivorship bias - Funds that are liquidated/failed are not available for research or academic ...
... many equity and debt markets. Hedge fund have substantially increased the liquidity in global markets and has produced many new and innovative hedging vehicles designed to lower investment risk. ...
... a result of Lock up period and gate, hedge funds become illiquid investments which can be extremely difficult to value. In case of hard to value, illiquid hedge fund assets, some may be designated as side pocket investments, in which new investors ...
... funds are very lightly regulated. Hedge funds invest in liquid assets whereas private equity invest in less liquid asset. Mutual funds are highly liquid with NAVs priced ...
... identify poor hedge fund managers. Fund of funds managers receive a 1-1.5 % management fee and about 10-20 % in performance fees. Advantages of fund of funds include instant diversification ...