What hedge funds really do : an introduction to portfolio management /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Romero, Philip J., (Author), Balch, Tucker., (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:2014 digital library.
Economics collection.
Subjects:
ETF
HFT
MPT
Online Access:Click to View
Table of Contents:
  • 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.