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Hedge Funds from First Principles:
A Comprehensive Workshop
This workshop is for financial professionals who would like to achieve a fundamental, first principles understanding of hedge funds, their strategies, and their risks. The course gives participants a complete and thorough understanding of current issues and trends in the industry by building from a solid theoretical base.
The workshop is for professionals who have been working in the hedge fund industry or investing in hedge funds but want to sharpen their skills with a firm base built on first principle understanding of the industry.
Participants will gain:
A deep understanding of hedge fund strategy and risks including coverage of:
- The canonical hedge fund strategies explained thoroughly.
- The true nature of risks associated with various strategies.
- Contemporary issues such as:
- Survivorship and Backfill bias
- Arbitrage
- Risk and Risk Management
- Market efficiency and hedge funds.
- Quantitative measures explained via simple mathematics
- Sharpe, Sortino, correlation, VAR
- Introduction to quantitative tools for the non-quant
- A fundamental understanding of alpha and beta including:
- The ability to recognize both in a hedge fund.
- The challenges facing hedge funds as they pursue alpha.
- Portfolio design
- How to build a high quality hedge fund portfolio
- Correlation and diversification
- Hedge funds versus traditional portfolios
- Fund of funds, investible indices
Who should attend:
Financial professionals who:
- may be knowledgeable about some aspects of the space, but want to round out their knowledge with fundamental understanding of other areas.
- want a have a deep, fundamental understanding of hedge funds from theoretical basics.
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