Visual Guide to Hedge Funds

by Wilson, Richard C.

• ISBN13: 9781118278376
• ISBN10: 1118278372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press

Summary

The Bloomberg Visual Guide to Hedge Funds will provide an overview of how hedge funds operate on a high level, how the industry operates, what types of investors hedge funds work with, including a high level overview of each of the most popular types of hedge fund investment strategies. By speaking and interviewing experts in this field, Richard Wilson will outline the strategies of long and short hedge funds alongside global macro strategies.

Author Biography

Richard C. Wilson is founder of the Hedge Fund Group, the #1 largest hedge fund association with over 115,000 global members. With a background in capital raising he has built a following through his advisory work, equity partnerships, Wilson Holding Company operating businesses, and by providing consultative quality thought leadership, articles, videos, and over 100 speeches in 15+ countries around the world. Through Richard's 5,000 professionals-deep client base, and global capital raising workshops and family office conferences, he has met face-to-face with well over 2,500 fund managers, and at least as many hedge fund investors over the past 10 years. His team offers the #1 self-directed training and certification program on hedge funds which over 1,400 professionals have joined to date and it is called the Certified Hedge Fund Professional certificate program. He is the author of The Hedge Fund Book: A Training Manual for Professionals and Capital Raising Executives, The Family Office Book: Investing Capital for the Ultra-Affluent, and The Single Family Office: Creating, Operating, and Managing the Investments of a Single Family Office.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book

Introduction

Chapter 1: Hedge Fund Daily Operations

Chapter 2: The Hedge Fund Life Cycle: from Startup to Titan

Chapter 3: Hedge Fund Investors

Chapter 4: Hedge Fund Capital Raising

Chapter 5: Long/Short Equity Strategy

Chapter 6:  Global Macro Strategy

Chapter 7:  on Event-Driven Strategy

Chapter 8:  Fixed Income Strategy

Chapter 9:  Convertible Arbitrage Strategy

Chapter 10: Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading Strategies

Chapter 11:  Managed Futures

Chapter 12: Credit and Asset Based Lending

Chapter 13: Multi-strategy Hedge Funds

Chapter 14: Fund of Hedge Funds

Appendix A: Bloomberg Functionality Cheat Sheet

Appendix B: Answers to Test Yourself Quizzes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index