........................................................... 9 3.2. Greedy or stupid investors ......................................................................................................... 9 3.2.1. Third Parties and Fund of Funds ...................................................................................... 10 3.2.2. List of the casualties ......................................................................................................... 11 3.3
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Overview Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a hedge fund founded by John Meriwether in 19941. Meriwether was the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at investment bank Salomon Brothers. Meriwether put together a high profile team of traders and academics in an attempt to create a fund that would profit from the combination of the academics’ quantitative models and the traders’ market judgment. Some of the high profile employees brought on were Nobel-prize winning economists Myron
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Advanced Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (EF4320) Spring 2014‚ by Dr. Dayong Huang Office: AC2 5110; Tel: 34429230; email: dayhuang@um.cityu.edu.hk; Email is preferred. Office hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30 or Wednesday 10:00-11:30 or by appointment Teaching Assistant: Fred Chan‚ Yiufchan7@cityu.edu.hk‚ P7706 AC1. Please email Fred for general inquiries and hand in group homework assignments and trading records to Fred by due date. Aims and Objectives: This course is aimed to provide
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Executive Summary In 2008‚ the largest “short squeeze” in the history‚ done by Porsche’s CFO to acquire control over Volkswagen through option contracts‚ had caused a huge loss for multiple hedge funds and investment banks in Germany. And meanwhile in 2007‚ until the beginning of 2008‚ TCI and 3G‚ 2 UK-based hedge funds‚ violated SEC disclosure requirements‚ hiding their objective to takeover CSX Corporation by entering into equity total return swaps with numerous investment banks. CSX was a one of the
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Pair Trading Educational Course – Part 1 Contrary to popular belief the market has logic to it. The market is efficient most of the time‚ which is stocks are priced accurately according to all the known and forecast information. The truest logic running through markets is that of relative value‚ all assets are worth something in relation to something else. Take gold for example; when you buy gold you are going short the dollar too. Stocks‚ when you buy stocks you are going short cash. Stocks‚ bonds
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MFS manages their employees very fair and its compensation system also reflects this characteristic. For sustaining this team –based culture of MFS‚ which don’t prefer star(anti star culture)‚ MFS assesses their employees to the ways that not only fund-performance(performance factor) but also contribution to the investment‚ and contribution to MFS overall(community factor). The portion of performance factor is 60% but community factors are 40%. It is not easy to ignore such a huge portion. In this
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International Financial Management‚ 2e (Bekaert / Hodrick) Chapter 1 Globalization and the Multinational Corporation 1.1 Multiple Choice Easy 1) Which of the following was created in an effort to promote free trade? A) World Trade Organization B) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act C) multilateral development banks D) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Answer: A 2) Which one of the following is an investment from which the payoff over time is derived from the performance
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Financial intermediation consists of transforming funds between surplus and deficit units. This can take place indirectly through depositories or directly through investment banks‚ per say. In the article Dell Deal Done Differently‚ “stapling financing” was the controversial practice taken place. Stapling financing as depicted in the article is an act investment banks premeditate when offering a finance packaging to bidders during acquisition. This is a part of financial intermediation because it
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BERGSTRESSER LAUREN COHEN RANDOLPH COHEN CHRISTOPHER MALLOY AQR’s Momentum Funds (A) In early 2009‚ after significant research and reflection‚ Cliff Asness‚ founder and principal at AQR‚ was considering the launch of three new retail mutual funds that would offer investors exposure to ‘Momentum‚’ a new investment style. While momentum strategies were commonplace among hedge funds‚ the new AQR funds would become the first retail funds to focus on this strategy. The Momentum Strategy AQR defined stock momentum
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Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) may characterize their labor market for portfolio managers as a “star system”‚ their labor market certainly does not have a star mentality. Rather than recruit stars‚ they mentor portfolio mangers into becoming stars. MFS promotes a culture of teamwork and collaboration in which talent grows from within. MFS often recruits employees right out of business school as analysts. Analysts are then brought up through the MFS system and trained to become great portfolio
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