| Pine Street Capital | | | FINA5290 Derivatives Analysiss Individual Assignment 1. What is a hedge fund? How do hedge funds differ from mutual funds? Hedge funds are investment vehicles that explicitly pursue absolute returns on their underlying investments. Hedge Fund incorporate to any absolute return fund investing within the financial markets (stocks‚ bonds‚ commodities‚ currencies‚ derivatives‚ etc) and/or applying non-traditional portfolio management techniques including‚ but
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Established in January 1999‚ Pine Street Capital (PSC) was a market-neutral hedge fund that specialized in the technology field‚ facing market risk and trying to decide whether and which way to use in order to hedge equity market risk. They choose technology sector because the partners of PSC felt that they have enough ability to evaluate this sector and specially be good at picking out-performing stock. Short-selling of NASDAQ and options hedging strategy are the two major hedging choices for PSC
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Pine Street Capital Discussion and Analysis 1 PINE STREET CAPITAL – WHAT RISK TO HEDGE & WHAT TO BEAR? Hedge: market related risks 1. Currently managing a market neutral fund ($32 AUM) In the past the market risk was hedged by shorting or short-selling representative shares of the market index In the past the market riskunder was The alternative hedged by shorting hedging the consideration was or shortselling representativehelp of put market risk with the shares of the market the market
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Background Pine Street Capital is a market-neutral hedge fund in the technology field and is facing market risk and has to decide which way to use in order to hedge the risk. It can either use short selling of NASDAQ or options hedging strategy. Each strategy has its own advantage in different economic conditions. As the fund has just gone through a volatile period in NASDAQ’s history‚ PSC has to choose between two choices. Choice 1: Continuing to hedge market risk by short selling Choice 2:
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Madison Street Capital’s co-founder and Chief Operating Officer‚ Anthony Marsala is the recipient of National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts‚ “40 Under Forty” recognition program for 2015. The recognition program acknowledges individuals who’ve made their mark in business valuation‚ financial analysis‚ litigation‚ witness testimony as well as mergers and acquisitions. The 40 recognized individuals were selected by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts Executive
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Pines are trees in the genus Pinus (pron.: /ˈpaɪnəs/)‚[1] in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115species of pine‚ although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species. Contents [hide] * 1 Etymology * 2 Taxonomy‚ nomenclature and codification * 3 Distribution * 4 Morphology * 4.1 Foliage * 4.2 Cones * 5 Ecology * 6 Uses * 6.1 Food uses * 7 See also * 8 Notes * 9 References * 10 Bibliography *
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1.What is a hedge fund? How do hedge funds differ from mutual funds? According to our case‚ Hedge funds are private group investments that offer equity pooling advantages. Hedge funds have limited partnership which are restricted by law to no more than 1000 investors per fund‚ so hedge funds set extremely high minimum investment amounts‚ ranging anywhere from $250‚000 to over $1 million. Hedge funds not only require investors pay a management fee‚ but also collect a percentage of the profits
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the European Union‚ investment firms are struggling to stay afloat in a volatile world economy. This is what makes Madison Street Capital’s accomplishments impressive. Recently the M&A Advisor group announced that Madison Street Capital is a finalist for multiple awards at the November 9th Gala in New York City. The nominations serve as recognition for all of Madison Street Capital’s success this year. Over the past 18 years‚ Merger and Acquisitions Advisor‚ or M&A for short‚ has developed a reputation
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Case 2-3 Lone Pine Cafe (A)* Karamoy‚ Claudya Loria‚ Karla Uy‚ Casandra Alexis Allan Quijano ENT603M 1. Prepare a balance sheet for the Lone Pine Cafe as of November 2‚ 2001. LONE PINE CAFE BALANCE SHEET AS OF NOVEMBER 2‚ 2001 Assets Current Assets Cash……………………………………………………………$10‚ 172 Inventory………………………………………………………. 2‚ 800 Prepaid Expense……………………………………………… 1‚ 428 Total current assets……………………………………….
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town of Hammond‚ Connecticut declared towering pines a wilderness preserve in 1968. At one time‚ towering pines was a beautiful two hundred acre wilderness preserve. It was home too many 250 year old White Pine trees‚ dating back too the 18th century. The trees stood up too 150 ft. tall with walking trails laid out for tourists and residential people. The trees also stood as a scientist resource for Botanists and science students. When Towering Pines Charter was written in 1968‚ it stated: WHEREAS
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