Long-Term Capital Management‚ LP. (A) (HBS Case No. 9-200-007) Long-Term Capital Management‚ LP. (A) Hedge Funds According to the book‚ “Financial Markets and Institutions” by Anthony Saunders‚ hedge funds are financial intermediaries that pool the financial resources of individuals and companies and invest those resources in (diversified portfolios of assets. In other words‚ they are a type of investment pool that solicit funds from (wealthy) individuals and other investors (e.g.‚ commercial
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Workshop 2‚ week 3 Syndicate 1 1. The collapse of Trio Capital demonstrated the way in which hedge funds and funds of hedge funds can be overly complex‚ unclear and lacking in transparency‚ particularly for retail investors. a. Briefly summarise what has happened in the case of Trio Capital last year in 2012 in Australia The collapse of Trio Capital is the biggest superannuation fraud in Australian history. Trio Capital was the trustee of a numbers of super funds governed by the
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Kmart‚ Sears and ESL: How a Hedge Fund Became one of the World’s Largest Retailers 1. Describe recent trends in the hedge fund and private equity industry and the growing overlapbetween the two. A: Hedge funds‚ historically‚ were more interested in the buying and short selling of defaulted ornear-default bonds within a few weeks or months. This strategy was more of a short-term‚ exit-focused strategy. Now‚ however‚ some hedge funds are becoming more interested in therestructuring and long-term
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19843_05_c05_p141-172.qxd 12/7/05 9:43 AM Page 141 C H APTE R 5 FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS A Strong Financial System Is Necessary for a Growing and Prosperous Economy Financial managers and investors don’t operate in a vacuum—they make decisions within a large and complex financial environment. This environment includes financial markets and institutions‚ tax and regulatory policies‚ and the state of the economy. The environment both determines the available financial
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gain leverage and corporate control for activist purposes. In 2008‚ Porsche’s CFO carried out the “short squeeze” to acquire control over Volkswagen through option contracts‚ which lead to huge losses for short-selling hedge funds. And meanwhile in 2007‚ TCI and 3G‚ 2 UK-based hedge funds‚ violated SEC disclosure requirements by hiding their intentions to takeover CSX by entering into equity total return swaps with lots kind of investment banks. CSX was a one of the largest railroad and transport
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Value-oriented Equity Investment Ideas for Sophisticated Investors A Monthly Publication of BeyondProxy LLC Subscribe at manualofideas.com “If our efforts can further the goals of our members by giving them a discernible edge over other market participants‚ we have succeeded.” Investing In The Tradition of Graham‚ Buffett‚ Klarman Year IV‚ Volume V June 1‚ 2011 When asked how he became so successful‚ Buffett answered: “We read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.”
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Abstract Our era aptly has been styled‚ and well may be remembered as‚ the "age of information. "Francis Bacon recognized nearly 400 years ago that "knowledge is power‚" (Nickels &‚McHugh 2011) “Insider trading is an unethical activity in which insiders use private company information to further their own fortunes or those of their families or friends”. Pg.101 Insider trading is a term that includes both legal and illegal conduct. The legal version is when corporate insiders—officers‚ directors
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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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upper edge of this region is the efficient frontier in the absence of a risk-free asset. 2. (Chapter 1‚ Practice Questions 14) The return from the market last year was 10% and the risk-free rate was 5%. A hedge fund manager with a beta of 0.6 has an alpha of 4%. What return did the hedge fund manager earn? Solutions: 3. (Chapter 2‚ Q3) Page 2 of 8 (a). How many banks are there in the United States? (b). What is the size of the assets held by these banks? Solutions: (a)&(b) 4. (Chapter
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Diversification: Designed for Effort Reorganisation for an intentional emphasis Child (2005) Suggests a bureaucratic structured organisation is not transparent for novelty and tractability. However‚ hierarchal structure has been working for decades and some employers like to work this way. Many employees prefer this type of structure as this will help them advance their careers when they perform. Organisational ‘Blueprint’ gives employees their boundaries of operations; in addition‚ this gives
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