discuss the history and failure of each of these three firms‚ what they had in common and what was unique to them‚ and finally the impact of their failures. Long Term Capital Management History In 1994‚ a very large pooled investment vehicle‚or hedge‚fund was created in Greenwich‚ Connecticut‚ USA1 calledLong Term Capital Management L.P‚ abbreviated by its acronym LTCM. LTCMwas
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case study‚ “How to Change World”‚ Alan Wilson is stressed and confused by the tempting offers from different persons. First‚ his best friend‚ Karl‚ is trying to persuade him to join the LSM Investments‚ which at there he will be working for a hedge fund and is able to make a great sum of money out of it within a short period. Second‚ Shiori Masaki has offered him a job that is both challenging and meaningful by providing cheaper medical access for the people in Third World countries. Third‚ the
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1. Do you think that the Interface approach is an example of how a company can successfully apply the CSR filter? Why or why not? 2. Could this approach be applied in the company or organization in which you work‚ have worked‚ or study? Why or why not? 1)I think after reading all the articles and chapters till now‚ this is the first time when i have truly felt CSR could actually be possible and make a difference from an Internal Stakeholder point of view. Profitability is seen to be the number
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In 1994‚ John Meriwether founded a hedge fund called Long-Term Capital Management. He was a successful bond trader and then senior manager at Salomon Brothers. After that‚ Meriwether assembled impressive team of experienced traders and specialists in mathematical finance. The core strategy they applied to make high profit was to make convergence trades. Since a large amount of investors were attracted by and confident in this strategy‚ it raised $1.3 billion totally. From 1994 to 1996‚ LTCM were
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Risk Arbitrage: Abbott Labs and Alza Harvard Business Review Case Study 1. BACKGROUND Risk Arbitrage is essentially just arbitrage with some element of risk. Three main types of risk arbitrage are merger and acquisition arbitrage (also known as just merger arbitrage)‚ liquidation arbitrage‚ and pairs trading. We will focus on merger arbitrage‚ as it pertains to this case study. Merger arbitrage is an investment strategy that chooses to capitalize upon arbitrage that presents when a merger
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Stanley Merrill Lynch & Co Inc Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. Charles Schwab Corp. E Trade Financial Corp Customers: Customers in this industry are individual and institutional investors‚ mutual fund managers‚ hedge fund managers‚ corporations‚ and governments. Key Issues: We have identified following key issues that are confronting securities brokerage industry: 1. Transparency and easy access to personal information 2. Privacy in the information age 3
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“UK Open-Ended Mutual Funds Industry pre and post the Global Financial Crisis: Performance Persistence and Return Attribution” By Dimitris Xydias Abstract This dissertation project tests the persistence in performance of a survivorship bias controlled sample of 574 UK Open-End Mutual Funds for the period between 31/12/1999 and 31/12/2011 and decomposes the funds’ returns into factors. The former is done by employing both parametric and non-parametric approaches to identify persistence and the
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efficiency. 3 Prof. Doron Avramov‚ The Jerusalem School of Business Administration‚ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem‚ Investment Management Syllabus: Contents Analyzing performance of mutual funds; Comparing properties of mutual funds and hedge funds; Examining evidence on profitable trading strategies in global and domestic markets‚ especially‚ the size‚ value‚ price momentum‚ earnings momentum‚ and volatility effects in stock prices; Forming optimal portfolios with constraints; Investing
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internal and external forces so you can formulate a clearer path to an outcome‚ whether it’s the right one or not.” For investors‚ using a SWOT analysis can give insight into a company’s worth beyond what the data shows‚ says James Early‚ a former hedge fund manager who is now an advisor to the investor newsletter service run by the Motley Fool‚ a financial services company. “The great lie of investing is that models are precise. Numbers give the illusion of security‚” Early notes. “Having that SWOT
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Lessons Learned From Long Term Capital Management LTCM was selling liquidity as their fund structure was more similar to an investment bank than a typical hedge fund. When investors or issuers need to change their positions or risk exposure‚ they would go to an investment bank or dealer to buy or sell securities. In turn‚ the dealer would utilize the capital markets to offload the exposure. LTCM was often on the other side of these transactions‚ in some sense‚ wholesaling risk to the investment
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