NY 10017 Subject: New market for hedge funds Dear Mr. Dimon: It is a pleasure for ABS Consultants to be working with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. As follow-up to our initial conversations‚ we have considered various trends occurring within the financial arena‚ and have identified one trend specifically within the space of alternate investments that would most benefit your firm. The concept underlying this trend is the lack of accessibility to hedge funds for non-accredited retail investors
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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: Switching
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Overview of Bayou Hedge Fund Group and the man behind it: 1. What is Bayou: Bayou Capital is a Hedge Fund company. 2. What happened to it: Founded in 1996 with 450 millions raised from investors. Furnished for the first 2 years. But losses started mounting ever since. Eventually‚ Bayou collapsed in 2005. And 2 founders were pledged to guilty due to a serious fraud and conspiracy. 3. Who is this man behind the fraud: Sam Israel III A rich kid from New Orleans. The Israel’s founded a commodities
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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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and fall of a hedge fund that brought the financial world to its knees when it lost $4 billion trading exotic derivatives. This short biography is in a nutshell about risk management‚ this is a gripping book of our era that tells the financial story of what happened to a group of intellectuals that believed that they could actually deconstruct risk and use virtually limitless leverage to create limitless wealth. The book describes the failure of Long term Capital management a hedge fund that was founded
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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 companies
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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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and geopolitical events. Hedge funds and other institutional investors are tapping so-called macro thinkers like economists Martin Feldstein‚ Henry Kaufman and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at a time when fundamental analysis is often being overwhelmed by big-picture political and governmental risks. This year alone‚ hedge fund EQA Partners brought on former Federal Reserve governor Randall Kroszner‚ and Brevan Howard‚ a British-based hedge fund‚ hired Shelley Goldberg‚ a former
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Libor Scandal What is Libor and why does it matter? Libor stands for London Interbank Offered Rate. “It is considered to be an average interest rate which is estimated by some leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.” Libor rate is considered to be the primary benchmark for short term interest rates around the world. It is the average cost of borrowing and is estimated on a daily basis by a group of banks as mentioned above. Libor rate gained momentum around
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fiduciary D. inject E. lightly F. long G. opportune H. other I. spate J. stocks K. swings L. unconventional M. under N. who O. worth | A hedge fund is a fund that sells some (51)_______ short‚ and buys (52)_______ stocks (53)_______; with this technique‚ the overall value of buying and selling balances out‚ thereby (54)_______ heavy losses due to large market
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