Hedge Funds: The Complete Guide
What you'll learn
- Understand hedge funds and the strategies of the masters of finance.
- Prep for the CFA.
- Expand your knowledge to a larger investment universe.
- Understand different strategies, long and short, to potentially navigate any bear or bull market.
Requirements
- Basic interest in hedge funds and investment banking.
- Basic financial knowledge.
- Limited math. Programming optional.
Description
Introduction to hedge funds, executing brokers and prime brokers, both synthetic (derivatives) and traditional, what they are, what they do and what risks are associated with them. This course is about the interrelationship between hedge funds, investment banks and their investors.
The course will provide a broad review or many different areas of hedge funds and investment banks from strategies, management, operations and marketing. Also, the history of hedge funds will be explored, including the risks of failure of hedge funds, such as LTCM, and brokers, such as Lehman Brothers, and the distress or certain investment banks, such as Bear Stearns. Also, practical applications of launching and running a simulated hedge fund will demonstrate the challenges, risks and potential rewards of alternative investments to investors, hedge funds and their service providers.
New updates for Covid-19 trading and investment strategies.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone from undergrad commerce students to experienced professionals,
- Pre-MBA
- Post-MBA
- Industry pros looking to get into alternative investments.
Instructor
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Jon has experience as a portfolio manager with an alternative investment asset management firm. He is also a lecturer in Finance and has taught courses on hedge funds and broker-dealers, derivatives and corporate finance. He is also a charted investment manager, and has run alternative investment funds and other alternative investment platforms.
Jon worked for a bulge bracket investment bank in London, U.K., and has advised and represented leading asset managers and banks globally. He holds an MBA from Oxford University and a law degree from Queen's University, a Master's in Philosophy, and several advanced certificates on fintech, AI and deep learning from MIT.