The MBA Hedge Funds Fundamentals Course

The MBA Hedge Funds Fundamentals Course, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 110 lectures, 8 quizzes, based on 36 reviews, and has 490 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn How Hedge Fund Managers Develop their Trading Strategies. Learn How Hedge Fund Strategies Originated and Grew Over Time. Learn How Corporate Finance Inspired Hedge Fund Strategies. Learn How Financial Regulation Impact Hedge Fund Strategies. Discover How MBA Level Courses in Hedge Funds are Delivered. Learn How Various Hedge Fund Strategies have Performed over Time. Learn About Major Hedge Fund Failures such as Long Term Capital Management. Learn How Failures can Lead to the Dissipation of Billions in Days or Weeks. This course is ideal for individuals who are Any Financial Analyst Looking to Expand their Knowledge of Hedge Funds. or Any Aspiring Investment Banking Analyst Wishing to Broaden their Knowledge of Hedge Funds. or Anyone Applying to an MBA Program Wishing to Expand their Knowledge of Finance Fundamentals and Hedge Funds. or Anyone Applying for a Job at a Hedge Fund or a Private Equity Fund. or Any Current MBA Student or Graduate who was not Offered a Course on Hedge Funds. or Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers and Other Professionals Wishing to Learn about Hedge Funds. It is particularly useful for Any Financial Analyst Looking to Expand their Knowledge of Hedge Funds. or Any Aspiring Investment Banking Analyst Wishing to Broaden their Knowledge of Hedge Funds. or Anyone Applying to an MBA Program Wishing to Expand their Knowledge of Finance Fundamentals and Hedge Funds. or Anyone Applying for a Job at a Hedge Fund or a Private Equity Fund. or Any Current MBA Student or Graduate who was not Offered a Course on Hedge Funds. or Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers and Other Professionals Wishing to Learn about Hedge Funds.

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Summary

Title: The MBA Hedge Funds Fundamentals Course

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 110

Number of Quizzes: 8

Number of Published Lectures: 110

Number of Published Quizzes: 8

Number of Curriculum Items: 120

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 120

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Learn How Hedge Fund Managers Develop their Trading Strategies.

Learn How Hedge Fund Strategies Originated and Grew Over Time.

Learn How Corporate Finance Inspired Hedge Fund Strategies.

Learn How Financial Regulation Impact Hedge Fund Strategies.

Discover How MBA Level Courses in Hedge Funds are Delivered.

Learn How Various Hedge Fund Strategies have Performed over Time.

Learn About Major Hedge Fund Failures such as Long Term Capital Management.

Learn How Failures can Lead to the Dissipation of Billions in Days or Weeks.

Who Should Attend

Any Financial Analyst Looking to Expand their Knowledge of Hedge Funds.

Any Aspiring Investment Banking Analyst Wishing to Broaden their Knowledge of Hedge Funds.

Anyone Applying to an MBA Program Wishing to Expand their Knowledge of Finance Fundamentals and Hedge Funds.

Anyone Applying for a Job at a Hedge Fund or a Private Equity Fund.

Any Current MBA Student or Graduate who was not Offered a Course on Hedge Funds.

Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers and Other Professionals Wishing to Learn about Hedge Funds.

Target Audiences

Any Financial Analyst Looking to Expand their Knowledge of Hedge Funds.

Any Aspiring Investment Banking Analyst Wishing to Broaden their Knowledge of Hedge Funds.

Anyone Applying to an MBA Program Wishing to Expand their Knowledge of Finance Fundamentals and Hedge Funds.

Anyone Applying for a Job at a Hedge Fund or a Private Equity Fund.

Any Current MBA Student or Graduate who was not Offered a Course on Hedge Funds.

Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers and Other Professionals Wishing to Learn about Hedge Funds.

This is an MBA Level course on Hedge Fund Fundamentals. We will begin by examining how Corporate Finance inspired Hedge Fund Strategies. We will examine Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure decisions. We will examine Stock and Bond Pricing as well as Economic Breakeven. We will begin our Analysis of Hedge Funds by examining the Origins of Hedge Funds. We will examine how Financial Regulation starting with the Securities Act of 1933 shaped Hedge Funds. We will also examine the 40 Acts and Dodd-Frank. Hedge Funds were brought under regulatory purview following the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. We will examine the adoption of Form PF in the United States and EU AIFMD in Europe. We will examine the growth of Hedge funds from its origins in the 1920s to the current time.

Once we have examined the Fundamentals of Hedge Funds, we will shift our focus to how hedge funds operate. We will examine the roles of the major Service Providers such as Prime Brokers, Custodians and Administrators. We will examine the process of Net Asset Value (NAV) calculation.

Following our Discussion of Service Providers, we will analyze hedge fund strategies. We will examine the three major Groups of Strategies which are Relative Value, Event Driven and Opportunistic. We will examine common trading strategies and map historical returns of those strategies. We will examine historical returns for the US, EU and other jurisdictions. We will examine historical returns from four sources: Credit Suisse, HFR, BarclayHedge and Edhec-Risk. We will discuss why certain strategies have not been able to generate stellar returns.

Finally, we will examine some of the major Hedge Fund Failures. We will examine the big four failures i.e. Long Term Capital Management, Amaranth Advisors, SAC Capital and Bernard Madoff Investment Securities.

This is a 14+ hours course with numerous downloadable resources. Each Lecture Video is accompanied by a Lecture Plan. The Lecture Plan is a Word Document listing 10-15 bullet points for each Lecture. I recommend viewing the Lecture Plan before watching the Videos. Scroll down and watch the Preview Lectures on Course Materials, Life Cycle of Companies and Origins of Hedge Funds. I will see you in the Course!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction Video

Lecture 2: Course Materials

Lecture 3: Features of MBA Courses

Lecture 4: The Basics of Excel

Chapter 2: From Corporate Finance to Hedge Funds

Lecture 1: Why Corporate Finance Matters

Lecture 2: The Company Life Cycle

Lecture 3: Investment and Financing Decisions

Lecture 4: Balance Sheet and Equity Values

Lecture 5: Modeling the Stock Price

Lecture 6: Bond Prices and Characteristics

Lecture 7: Calculating Bond Prices Part 1

Lecture 8: Calculating Bond Prices Part 2

Lecture 9: Coupon Rates and Yield to Maturity

Lecture 10: Determining Coupon Rates and Yields Part 1

Lecture 11: Determining Coupon Rates and Yields Part 2

Lecture 12: Clean and Dirty Bond Prices

Lecture 13: Economic Breakeven

Lecture 14: Returns and Performance Measurement

Lecture 15: SEC Forms Part 1

Lecture 16: SEC Forms Part 2

Lecture 17: Forms in Other Jurisdictions

Lecture 18: Risk Management

Lecture 19: Role of Relative Value Hedge Funds

Lecture 20: Role of Event Driven Hedge Funds

Lecture 21: Role of Opportunistic Hedge Funds

Lecture 22: From Corporate Finance to Hedge Funds

Chapter 3: Hedge Fund Fundamentals

Lecture 1: The Origins Of Hedge Funds

Lecture 2: What are Hedge Funds?

Lecture 3: Purpose of Hedge Funds

Lecture 4: Financial Intermediaries

Lecture 5: Purpose of Hedge Funds – Find Poorly Performing Companies

Lecture 6: Purpose of Hedge Funds – Funding Startups

Lecture 7: Purpose of Hedge Funds – Find Irregularities

Lecture 8: Purpose of Hedge Funds – Finding Fraud

Lecture 9: Purpose of Hedge Funds – Find Inefficiencies in the Economy

Lecture 10: What Motivates a Hedge Fund Manager?

Lecture 11: Further Hedge Fund Insights

Lecture 12: Long and Short Positions

Lecture 13: Investments Versus Investment Strategies

Lecture 14: Securities Act of 1933

Lecture 15: Investment Company Act Part 1

Lecture 16: Investment Company Act Part 2

Lecture 17: Investment Advisers Act

Lecture 18: Hedge Fund Regulation

Lecture 19: Form PF

Lecture 20: EU AIFMD

Lecture 21: Growth of Hedge Funds

Lecture 22: Recap of Hedge Fund Fundamentals

Chapter 4: Operating Hedge Funds

Lecture 1: How Hedge Funds Operate

Lecture 2: Parallel Funds Versus Master Feeder Arrangements

Lecture 3: The Prime Broker and Custodian

Lecture 4: What Hedge Funds are Not

Lecture 5: The Administrator

Lecture 6: Top Administrators and Prime Brokers Worldwide

Lecture 7: The Auditor and Law Firm

Lecture 8: Net Asset Value

Lecture 9: Service Providers Play a Key Role

Chapter 5: Hedge Fund Strategies

Lecture 1: Analyzing Hedge Fund Strategies

Lecture 2: Side Pockets and Co-Investments

Lecture 3: Introduction to Relative Value Strategies

Lecture 4: Defining Convertible Arbitrage and Bonds

Lecture 5: Convertible Bond Mutual Funds

Lecture 6: Convertible Arbitrage – The Details

Lecture 7: Convertible Arbitrage – A Numerical Example

Lecture 8: Convertible Arbitrage Performance

Lecture 9: Convertible Arbitrage Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 10: Fixed Income Arbitrage Performance

Lecture 11: Fixed Income Arbitrage Numerical Examples Part 1

Lecture 12: Fixed Income Arbitrage Numerical Example Part 2

Lecture 13: Fixed Income Arbitrage Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 14: Defining Equity Market Neutral Strategies

Lecture 15: Equity Market Neutral Historical Performance

Lecture 16: Equity Market Neutral Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 17: Introduction to Event Driven Strategies

Lecture 18: Merger Arbitrage – The Details

Lecture 19: Merger Arbitrage Historical Perfomance

Lecture 20: Merger Arbitrage Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 21: Distressed Securities – The Details

Lecture 22: Distressed Securities Historical Performance

Lecture 23: Distressed Securities Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 24: Introduction to Opportunistic Strategies

Lecture 25: Long Short Equity – The Details

Lecture 26: Long and Short Positions

Lecture 27: Long Short Equity Historical Performance

Lecture 28: Equity Long/Short Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 29: Emerging Markets Details and Historical Performance

Lecture 30: Emerging Markets Outlook Going Forward

Lecture 31: Global Macro – The Details

Instructors

Raj Gupta, Ph.D, Licensed Insurance Agent, MBA Teaching Experience
Financial Economist | Hedge Fund Analyst | Educator | Author

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