Managing a Hedge Fund
Efficiency & Performance
- Investment professionals
- Finance teams
- 3 days
Managing a Hedge Fund is all about building your own models, developing your own strategy, running the data and testing the historical returns.
The course uses Excel as the platform for model building and draws on public data for model testing. We discuss in detail different hedge fund strategies and how to incorporate different strategies into you models. You will learn to build models that:
- Collate data for assessment
- Select shares for inclusion in the hedge
- Set up a hedge to be market neutral (and/or other neutral strategies) using Solver
- Determine the ideal weighting of investment for the hedge
- Test the performance using historical data
- Learn about the fee and cost models of running a hedge fund