Content

Long-Short Equity

-  Mechanics of Short Selling

-  Stock Lending

-  Risk Management

-  130/30 Strategies

-  Derivative Trading Alternatives

Hedge Fund Investment Styles - Directional

-  Overview of Style variations - From Low to High

-  Market Exposure

-  Distressed Debt

-  Global Macro 

-  Managed Futures - Technical Analysis at work

Hedge Fund Investment Styles - Non-Directional

-  Market Neutral and Relative Value Arbitrage 

-  Equity and Fixed Income

-  Event-driven and Risk Arbitrage

-  ADR Arbitrage

-  Convertible Arbitrage

-  Hedge Fund Style Index Performance and Volatility Data

-  Lesson from 2009: Which Strategies worked, which did not & why

Funds of Hedge Funds

-  Rationale for the Fund of Funds Route

-  Diversification and Risk Management

-  Strategy and Manager Orientation

-  The Due Diligence process

-  Risk Management and the Monitoring Process

-  Fund of Funds in Practice