Market neutral investing long/short hedge fund strategies

"This is a book that looks at market-neutral strategies head on, assessing those that have worked and some notable ones that have failed - and explaining why. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Market-Neutral Investing is an essential resource for professional i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nicholas, Joseph G., 1959- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Bloomberg Press 2000.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Bloomberg professional library
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Investing in Relationships
  • What Is Market Neutral?
  • Relationship Investing
  • Understanding Market-Neutral Approaches
  • Developments in the Hedge Fund Industry
  • Hedge Fund Industry Assets
  • Hedge Fund Investors
  • Hedge Fund Strategies
  • Making an Investment in Market-Neutral Strategies
  • Linear Analysis of Returns
  • Reducing Exposure to Risk
  • Market-Neutral and Hedged Strategies
  • Convertible Arbitrage
  • Fixed-Income Arbitrage
  • Mortgage-Backed Securities Arbitrage
  • Merger Arbitrage
  • Equity Hedge
  • Equity Market-Neutral and Statistical Arbitrage
  • Relative Value Arbitrage
  • Achieving Superior Risk-Adjusted Returns
  • Assessing the Risks
  • Transparency
  • Focusing on the Underlying Strategies
  • Convertible Arbitrage
  • Convertible Bond Valuation
  • Statistical Advantage
  • Convertible Valuation Components
  • Convertible Arbitrage Approaches
  • Quantitative Screens
  • Kinds of Hedges
  • Setting Up a Market-Neutral Hedge
  • Setting up a Bullish Hedge
  • Setting up a Bearish Hedge
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Hedge Analysis
  • Portfolio Construction
  • Liquidity
  • Leverage
  • Source of Return
  • Convertible Bond Market History
  • Recent Growth and Developments in Convertible Arbitrage
  • Performance in Adverse Market Conditions
  • Historical Examples
  • Fixed-Income Arbitrage
  • Fixed-Income Arbitrage Approaches
  • Basis Trades
  • Asset Swaps
  • TED Spreads
  • Yield Curve Arbitrage
  • Relative Value Trades
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Risks
  • Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate Risk
  • Sources of Return
  • Financing
  • Repurchase Agreements
  • Technology
  • Liquidity
  • Events
  • Manager Skill and Hard Work
  • Growth and Recent Developments in Fixed-Income Arbitrage
  • Mortgage-Backed Securities Arbitrage
  • Mortgage-Backed Structures or Sectors (Types of MBS Instruments)
  • Mortgage-Backed Securities' Evolution
  • Pass-Throughs
  • Basic Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
  • CMO Tranches
  • Valuation Methods
  • Option-Adjusted Spreads
  • Information Systems
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Duration
  • Effective and Partial Duration
  • Parallel and Rotational Shifts of the Yield Curve
  • Convexity
  • Prepayment Duration
  • Pricing
  • Source of Return
  • Valuation Models
  • Liquidity
  • Financing
  • Hedging Techniques
  • Recent Developments in MBS Arbitrage
  • Merger Arbitrage
  • Merger Arbitrage Approaches
  • Cash Mergers or Tender Offers
  • Stock Swap Mergers
  • Stock Swap Mergers with a Collar
  • Multiple Bidder Situations
  • Leveraged Buyouts and Hostile Takeovers
  • Risks
  • Event Risk
  • Deal Flow
  • Liquidity
  • Risk Control
  • Diversification
  • Leverage
  • Source of Return
  • Growth and Recent Developments in Merger Arbitrage
  • Deal Flow and Other Factors Affecting Volume
  • Stress Period: The Third Quarter of 1998
  • Returns
  • Equity Hedge
  • Investment Themes and Fundamental Analysis
  • Investment Themes
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Equity Hedge Approaches
  • Quantitative vs. Qualitative Mix
  • Universe of Stocks
  • Style
  • Liquidity
  • Net Market Exposure
  • Research
  • Leverage
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Stock-Picking Risk
  • Market Risk
  • Universe of Stocks
  • Diversification
  • Sell Disciplines
  • Source of Return
  • Recent Growth and Developments in Equity Hedge Investing
  • Equity Market-Neutral and Statistical Arbitrage
  • Equity Market-Neutral Approaches
  • Initial Screen: Universe of Investable Stocks
  • Stock Selection
  • Mean Reversion-Based Approaches
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Portfolio Construction and Optimization
  • Manager Styles--Putting It All Together
  • Source of Return
  • Recent Growth and Developments in Equity Market-Neutral Investing
  • Relative Value Arbitrage
  • Relative Value Arbitrage Approaches
  • Convertible Arbitrage
  • Merger Arbitrage
  • Equity Statistical Arbitrage
  • Pairs Trading
  • Fixed-Income Arbitrage
  • Options and Warrants Trading
  • Capital Structure Arbitrage
  • Regulation D (Structured Discount Convertible) Arbitrage
  • Risks and Risk Control
  • Strategy Mix
  • Strategy Weightings
  • Source of Return
  • Growth and Recent Developments in Relative Value Arbitrage.