Hedge Funds & Alternative Strategies

The hedge fund wrapper covers an enormous range of actual strategies - long/short equity, global macro, relative value, systematic - with very different return drivers and risk profiles. This guide collects the Knowledge Hub's entries on hedge funds and alternative strategy mechanics: what the strategies actually do, how the vehicles are structured, and what an allocator should examine before committing capital.

All entries in this guide

• Event-Driven - Event-driven strategies profit from corporate catalysts - mergers, bankruptcies, spin-offs, restructurings -…
• Global Macro - Global macro takes top-down positions on interest rates, currencies, equities, and commodities across…
• Hedge Funds - Hedge funds are actively managed investment vehicles for qualified investors, structured to use techniques…
• Long/Short Equity - Long/short equity buys undervalued stocks and shorts overvalued ones, aiming to earn the spread between the…
• Managed Futures - Managed futures, run by CTAs, systematically trades a diversified basket of liquid futures - mostly via…
• Relative Value - Relative-value strategies profit from abnormal spreads between related securities converging to fair value -…

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