January 2013
Beginner
350 pages
10h 25m
English
book
Hedge Fund Investing: A Practical Approach to Understanding Investor Motivation, Manager Profits, and Fund Performance
by Kevin R. Mirabile
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Discussion Questions and Problems
1. What are the variations in styles within the fixed-income relative strategy?
2. What was the AUM of the relative value sector as of 2002 versus today?
3. Why has it grown or contracted?
4. When did relative value and credit strategies lose money, and what conditions might have existed that caused these strategies to lose money?
5. What sort of investors are attracted to the strategy, and why?
6. What is the return profile of the sector, and how does it compare to traditional fixed-income or bond investing?
7. How does fixed-income relative value compare to global macro funds?
8. How does fixed-income relative value compare to long and short equity funds?
9. Why is the strategy popular today?
10. What has been the most recent performance of the strategy?
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