Programme Details
The Hedge Funds Executive Education course parlays cutting edge academic research into valuable lessons for the finance practitioner. The programme seeks to explain why hedge funds have been so attractive in the recent years and whether this performance is sustainable.
It begins with an overview of the hedge fund industry, its key players, and its recent developments. It then leverages on recent advances in research and introduces a comprehensive framework for understanding hedge funds. This framework encompasses a wide range of hedge fund strategies and is used to demonstrate how hedge fund investment models differ from those of mutual funds and how alphas can be measured. With the help of real world case studies and the hedge fund models, we analyse landmark events in the industry and distill important risk management lessons from each disaster.
The programme also reviews the latest work on hedge fund performance, informational asymmetry, fund characteristics, and managerial incentives. To aid hedge fund selection, it explores how fund investment performance is related to past performance, geography, fund size, and high powered incentives. Finally, the programme examines the changes in the hedge fund industry brought on by the arrival of the clones or synthetic hedge funds and discusses the equilibrium implications in terms of performance evaluation, incentive fee negotiation, and capital movements.
Programme Fees:
Public: SGD 3950
MAS/ BNP Paribas/ CFA Singapore Members: SGD 3450
All fees are due in advance and include all educational material and lunch breaks.
Organisations sponsoring Singapore-based participants may be eligible for Financial Sector Development Fund (FSDF) support on a case-by-case basis.
Interested organisations should submit their applications to the FSDF Secretariat directly prior to programme commencement. For enquiries, please contact the FSDF Secretariat at 6229-9396 or via email at fsdf@mas.gov.sg
Dates:
9 & 10 October 2008
Time:
0900 hrs - 1800 hrs (9 Oct)
0900 hrs - 1830 hrs (10 Oct)
Venue:
Singapore Management University
Administration Building (Opposite Carlton Hotel, next to NTUC Income Centre)
Executive Media Threatre, Level 5
81 Victoria Street
Singapore 188065
http://www.smu.edu.sg/campus/map/index.asp
Participants who are keen to register are encouraged to do so online HERE
All payments are to be made online by Mastercard or Visa.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received in writing. The following charges apply for cancellations received:
- 4 weeks prior to the course commencement no charge
- 2 to 4 weeks prior to the course commencement 30% of program fee
- 1 to 2 weeks prior to the course commencement 60% of program fee
- Less than 1 week prior to the course commencement 100% of program fee
Should you have any queries, please contact Ms Karen Chew at 6828 0933 or karenchew@smu.edu.sg
