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Goal: To explain the prominence of these 'new' activities in recent times and to identify the influence these groups of investors can have on the conventional marketplace
Private Equity
- Description of how a private equity fund is created
- Impact of share buy-backs
- Risk appetite and investment horizons of investors
- Impact of private equity on a target
- The exit routes and success stories
Speaker to be confirmed
Hedge Funds
- Not such a new idea: description of a representative fund
- Justification for the flows of money into the hedge industry
- Styles of hedge fund manager: relative value, event-driven, opportunistic
- The impacts of leverage, and of hedge fund failures
- Prime brokerage
- Links between Private Equity and Hedge
Dr Chris Jones
Chief Investment Officer
KEY ASSET MANAGEMENT
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