Understanding hedge fund for accountants - Workshop 2019

Overview

This workshop is specially designed for finance professionals who want to gain knowledge in hedge fund. This alternative asset class is one of the key earning pillars within top-tiered investment banks and becoming more popular in Asia (particularly in HK and China).

In this workshop, the speaker will unveil the scene behind the fund manager of fedge fund including their trading strategies, value creation drivers, due diligence checklist, and the risk and return performance measures from investment bankers’ perspectives.

Key topics covered:

• Why Hedge Fund?
• Difference between hedge fund and traditional fund
• Different type of hedge fund strategy (such as long-short equities, relative value, event driven)
• Performance Measure from investment banker’s perspective
• New role of hedge fund in Mergers and Acquisitions deal

Trainer profile:

D Tang has over 20 years of experience in risk management and product risk analysis at various leading US and European investment and corporate banks. His product coverage ranges from trade finance to syndicated loans, derivatives and structured products, and leveraged financing for corporate (SME and corporate) banks, financial institutions and funds in Greater China and SE Asia region. D Tang is also experienced in providing both internal and external training to various investment and corporate banks, government supervisory bodies, and various professional institutes.

Objectives

• Explain key value and risk drivers in investing hedge fund
• Discuss how fund managers pick the good hedge fund by considering different return and risk parameters
• Recognise beyond traditional investment class and the key investment considerations behind the scene of the hedge fund managers

Audience

This workshop is suitable for finance professionals, accountants, relationship managers and investors.