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April 2008

Pedagogy What is Long/Short Equity ?

Hedge funds apply a vast array of investment strategies which can be more or less complex. In this article, we shall focus on the Long / Short strategy…

April 2008

Note The Social Role of Hedge Funds

Activists, interventionists, hedge funds are often perceived as the destroyers of capitalism. What is the real role of hedge funds?

March 2008

Note Towards an evolutionary approach of financial markets

If the prices of assets include all available information at every moment, then we can only beat the market by coincidence…

November 2007

Pedagogy Credit Default Swaps (CDS).

Politicians have, in general, a very rough knowledge on financial products, especially credit derivatives. In some cases, this may be a gap. Indeed, the icelandic prime minister is now aware of it...

October 2007

Note What is Structured Finance ?

If the current crisis (labelled as the subprime crisis) has highlighted the complexity of structured finance along with the necessity of developing more sophisticated risk management tools, it appears that a great deal of misunderstanding still prevails among economic and (...)

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