Absolute Returns

"Absolute Returns" ist ein praktischer Leitfaden zu den Risiken und Gewinnmöglichkeiten im Bereich Hedge Funds. Mit diesem Buch lernen Sie, solide Entscheidungen für Investitionen in Hedge Funds zu treffen. Autor Alexander Ineichen erläutert ausführlich, was Hedge Funds sind, wie diese Fonds den Markt übertreffen können, und welche Risiken sie für den Investor bergen. Er erklärt auch, wie Hedge Funds als alternative Investments mit traditionellen Portfolios kombiniert werden können, um auf diese Weise hervorragende Risiko-Rendite-Eigenschaften zu erreichen. Ausserdem beschreibt er, welche neuen Strategien Hedge Funds einsetzen, um überdurchschnittliche Renditen zu erzielen. Einfach, verständlich und nachvollziehbar geschrieben.

How to use chart patterns to consistently achieve absolute returns Robert Fischer, a pioneer in developing trading strategies for Fibonacci price and time analysis, has now developed charting analysis that achieve absolute returns in bull, bear, and trendless markets. In Trading with Charts for Absolute Returns, Fischer provides traders with a shortcut from the intensive programming and data analysis work, explaining which patterns work, the best markets to trade using the strategies, and advanced trading signals. Uncovers the key chart patterns that work best in combination to provide real returns year-after-year and in all markets Provides an augmented futures strategy for bear markets Includes exclusive access to the Trading with Charts for Absolute Returns Web site with historical data and trading signals While relative returns provide a means of judging performance on a comparative basis, as the saying goes, "you can't eat relative returns." Absolute returns is the only thing that matters, and Trading with Charts for Absolute Returns shows how to routinely achieve just that.

A pioneering reference essential in any financial library, the Encyclopedia of Alternative Investments is the most authoritative source on alternative investments for students, researchers, and practitioners in this area. Containing 545 entries, the encyclopedia focuses on hedge funds, managed futures, commodities, and venture capital. It features contributions from well-known, respected academics and professionals from around the world. More than a glossary, the book includes academic references for money managers and investors who want to understand the jargon and delve into the definitions. About the Editor Greg N. Gregoriou, Ph.D., is Professor of Finance in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA. A prolific author, Dr. Gregoriou is hedge fund editor of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Wealth Management and the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. His research primarily focuses on hedge funds and managed futures.

In Asymmetric Returns, financial expert Alexander Ineichen elevates the critical discussion about alpha versus beta and absolute returns versus relative returns. He argues that controlling downside volatility is a key element in asset management if sustainable positive compounding of capital and financial survival are major objectives. Achieving sustainable positive absolute returns are the result of taking and managing risk wisely, that is, an active risk management process where risk is defined in absolute terms and changes in the market place are accounted for. The result of an active risk management process-when successful-is an asymmetric return profile, that is, more and higher returns on the upside and fewer and lower returns on the downside. Ineichen claims that achieving Asymmetric Returns is the future of active asset management. Alexander M. Ineichen, CFA, CAIA, is Managing Director and Senior Investment Officer for the Alternative Investment Solutions team, a key provider within Alternative and Quantitative Investments, itself a business within UBS Global Asset Management. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA). Ineichen is the author of the two UBS research publications In Search of Alpha—Investing in Hedge Funds (October 2000) and The Search for Alpha Continues—Do Fund of Hedge Funds Add Value? (September 2001). As of 2006 these two reports were the most often printed research papers in the documented history of UBS. He is also author of the widely popular Absolute Returns—The Risk and Opportunities of Hedge Fund Investing, also published by John Wiley & Sons.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Börse, Versicherung, Note: 1,7, Universität Bayreuth, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die US-Hypothekenkrise des vergangenen Jahres führte weltweit zu einem hohen Kursverfall an den Aktienmärkten und nach Schätzungen der Asiatischen Entwicklungsbank (ADB) damit zu Verlusten in Höhe von 50 Billionen Dollar bei den Anlegern. Damit rückt das originäre Motiv der Geldanlage, nämlich die Erzielung absolut positiver Renditen, wieder stärker in den Fokus der Investoren. Die Investmentbranche trägt diesen veränderten Anlegerbedürfnissen durch die Entwicklung vielfältiger Anlagekonzepte Rechnung, die zur Abgrenzung von traditionellen Anlagekonzepten mit den Attributen "Absolute Return" oder "Total Return" versehen werden . Damit ist in den letzten fünf Jahren der Markt für in Deutschland zum Vertrieb zugelassene Absolute Return Produkte um durchschnittlich 37% pro Jahr gewachsen und umfasst nun ein Volumen von mehr als 33 Milliarden Euro. Verstärkt wird diese Entwicklung in Deutschland durch die Liberalisierung des Marktes im Zuge des Investmentmodernisierungsgesetzes von 2004, das erstmalig den Einsatz von Derivaten in Fondskonzepten sowie bei Pensionseinrichtungen und Versicherungen erlaubt. Diese starken Wachstumsraten werfen die Frage auf, mit welchen Strategien absolute Erträge erwirtschaftet werden und ob dieses Anlagekonzept eine ernsthafte Alternative zum benchmarkorientierten Portfolio Management darstellt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet ausgehend von dem von Dichtl und Schlenger (2009) verfassten Aufsatz "Absolute Return: Theorie und Empirie am Beispiel der Best-of-two Stragie" das Konzept des Absolute Return Versprechens näher. Ziel ist es, den Ansatz und die zentralen Strategien, mit denen Anbieter von Absolute Return Produkten diesem Anspruch gerecht werden, darzulegen und abschließend kritisch zu würdigen. Dazu wird im 2. Kapitel zunächst eine begriffliche Abgrenzung des Absolute Return Approach z

To make money in this troubled economy you need to understand where the markets are headed, not where they?ve been. Clinging to outdated strategies and played out market trends are sure ways to miss out on new investments, and in The Little Book of Bull?s Eye Investing, acclaimed investment expert John Mauldin teaches you how to read the direction of the markets to make decisions that capitalize on today?s investment opportunities. A practical road map to what?s in store for the markets to help you stay ahead of the curve, the book debunks many of the myths that have come to govern investment logic, particularly the buy-and-hold, relative return vehicles that Wall Street peddles to unsuspecting investors. Giving you a clear view of the trends shaping the markets right now which are likely to provide investment options for the decade ahead, The Little Book of Bull?s Eye Investing teaches the value of careful research before you put your money to work. Whether the market is on its way up or down, there are always excellent opportunities to invest profitably. You just need to know where they are. Looking at how the markets have behaved in the past to make an educated prediction about where they?re going, The Little Book of Bull?s Eye Investing explains how to make investment decisions that make sense today, whether you?re trading stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, or anything else. Making the most of the markets is like hitting a moving target?difficult, but not impossible?and with The Little Book of Bull?s Eye Investing in hand, you have everything you need to improve your eye for investing and make stable and secure trading decisions that can turn a profit in even the most turbulent of times.

This book shows how current and recent market prices convey information about the probability distributions that govern future prices. Moving beyond purely theoretical models, Stephen Taylor applies methods supported by empirical research of equity and foreign exchange markets to show how daily and more frequent asset prices, and the prices of option contracts, can be used to construct and assess predictions about future prices, their volatility, and their probability distributions. Stephen Taylor provides a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic behavior of asset prices, relying on finance theory and statistical evidence. He uses stochastic processes to define mathematical models for price dynamics, but with less mathematics than in alternative texts. The key topics covered include random walk tests, trading rules, ARCH models, stochastic volatility models, high-frequency datasets, and the information that option prices imply about volatility and distributions. Asset Price Dynamics, Volatility, and Prediction is ideal for students of economics, finance, and mathematics who are studying financial econometrics, and will enable researchers to identify and apply appropriate models and methods. It will likewise be a valuable resource for quantitative analysts, fund managers, risk managers, and investors who seek realistic expectations about future asset prices and the risks to which they are exposed.