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21 May 2020 Multimedia

Practitioners’ Insights: Hedge Fund Strategies and Derivatives Trading

  1. Supreeth Shankarghal
  2. Shreenivas Kunte, CFA, CIPM

In this webinar, Supreeth Shankargal provided a ringside overview of some of the most common derivative trading strategies used by hedge funds.

Wondering how hedge funds make money? Here is a quick glimpse on derivatives trading strategies from a hedge fund manager’s playbook. In this webinar, Supreeth Shankarghal will share his money-making and risk-management insights as well as practical case studies covering the following learning outcomes:

  1. Leveraged futures trading vs. non-leveraged futures trading
  2. Hedging risky future bets with options when they go wrong
  3. Trading in event based and non-event based scenarios
  4. Using options for hedging and speculation
  5. Structuring the portfolio with non-cash based collateral

Note: Please go through the following two refresher readings on derivatives. This webinar contains some content with Indian case studies.

  1. Basics of Derivative Pricing and Valuation
  2. Derivative Markets and Instruments

This is the archived version of a live webinar that took place on 21 May 2020