George Soros

How hedge funds are managed 2.4 trillion. Dollars

A well balanced investment portfolio can consist of stocks, bonds, currency, real estate and that, what is called "alternative investment instruments" in financial circles. This last mysterious category includes (apart from other exotic) 10 thousand. hedge funds, who manage almost 2.4 trillion. Doll. assets around the world. Financial publications and gossip sections have been using the term "hedge fund" for years.. But how exactly do hedge funds manage to manage such an incredible amount of capital?? The answer to this question consists of complex calculations, stuffed with Greek letters, but for that, to understand the basics, PhD not needed. If you don't go into details, hedge funds use eight basic strategies: Long/short (Long/short) (25%): investment strategy of the first hedge fund, launched in 1949 by sociologist and financial journalist Alferd Winslow Jones, based on the idea that, that "short" sales (bet against market movement) balance the portfolio and deliver higher returns with less volatility. The increased volume of investments and the number of funds themselves negatively affected the effectiveness of the strategy, но она до сих пор остается наиболее популярной. Другая проблема – корреляция. Стратегия лонг/шорт работает тогда, когда недооцененные акции растут, и переоцененные – падают в цене. In a situation, когда рынок движется равномерно (how, for example, в 2011-ом и периодически – в 2012-ом годах), эта стратегия оказывается невыгодной.

Leo Melamed

One of the most powerful figures in the financial world – Leo Melamed (Leo Melamed) – revolutionized the trade futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. However, like his colleague’s financial genius of George Soros, Melamed first had to take an amazing journey that included slipping away from the Nazis and the Russian to get into the United States. In 1939, he and his family fled from Poland to Lithuania, but when they were there, they needed transit visas to continue the journey. “Even my philosophically minded father – told Melamed – could not explain how you can reduce a person’s life to wait in line a piece of paper, which could mean the difference between life and death.” Crossing Siberia by train, the young Melamed learned my first lesson in strategy – stay calm and focus under fire – for, to his amazement, his father fell into chess, apparently ignoring the chaos around him.

George Soros (George Soros)

Native of Hungary, George Soros learned all his survival instincts from his father during the German occupation in World War II.. They were Jews., so my father took out false documents and found places, where can you hide. It was a man, worthy of respect; in World War I, he was captured by the Russians and subsequently escaped from prison. Soros's conclusion: “Obedience has become a dangerous addiction; to survive, need to bypass the law”. And he himself confesses, what does not accept the rules, superimposed by others. He was accused of going beyond fair play in trading and stocks, and currencies. Constrained by the communist regime, established after World War II, Soros in 1947 left for the UK, where he studied at the London School of Economics. After working for a while as a traveling salesman, he found a job at a financial institution. Although Soros gained some arbitration experience, he mostly did boring office work, did not shine and, with the blessing of the company, Left. New York became his target, but he couldn't get a work visa, because I was too young, to be a specialist in any field. This was a requirement to enter the United States.. Therefore he “bypassed” the law and got myself an official certificate, which asserted, that arbitration experts should be young, because they die young; and the government let him in.

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