This course covers types of financial funds - such as open-ended, closed-end, mutual and hedge - clearly and concisely. In this free online hedge funds course, you can develop your understanding of financial funds and economics. Terms like ‘hedge funds’, ‘open-ended funds’, and ‘mutual funds’ are regularly employed by fund managers and the financial media but few people truly understand what they mean. This course will give you a better understanding of these terms and their role in economics in a few short hours.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201367 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Define acronyms related to financial funds • Explain how open-end and closed-end mutual funds operate • Outline the method to calculate the net asset value (NAV) per share • Describe how hedge funds operate and the role that the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) plays in hedge funds • Explain why there is an element of secrecy to do with hedge funds • Discuss the role of fund managers in different types of funds and the fees that they can earn in each • Explain the dangers when something is 'too big to fail' • Describe the differences between venture capital funds and private equity • Explain what it means to take a short or long position with a company on the market • Discuss what is involved with merger arbitrage • Outline the difficulties with using 'insider information' |
| Course Code | 1727 |
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