Please Help!What are the financial analysis realized in running hedge funds:-Basic Analysis/Research-In depth quant Analysis-Exceptional, Value Adding Analysis (Please use your fantasy...)

I would offer help, but im affraid i dont exactly understand what you want to know.

QuoteOriginally posted by: gomanPlease Help!-Exceptional, Value Adding Analysis (Please use your fantasy...)I'm not sure the forum is ready for me to use my fantasy. Anyway if you are talking about the analysis that is done by a hedge fund in the course of day to day operation, the answer, like anything else related to hedge funds depends on their strategy. http://www.profutures.com/article.php/182/Is just a basic basic overview of the styles of hedge fund, it is neither exhaustive or deep. But it may give you something to ask a more pointed question on.

What kind of research/analysis quants or financial analysts realize for hedge funds? All kinds from the basic (e.g. balance sheet ratio analysis) to the most complex....

Goma there is a software database called "pertrac" in their web site you can download a couple of examples of the kind of reports they produce. This will give you a rasonalble idea about what a FoHF looks at. Nevertheless you should be aware that different kind of investors looks at different things. You also should be aware that all alternative investments strategies, when inculded in a portfolio, are classified either as "return enhancers" or "diversifiers". While the analysis of the first group is basically bias towards risk-return, the second group focused much more in conditional correlations with traditional investments. Apart from that, the analysis is quite similar to that of mutual funds although a little bit more complex. There is also a non quantative analysis called "due dilligence" that consits in checking out basically operational, legal, firm and other risks. hope it helps,mencey

the way I understand goman, he is asking what types of analysis (fundamental, quantitytive etc) a hedgefund would perform.i am sure that for every "analysis" you can find a hedgefund doing/trying it.

Goman,Let me tell you a secret: HF have a facade, and a backyardthe facade is the "strategy" they explain in their pitches in order to pass risk managementthe backyard is a cowboy trader who follows his instinctas a friend trading in a HF recently told me: "yes, we like spreads because they look smart, but then we are really interested in one leg, so in the end we drop the other one and we trade directional"e.