To Find the Perception Towards Hedge Fund Strategies of Dealers in Surat City

Seema A. Suryawanshi; Rahulkumar S. Chhowala

Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2014

To Find the Perception Towards Hedge Fund Strategies of Dealers in Surat City

Seema A. Suryawanshi, Rahulkumar S. Chhowala

Abstract :

A hedge fund is a fund that undertakes a wider range of investment and trading activities there is wide range of investment strategies employed in such funds. , but which is generally open for the investors specified by the regulators There is often the use of the multi strategy for the hedge fund where by the fund manager can change the investment strategies base on market condition, allocation or appropriation of the capital and resources among the different strategies. It could be seen that establishment of the formal mechanism for the hedge fund strategy is bound by the underlying phenomena that these strategies are persistently changes and the hedge fund manager also change its strategies according to shift in the investment policy and market conditions. The Hedge fund strategies are driven by factors which changes with institutional profile and dealers accordingly need to study factors for appropriate hedge fund strategy to reap high benefits. The study shows that the dealer preference for factor driving hedge fund strategy selection is different for each strategy. The study shows that dealers give more importance to long/short hedge fund strategies and location based hedge fund strategies.dealers have given least importance tactical hedge fund strategies.The other strategies like tactical and eventdriven are risky which are taken with due support of management but if it successful ,gives better results too.