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Funds for qualified investors
Řeháčková, Hana ; Kotáb, Petr (advisor) ; Dřevínek, Karel (referee)
Funds of qualified investors Recent events in the financial world emphasize the need to understand institutions and instruments of capital market. From that reason I have chosen the area of funds of qualified investors. The aim of my thesis is to examine the treatment of funds of qualified investors, to characterize the main changes the funds have come through and to carry out a comparative analysis of similar funds which are intended for professional investors abroad and to focus on strict European legislation in this area which has an effect on the Czech funds of qualified investors and assess influence of the legislation on them. The thesis is structured into six chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the funds of qualified investors. The first chapter is introductory and introduces basic terminology of the subjects of collective investment; the chapter is divided into three subchapters. Subchapter one describes collective investment in the context of financial market, the second subchapter concerns the main principles of collective investment and in the third subchapter there are explained advantages and disadvantages of collective investment. The second chapter introduces the legislation of collective investment in the Czech Republic; it is also divided into three...
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Modes of the legal regulation of hedge funds
Eisenreich, Jan ; Kotáb, Petr (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Modes of the legal regulation of hedge funds This thesis focuses on hedge funds, their history, main strategies, role on the financial market and regulation. It compares approach to regulation of those entities in the US, European Union (and its certain member states) and in significant offshore jurisdictions. Its major focus is on the financial crisis from the year 2008 and its impacts on hedge funds. Its goal is to find whether the regulation of hedge funds can be beneficiary and what approach should the regulator take. It discusses the effects of the Dodd-Frank act, UCITS IV and AIFMD and compares those legislative documents. It consists of four chapters. In first chapter it tries to define the term hedge fund. Second chapter briefly explains history of hedge funds and historical approach to their regulation in the US. Third chapter discusses various strategies used by hedge funds and their outcomes. Legislative approach in various countries is being investigated in part four of this thesis. It compares regulation on hedge funds in the US, European Union, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and Singapore. It tries to predict what is going to happen with the hedge fund market after implementation of the EU Directive AIFM in the years 2013 to 2018 and it also tries to find the possible...
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Investing of hedge funds using price volatility of investment instruments
Přibáň, Filip ; Brada, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kováč, Michal (referee)
Volatility of value of assets and revenues is one of the most important factors, which influence current financial markets. Its increase in recent decades is a big risk for financial markets and real economy. But volatility is not just a thread, it is also an opportunity to make profits. It makes sense, that financial instruments that make profits from increase or decrease of volatility on financial markets are very popular nowadays. Because of this in last years investment banks issued a lot of derivatives that make profits from significant changes of value of assets and revenues. Hedge funds want to make profits from volatility as well so they offer their clients funds with sofisticated strategies and different investment attitudes. These strategies and economical models that analyze volatility are very important for us to understand how this phenomenon works. This is not crucial only for traders or portfolio managers, but for macroeconomists as well. Significant movements on currency, stock or bond markets can influence real economy rapidly.
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Hedge Funds Analysis Focused on Legal Regulation
Dirhan, Martin ; Srch, David (referee) ; Sojka, Zdeněk (advisor)
This Thesis aims at hedge funds analysis focused on legal regulation. Hedge funds are not very well-known in our country, they represent a specific kind of investment funds. A term which describes these funds most closely within our legal environment is "Funds of qalified investors". The first part of this Thesis is focused predominantely on general descsription of hedge funds, their histroy and specific features. The second part of the Thesis deals with strategy, legislation and some other aspects of hedge funds.
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Hedge Funds and Their Impact on Financial Markets
Jeřábek, Tomáš ; Musílek, Petr (advisor) ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (referee) ; Čihák, Petr (referee)
The aim of this PhD thesis is to analyze the history and current situation of hedge funds and assess their potential to destabilize financial markets. The findings of the analysis are used to validate the assumptions underlying the major regulatory changes of hedge funds in the key global economic centres after the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. Since their inception early last century hedge funds have gone through a period of great expansion in the sixties, followed by a decline due to large losses sustained in the early seventies. The nineties meant a real breakthrough for hedge funds as a result of which they became prominent players in the alternative investment space. As of today, there is over ten thousand hedge funds that globally manage close to 3 trillion US dollars. Compared to mutual funds and other financial institutions the volume of assets under management is still relatively small, the rate of growth over the past fifteen years has however been very significant. What is emphasized with respect to the impact of hedge funds on financial markets is the contribution to increasing the liquidity and efficiency and their role on the financial derivatives market where hedge funds are actively involved in the transfer of risk. They are at the same time subject of criticism for their purported destabilizing effect on financial markets and contribution to fluctuations in the prices of investment instruments. Although the share of hedge funds in triggering major financial crises has not been conclusively established, these investment entities were one of the targets of the wide-ranging regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. The dissertation first discusses the history and current situation of hedge funds and defines the term hedge fund. The following section describes the basic characteristics and principles of their functioning and reviews the regulation in the major domiciles. The final chapter is focused on the empirical analysis of the impact of hedge funds on financial markets. The inputs for this analysis include a global hedge fund index and representative market indices and data from the CFTC on positions in the 10 year US government treasury note futures. In the first step the descriptive statistics for the transformed time series are presented. The second part of the analysis focuses on lagged correlations between returns and volatility of the global hedge fund index and representative market indices. Granger causality tests are applied in the following section to determine the relationships between the returns and volatility of hedge fund and representative market indices. In the final step of the analysis Granger causality tests are used to analyze the link between the changes in positions in the 10-year US treasury note futures held by hedge funds and the change in settlement prices of these futures with the aim to assess whether hedge funds have the capacity to move the market. In conclusion, the results of this analysis are discussed in light of the recent regulatory changes and the potential for the future growth of hedge funds is assessed.
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Analysis of bad debts in the reporting entity
KOPFOVÁ, Jiřina
The main aim of this graduation theses was to characterize the bad debt and is then analyzed in the reporting entity. The most important part of this graduation theses is aplication of lawful rectifying item and amortization of debts in practice and after that resulting effect on tax base and income range. After a complete analysis and mapping of debts can be stated that the company has an overview of overdue debts, records all borrowers and applied hedge funds. Also accounting entity should not fear to make up rectifying items to overdue debts because if they will be in step with law No. 593/1992 Sb. about backlog for finding the base of income tax it can have the only the positive impact for the base tax and high of tax as well.
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Hedge funds, regulation and financial crisis
Kočan, Michal ; Havlíček, David (advisor) ; Málek, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe hedge funds, regulation and changes in it and especially about the situation of financial crisis. Introduction of the work deals with the general characteristics of this type of funds, their historical development, successes, and failures. Furthermore, the comparison report describes the differences from the more common investment funds and outlines some strategies used in these funds. I compare their efficiency to global stock index. An important part of the thesis is the regulation of the fund the ongoing changes in the regulation because of the financial crisis. At the end of the thesis, is a subjective evaluation of the impact of regulation and the financial crisis on the industry of the hedge funds. A practical part analyzes the relationship of hedge funds and the public in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where the results show little awareness and knowledge of hedge funds.
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Investment strategies of hedge funds
Zavadil, David ; Musílek, Petr (advisor) ; Stádník, Bohumil (referee)
The thesis is focused on hedge funds, their definition and historical development. Four investment strategies are further discussed (Global macro, Distressed securities, M&A, Convertible arbitrage) and their performance is displayed during the last thirteen years. We can compare performance of individual investment strategies with global equity index and high-yield bond index, as the alternative for potential investor.
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An Analysis of Hedge Fund Strategies
Deckert, Gabriel ; Ježek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mládek, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with hedge funds' strategies' analysis. First part is about an introduction into collective investment schemes, shares funds and investment funds. The reader can find the pros and cons of collective investment schemes in the next part. The second section focuses on investment approaches of four hedge fund strategies: global macro, directional, event-driven and relative value, whereby the strategies' classification corresponds with the most common databases of financial providers. They are divided into subcategories and each strategy is characterized by its principle. Special attention is paid to a specific kind of a hedge fund, the so called Fund of Funds. The strategies' rates of return in different market conditions are compared in the conclusion.
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Development of the hedge funds and their regulation in the EU
Trnovec, Martin ; Havlíček, David (advisor)
This bachalor thesis is focus on the genesis of the hedge funds and its regulation within EU. In the first part, the hedge funds industry, its development and current trends are described. In the next section the reasons which led to an effort to increase the regulation of the hedge funds, which in the EU resulted into adoption of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) are discussed. In the practical part, the directive is analyzed together with the view to its possible impact on the hedge funds industry.
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