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How do you run a hedge fund? U.S. colleges are showing how
IHT ^
| 12/25/08
| Stephanie Strom
Posted on 12/25/2008 4:09:14 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
How do you run a hedge fund? U.S. colleges are showing how
By Stephanie Strom
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Jaison Ipe was about two minutes into his introduction of Silk LLC, a mock hedge fund, when the questions started flying.
Why was the fund focusing only on biotechnology and not specialty pharmaceuticals? What was behind its name? Who were the scientists the fund planned to work with?
Ipe, a second-year student at the Yale School of Management, gamely gave answers, but the panel of bona fide hedge fund insiders gathered to judge his team's presentation kept peppering them with questions.
"Twenty minutes went by in what felt like 45 seconds," said Michael Shay, who led the Silk team.
The exercise was an unusual example of increasing efforts by business schools to educate students in the skills and knowledge most relevant to running hedge funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: businessschool; hedgefund
Isn't this rather behind the curve? Or this may be make-job programs for laid-off hedge-funders or faculty members with hedge fund specialty at colleges.:-)
To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; bamahead; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; ...
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posted on
12/25/2008 4:09:47 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A question in today's economic climate:
How does the fund plan to pay off one investor with the money from another investor?
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posted on
12/25/2008 4:13:58 AM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: TigerLikesRooster

Teach our children well.
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posted on
12/25/2008 4:24:05 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Jaison Ipe was about two minutes into his introduction of Silk LLC, a mock hedge fund... Silk LLC? A better name for a mock hedge fund would be Fleece LLC. It's more realistic.
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posted on
12/25/2008 4:48:50 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Much simpler to attend a bookies joint in Vegas. You take the money, you lay the bet, you take your twenty five percent off of the top.
Bookies never lose only the ringers!!!
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posted on
12/25/2008 6:07:40 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: org.whodat
Forgot to add, this great gaming device was brought to you by newt and the boys.
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posted on
12/25/2008 6:08:52 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: org.whodat
ssshhhh! That is supposed to be a secret!
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posted on
12/25/2008 6:12:57 AM PST
by
Founding Father
(The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Required course supplies: smoke and mirrors.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Isn't this rather behind the curve? Or this may be make-job programs for laid-off hedge-funders or faculty members with hedge fund specialty at colleges.:-)
The hedge fund boom is over. This is probably to keep faculty employed and not layer off. Teach a sexy subject like how to run a hedge fund LOL
If you want to learn the hedge fund ropes move to Greenwich Connecticut and start at the bottom at the Dunking Donuts. Heck some layed off hedgers are making the sugar glazed
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posted on
12/25/2008 6:50:59 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Only when the tide goes out, can you see whoÂ’s been swimming naked -- Warren Buffet)
To: org.whodat
Meyer Lansky always said “I’m not a gambler. I own the gambling tables”
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posted on
12/25/2008 6:52:30 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Only when the tide goes out, can you see whoÂ’s been swimming naked -- Warren Buffet)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Actually, it sounds like a good course. If you read the article, the course is about the management and administration of hedgefunds.
To: AndyJackson
If you read the article, the course is about the management and administration of hedgefunds.Correct and I provided the clif's notes!!!
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posted on
12/25/2008 8:00:59 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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