| Abstract [eng] |
Hedge funds are growing impressively and have bigger and bigger share on capital markets. They are unregulated and can freely use various risky investment strategies. That is why it is important to analyze their impact on financial markets. The subject of research is hedge funds, the objective of the work – to analyze how the hedge funds may influence financial markets and assess the hedge funds influence on USA, developed and emerging equity markets. In order to achieve this goal, are set these basics tasks: to analyze investment strategies, to study hedge funds performance in years 1949-2010, to analyze the relationship between different hedge funds investment strategies returns and USA, developed and emerging equity market returns. Different authors suggest different hedge funds strategies classification. In this paper is given classification done under three authors. There are three main groups of strategies: directional, market neutral, event driven. Hedge funds investment strategies demand active operation and use high leverage. Hedge funds strategies, used over time, had depended on economy environment. There were ups and downs in hedge funds industry form 1949 then the first hedge fund was established till nowadays. Hedge funds’ influence on financial markets is constantly growing. The results of the research confirm the hypothesis – hedge funds returns and market returns are correlative. Because of this, the conclusion is made, that hedge funds activity makes significant impact on financial markets. The paper consists of three parts. The size of this paper is 61 pages. There are 7 tables and 19 pictures in this paper. 63 sources of literary are used. |
