Introduction to Hedge Funds

Hedge funds are a fast growing and important part of our client base. Do you know what factors distinguish hedge funds? Do you understand the different investment strategies? What should you know in order to provide a better service to hedge funds? This course will explain what hedge funds are, the different types of funds, who invests in them and why. The various hedge fund s will be covered with case studies and exercises. The key legal, tax, regulatory and accounting issues affecting hedge funds will also be covered.

Inside a Hedge Fund

This course spends a half day inside a hedge fund (Diamond LP-fictitious name but based on a real fund) looking back on the business’s formation, growth and set backs. Focus will be on key issues such as finding and using Prime broker(s), investors, attracting and keeping Fund of Fund managers and looking at the fund’s strategy (Equity Long/short) and some example trades. We end with a look at the future prospects for Diamond LP.

Better Decision Making in Volatile Markets

This is a very specific and enlightening course which will investigate the following areas:

The Business Board Game - Entrepreneur

360 Consulting and Inspirational Finance are working together to showcase a product called the Business Board Game - Entrepreneur.  The Business Board Game encourages the application of financial, analytical and decision making skills and allows delegates to manage a company in a highly competitive environment. 

The BBG is hands on, enjoyable and competitive, you will be surprised at how much can actually be accomplished using this simple concept  and we can guarantee that the level of commercial and financial awareness skills your employees currently have will be enhanced over a very short period of time.

The Business Board Game creates an environment where the participants work together in teams – each team is then required to form their own “company”.   The teams need to analyse markets, determine a coherent strategy and develop sales, purchasing and production plans and finally win the contracts to put these into place.  They then implement these plans in direct competition with other teams.

As each “company” makes decisions, just as you would in the real world, market forces take shape, forcing each team to make competitive, strategic, financial, operational, marketing, production and sales decisions.

Cash flow, P&L, balance sheets, bidding for contracts, loans, credit management, these are a few of the real life elements the game has.  In order to gain understanding of working capital cycles every decision made by the team has its own outcome due to the fore thought (or lack of it) and how this affects the business.

Be it as an introduction to business, a finance-for-non-finance professionals instrument, a dynamic and comprehensive team building exercise or simply as a tool for increasing commercial awareness the business board game is a complete package for business development and has certainly proven to be one training programme that  cannot be simply defined as ‘just a game’.