Hedge Funds case studies, worked step by step

Cases
100
Traced to a firm
31
Topics
13
Hard
30
Topic
All topicsCredit, distressed and capital structure7Earnings, models and KPIs8Event-driven and merger arbitrage7Fund economics, NAV and LP decisions8Global macro trades7Long pitches and valuation14Manager evaluation and attribution7Pairs and relative value5Portfolio construction and sizing7Risk limits and drawdowns7Short selling6Systematic research and data11Volatility, options and convertibles6
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  1. 081Tessaro Hospitals runs 3,000 beds at 62% occupancy and earns an average of Rs 50,000 per occupied bed-day. Your structured idea is that occupancy rises to 72% in two years as new wings mature, with 50% of incremental revenue flowing to EBITDA. Set out the thesis, the catalyst, the numbers and the main risk.Long pitches and valuationCorePoint72London · 2026
  2. 082An analyst at Tavish Capital made 40 trades: 18 winners averaging Rs 1.8 crore and 22 losers averaging Rs 1.0 crore. What is the hit rate, the expectancy per trade, and what would you tell the analyst?Manager evaluation and attributionWarm upFund of funds and allocatorsMulti-manager platforms
  3. 083You are long Rs 10 crore of Menvik Steel (beta 1.3) and short Rs 10 crore of Irvanta Steel (beta 0.9). The market falls 10% and both stocks move exactly with their betas. What is your P&L, and how should you have sized the short?Pairs and relative valueWarm upLong-short equity fundsMulti-manager platforms
  4. 084Tamsin Equity's book has a momentum factor exposure of 0.4. A momentum reversal of minus 15% hits the factor in a week. What does the book lose, and how would you hedge the exposure without selling your best ideas?Portfolio construction and sizingCoreMulti-manager platformsLong-short equity funds
  5. 085Pallav Multi-Strategy Fund can buy a put spread costing 1.5% of NAV a year that pays 12% of NAV if the market falls 25%. You think such a crash happens once in eight years. Is the hedge worth buying?Risk limits and drawdownsCoreMulti-manager platforms
  6. 086Quickrin Finance, an online lender, earns a 48% yield on a Rs 5,000 crore loan book, with funding costs of 12%, credit costs of 10% and operating costs of 14%. A proposed rule would cap lending rates at 36%. What happens to its pre-tax ROA, and how would you frame the short?Short sellingCoreLong-short equity funds
  7. 087Open-ended: would monsoon rainfall help predict quarterly sales for Bhumora Agro and four other farm-input makers? You have 15 years of district rainfall and quarterly sales. How would you build and test the signal, and how many independent observations do you really have?Systematic research and dataCoreQuant and systematic funds
  8. 088Talwin Vol Fund is long a variance swap struck at 20% volatility with a vega notional of Rs 1 crore. Realised volatility comes in at 30%. What does it make, and why is the payoff larger than on a volatility swap?Volatility, options and convertiblesCoreVolatility and relative value funds
  9. 089Durvel Steel cuts its guidance for EBITDA per tonne from Rs 12,000 to Rs 10,500 on volumes of 15 mt. The stock falls 8% on a market cap of Rs 40,000 crore. The sector trades at 6x EV/EBITDA. Was the fall an overreaction if the cut lasts one year, or if it is permanent?Earnings, models and KPIsHardLong-short equity fundsMulti-manager platforms
  10. 090Tolvan Cement bids for Ondari Cement at a fixed ratio of 0.8 Tolvan shares while Tolvan trades between Rs 450 and Rs 550, with the value fixed at Rs 360 or Rs 440 outside that range. Map Ondari's deal value against Tolvan's price and say how the hedge changes across the range.Event-driven and merger arbitrageCoreEvent-driven fundsMulti-manager platforms

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