Part I: Active investment -- Understanding hedge funds and other smart money -- Evaluating trading strategies: Performance measures -- Finding and backtesting strategies: Profiting in efficiently inefficient markets -- Portfolio construction and risk management -- Trading and financing a strategy: Market and funding liquidity -- Part II: Equity strategies -- Introduction to equity valuation and investing -- Discretionary equity investing -- Dedicated short bias -- Quantitative equity investing -- Part III: Asset allocation and macro strategies -- Introduction to asset allocation: The returns to the major asset classes -- Global macro investing -- Managed futures: Trend-following investing interview with David Harding of Winton capital management -- Part IV: Aritrage strategies -- Introduction to arbitrage pricing and trading -- Fixed-income arbitrage -- Convertible bond arbitrage -- Event-driven investments.