Investment Strategies
At Martlet Fund McGill, students engage with three core investment strategies. These themes mirror real hedge fund approaches and give participants hands-on experience building portfolios, developing trade ideas, and defending theses in live reviews.
Event Driven
Our Event-Driven investing focuses on market opportunities created by corporate actions, industry shifts and geofinancial movements. The key is that these events often cause temporary mispricings or volatility in a company’s stock price.
This theme gives students a window into how news, timing, and deal mechanics can directly impact markets, and how professionals take advantage of short-term opportunities.
Quantitative
Trading
Our Quant strategy leverages data-driven models to identify patterns and inefficiencies in financial markets. This strategy is less about forecasting market direction and more about applying rigorous statistical methods and systematic logic.
By exploring quantitative approaches, students gain insight into how data informs investment decisions, how predictive signals are extracted, and how sophisticated investors build and refine models that can adapt to changing market dynamics.
Long / Short
Equity
Long/Short Equity investing is one of the most widely used hedge fund strategies. This strategy encourages deep fundamental analysis, relative valuation, and a strong grasp of industry dynamics.
Understanding Long/Short Equities helps students learn to think like investors, not just about what’s worth buying, but also what’s worth avoiding or betting against.
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