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A hedge fund is a private investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other Investment Funds and which pays a performance fee to its investment manager. Although each fund will have its own strategy which determines the type of investments and the methods of investment it undertakes, hedge funds as a class invest in a broad range of investments, from shares, debt and commodities to works of art.


As the name implies, hedge funds often seek to offset potential losses in the principal markets they invest in by hedging their investments using a variety of methods, most notably short selling. However, the term "hedge fund" has come to be applied to many funds that do not actually hedge their investments, and in particular to funds using short selling and other "hedging" methods to increase rather than reduce risk, with the expectation of increasing return.


hedge funds are typically open only to a limited range of professional or wealthy investors. This provides them with an exemption in many jurisdictions from regulations governing short selling, derivative contracts, leverage, fee structures and the liquidity of investments in the fund. A hedge fund will nevertheless voluntarily limit the scope of its activities via its contractual arrangements with its investors, in order to give the investors some certainty over what they are investing into.


The assets under management of a hedge fund can run into many billions of dollars, and this will usually be multiplied by leverage, meaning that their influence over markets is substantial. hedge funds dominate certain specialty markets such as trading within derivatives with high-yield ratings and distressed debt.


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Sat. November 07, 2009

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The Alternative investment management Association (AIMA) â€Â" the global hedge fund
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a federal judge to find an Oklahoma hedge fund

The fund had approached other global hedge funds
The pension fund recently closed a $50 million investment in Diamondback Capital and has several more hedge fund
Of course, the chancellor would never concede that he's become a hedge-fund
Regulators are going after the wrong target by trying to impose stricter rules on hedge funds
TCI's financial year only partly coincided with what was a difficult 2008 for hedge funds
A key complaint of investors has been that while many of them lost money during the financial crisis, hedge fund
The book, The Greatest Trade Ever, written by Wall Street Journal writer Gregory Zuckerman, due to hit bookshelves tomorrow, details the story of hedge fund
private equity and hedge fund administrator Bank of New York Mellon was selected last week to provide global hedge fund custody services ...
Jeff Everett, who was president of Nassau-based Templeton global advisors Ltd. from 2000 to 2007, is now running the type of hedge fund his bosses at ...
London, 26 October, 2009 - hedge funds Care, the alliance of hedge fund industry professionals committed to protecting children from abuse and neglect, ...
When it comes to white-collar defendants, hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam is right now at the crest of the news cycle. ...
The fund represents the first foray into credit for Matrix, which manages about $4 billion and already boasts a trio of equity hedge funds. ...
It doesn't help Petters' case that Gregory Bell, a former Chicago-area hedge fund manager, has admitted to covering for the defendant by falsely claiming to ...
hedge funds are getting out of equities, edging back from gold, and and aggressively upping their bets on Dr. Copper, according to Bank of America analsyt ...
At any time, investors can see exactly what's in their accounts, a far cry from hedge fund managers who keep their portfolios secret. ...
Greg Quental testified as a government witness against Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who are accused of lying to investors before their hedge funds ...
... at the hedge fund of funds firm which invests roughly $3.6 billion (2.2 billion pounds) for endowments and wealthy investors with hedge funds. ...
WASHINGTON (marketwatch) - Hedge-fund managers and private-equity managers would be given a one-year transitional period before being required to register ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch)-- SEC chief Mary Schapiro on Tuesday gave her support to an Obama administration proposal to require hedge funds to register with her ...
Hedge fund managers looking to run a thriving business amid tightening regulations will need to observe four cardinal rules to gain investor confidence, ...
Overall, hedge funds have not yet hit the highs of October 2007. The Morningstar 1000 hedge fund index went down 25.2 per cent through February and has ...
The subpoena seeks trading records from Richard Grodin, a former SAC hedge fund manager who employed a cooperating witness in the insider trading case ...
Nineteen months after Bear Stearns collapsed, one of its former hedge funds, New Castle Funds, is at the center of a huge insider trading case that has ...
... talented risk-takers into the hedge fund industry. "That would push risk-takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds, ...
My coverage of Raj Rajaratnam, the Wall Street hedge fund manager accused of orchestrating a sophisticated insider trading ring with tipsters at firms such ...
According to hedge fund magazine HFM Week, sovereign wealth funds from Palestine, Vietnam and Nigeria are poised to follow larger peers, like China, ...
Siebert, the first woman to join the NYSE and chief executive of her own brokerage, says hedge funds are at the heart of the financial industry's problems. ...
A powerful House of Lords sub-committee will this week hear criticism of the EU's draft directive on the regulation of hedge funds and private equity as it ...
hedge funds and the managers who run them have been getting a lot of publicity lately - and not of the flattering kind. We have massive Ponzi schemes, ...
hedge funds HAVE TRAILED THE stock market this year, as the latest data from Morningstar make clear. The Morningstar 1000 hedge fund Index ...
BALACLAVA (MAURITIUS): Life could become tougher for hedge funds and private equity firms, with the European Union and US policy makers considering stricter ...
as the infamous John Meriwether, after driving his 2nd hedge fund into the ground early last year, [Mar 28, 2008: Founder of Long Term Capital Failing ...


 


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