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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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The funds are single-strategy hedge funds and were tied to some of the hardest-hit strategies for hedge fund investing this year, including convertible ...
The House Financial Services Committee is expected to re-consider legislation that would require hedge fund managers to register with the Securities and ...
hedge fund Research's HFRX global hedge fund Index shed another 3.04% last month. While that'sa marked improvement from October, when the same index ...

hedge funds as a whole have posted their worst record to date this year. According to data by Chicago-based hedge fund Research, hedge funds have lost an ...
Net) - Those who push for greater transparency of the hedge fund industry had a victory this week, when an EU official all but declared that funds in the ...
hedge fund managers, however, may find it difficult to resist: "If there is sufficient pressure for fees to come down, they will do," he said. ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - hedge funds in the European Union will be regulated following a public consultation that is currently underway, a senior EU official ...
hedge fund investors around the world lost money for the sixth straight month as many in the industry reported steepening declines, investors said on ...
Many hedge funds were charging high fees but not hedging out risk said Sun, who runs the $132 million Real Return Asian hedge fund and the $543 million ...
The gain compares with an average 22 percent drop by global hedge funds, the biggest on record since Chicago-based hedge fund Research Inc. began keeping ...
The need to slam the gates on investors highlights a big flaw in the hedge fund model. If funds make illiquid, long-term bets, it is risky to offer ...
... it sheds on the downside protection that hedge funds were supposed to provide. Harvard's endowment was run in many ways like a hedge fund, after all. ...
It's hardly surprising that hedge funds are in layoff mode. Headhunters say it's unclear how deeply hedge funds will cut, and many of the layoffs have been ...
The commodities market has proven unfriendly to many hedge funds this year, including the Athamas Capital SICAV-SIF, SCA hedge fund. ...
... at year end" in our liquid hedge funds. Many other hedge fund managers have recently blocked redemptions to prevent a forced fire sale of their assets, ...
This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the ...
According to hedge fund Research, macro funds have returned 3.57 percent year to date. Only hedge funds specialising in short selling have returned more ...
... investors withdrew $40 billion from hedge funds in October, leaving $1.56 trillion in assets under management, Chicago-based tracking firm hedge fund ...
BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - hedge funds in the European Union will be regulated following a public consultation that is currently underway, ...
... according to Chicago-based hedge fund Research Inc. The longer lockup periods are aimed at giving hedge funds managers some respite from pressure to ...
... banking and hedge fund industries worldwide. Hedge Fund Jobs Digest is a research service that maintains a database of jobs in hedge funds worldwide.
... as its primary liaison with hedge fund firms on the East Coast. The Chicago-based derivatives exchange named Mark Thompson as Director, hedge funds. ...
While hedge fund redemption requests have been strong in the US, the next wave of redemption requests may come from Asia, where many hedge funds have ...
Plaintiffs, including the hedge funds Greenwich Financial Services and QED LLC, are represented by David Grais, J. Bruce Boisture, and Owen Cyrulnik of ...
London (Reuters) - global hedge fund industry assets fell by $170 billion (114 billion pounds) in the third quarter as negative returns of more than 10 ...
This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the preface to the ...
Speaking at the hedge funds World conference in Zurich, Clarke also said leverage across the hedge fund industry is now at around a third of leverage levels ...
The benefits of this approach include significantly lower costs compared to traditional hedge funds, greater transparency, and the avoidance of manager- and ...
The hedge-fund industry may shrink as much as 45 percent by the end of this month to $1.1 trillion from its peak of $1.9 trillion in June because of ...
hedge funds are private, largely unregulated pools of capital whose managers can buy or sell any assets, bet on falling as well as rising asset prices and ...
... they include about 150 British and Dutch Municipalities, the German banks that were Iceland's biggest lenders, and hedge funds from Manhattan and Milan ...
... which invests $9 billion in hedge funds, said on Tuesday it is integrating a smaller hedge fund investment group to expand its reach in Asian markets. ...
... most profitable, hedge funds for the first nine months of 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, other hedge fund research firms and investors. ...
"Managing a hedge fund means reserving the right to change your mind all the time." The biggest risk to the investment is inflation, which Hendry said ...
By AOIFE WHITE AP BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union will this week take the first step toward new rules governing high-risk hedge funds, ...
... Jr. as Director, hedge funds. Thompson, 37, will be responsible for serving as the company's primary liaison to the East Coast hedge fund community and ...
Just days before announcing that it would liquidate a fixed-income hedge fund, Parkcentral Capital Management defaulted on a margin call, according to a ...
A British hedge fund is suing The Wall Street Journal for publishing Articles detailing its disastrous performance this year. ...

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