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hedge funds
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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Institutional Investor
April 13, 2018
Hugh Hendry is a rare breed: a retired hedge fund manager who has actually retired. Lately, the former manager of the Eclectica Fund, a London-based global macro outfit he ran for 15 years until shuttering it last year, spends his days unsubscribing from finance-related emails and paddle boarding nearÃâà...
Haaretz
April 13, 2018
British hedge fund firm Brevan Howard Investment Management has shut its office in Israel, in a move which sources said was aimed at cutting costs ... A March 28 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said London and Jersey-based Brevan Howard, one of the biggest hedge funds inÃâà...
Barron's
April 12, 2018
Hedge funds saw obvious parallels to the subprime bets and ABX shorts that generated billions in profits and minted reputations in the 2008 financial crisis, and jumped in. The thesis is so intuitive that it has become wrong, the hedge fund Metacapital Management now contends. After their analysts visitedÃâà...
Institutional Investor
March 9, 2018
Silver 8 Capital managed the highest-returning hedge fund last year, producing huge gains with a multi-style investment strategy in the financial technology sector, according to Preqin. The Silver 8 Partners fund returned 770.74 percent, a Preqin report Thursday shows. The financial data provider said theÃâà...
Opalesque
March 9, 2018
Opalesque Industry Update - Drawing on data compiled for the 2018 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, Preqin has created league tables of the most consistent performing hedge funds. These league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these funds, but rather to illustrate those that have performed theÃâà...
FINalternatives
March 9, 2018
Established in 1992, HFR specializes in the areas of indexation and analysis of hedge funds. It's HFR Database, the most comprehensive resource available for hedge fund investors, includes fund-level detail on historical performance and assets, as well as firm characteristics on both the broadest andÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 9, 2018
Crypto investment fund Multicoin Capital has announced that investors including Marc Andreessen are taking part in its flagship fund. When launched in October 2017, the firm announced plans to raise as much as $100 million by the end of the first quarter of 2018. The funding target has now been raisedÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 7, 2018
According to Goldman Sachs, hedge funds in aggregate have sharply added to their positions in health-care stocks thus far this year. Based on late February data, hedge funds are overweight on the sector by 3.54 percentage points, compared with the sector's weight in the small-cap Russell 2000 RUT,Ãâà...
ValueWalk
March 2, 2018
Which is something. Hedge funds care a lot if you make money. Because if you make money, they make money. Everyone's interests are aligned! Of course, there has been a lot of fee compression in the hedge fund business—that's capitalism. But the business model is such that if you can raise money andÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 2, 2018
Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge-fund icon, said investors should steer clear of bonds as he considers government paper “overvalued and overowned” and primed for a tumble. That's a scenario that would drive yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, sharply higher. Jones is predicting the yield forÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 1, 2018
The most concentrated hedge fund stocks have lagged the S&P 500 year-to-date following unusually weak returns in 2017. Hedge funds started 2018 ... Equity hedge funds generated returns of 2% year-to-date which is at par with the market index despite the volatile first two months of 2018. This strongÃâà...
CNBC
March 1, 2018
Demand for this product has already brought Genesis Capital some noteworthy clients in the cryptocurency world, including Andreessen Horowitz-backed digital currency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. "Genesis Capital is providing a valuable service to cryptomarkets via their lending business byÃâà...
Barron's
February 28, 2018
Last year, 71% of active fund managers beat their benchmarks. “That [outperformance] should be a good proxy for how market-neutral and long-short [hedge fund] managers should do going forward,” Moriarity told us. Another reason you might take a look at hedge funds: While they're still expensive, pricesÃâà...
CNBC
February 28, 2018
I think all of those provide valuable diversification and can generate returns even after you've paid the hedge fund fees," he told CNBC's "The Rundown." Still, Steinbrugge made the case that the pick-up in volatility earlier this month during the stock markets sell-off was good for hedge funds. Volatility isÃâà...
CNBC
February 27, 2018
Hedge funds pulled in more than $14 billion from investors in January, already half the amount the industry raised during all of 2017, according to data by eVestment. This marked the best start to the year since before the financial crisis and the first January of inflows since 2014, the data showed. It's a starkÃâà...
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