Taking the Mystery Out of Hedge Funds
- Topics:
- Commercial Lending
- Tags:
- Finance,
- Financial Services,
- Fund,
- Hedge Fund,
- Hedge Fund Strategy,
- Investment,
- Magnum Global Investments
- Source:
- Magnum Global Investments
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Overview: A hedge fund is a term commonly used to describe any fund that is not a conventional investment fund - that is, any fund using a strategy or set of strategies other than investing long in bonds, equities (mutual funds), and money markets (money market funds). Some funds that are called hedge funds do not actually hedge against risk. Because the term is applied to a wide range of alternative funds, it also encompasses funds that may use high-risk strategies without hedging against risk of loss. A fund of funds is a fund that mixes and matches the most successful hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles, spreading investments among many different funds or investment vehicles. Hedge fund strategies are complex and varied in their ranges of risk/return. Even within a particular style, no two managers are likely to be exactly the same. Equity markets, with the exception of Japan and emerging markets, have enjoyed an unprecedented boom for the last decade - in fact, the U.S. has enjoyed the longest bull market of this century.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
