Look up: hedge-fund

1. Hedge fund
   A fund that may employ a variety of techniques to enhance returns, such as both buying and shorting stocks based on a valuation model.
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2. Hedge Fund
   A type of investment portfolio under which the fund manager is authorised to utilise a number of higher risk investment techniques, including using derivatives, short selling and borrowing funds to generate a higher return.
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3. Hedge fund
   Fund which seeks to generate investment returns by using investment strategies and tools such as short selling, leverage, program trading, swaps, arbitrage and derivatives. Returns tend to be unrelated to equity markets.
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4. hedge fund
   [n] - a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million)
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5. Hedge fund
   Hedge funds use a range of generally high risk investment strategies including arbitrage and short selling , they are frequently highly geared....more on Hedge fund
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6. hedge fund
   A type of investment fund that uses aggressive investment techniques and is exempt from many of the rules and regulations that govern other types of fund. Most hedge funds set high minimum investment amounts, so tend to be used by wealthy individuals and institutions
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7. hedge fund
   hedgefund noun a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging
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8. Hedge fund
   An investment vehicle that somewhat resembles a mutual fund, but with a number of important differences. If the fund is 'off-shore', the fund does not have to adhere to any SEC regulations (and can only sell to non-U.S. investors or investment vehicles). These funds employ a number of different strategies that are not usually found in mut...
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9. hedge fund
   (from the article `Economic Affairs`) ...in the hope that it would delay the inevitable rate increase, while news that would traditionally have been considered positive was shunned as ...
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10. Hedge Fund
    A fund used to enhance returns including the buying, selling, and shorting of stocks. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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11. Hedge fund
    A private investment partnership, owned by wealthy individuals and institutions, which is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds
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12. hedge fund
    A pooled investment vehicle that is privately organised and is administered by professional investment managers. It is different from another pooled investment fund, the mutual fund, in that access is available only to wealthy individuals and institutional managers. Moreover, hedge funds are able to...
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13. hedge fund
    Investment vehicles that invest in derivatives (options or futures) or utilize various forms of leverage to magnify gains (or losses) from the changing prices of primary financial instruments (such as equities or bonds or commodities). In the United States these funds are typically open only to high...
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14. hedge fund
    The term hedge fund is misleading, for such funds are not literally hedged. While there are many different kinds of hedge funds, operating in different capital markets, the general techniques they use are similar. Basically, they try to exploit temporary valuation differences between similar types o...
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15. hedge fund
    hedge fund, in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds “hedge” by offsetting “short” positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against “long” ...
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16. HEDGE FUND
    A high risk investment managed to obtain maximum returns.
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17. Hedge fund
    An organisation trading in volatile markets which will go either long or short according to its view of the market. Does not necessarily engage in hedging.
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18. Hedge fund
    A `hedge fund` is a private, aggressively managed investment fund that utilizes sophisticated strategies in both the international and domestic markets designed to offset losses during a market downturn and/or generate returns higher than traditional stock and bond investments.<ref name="CDB...
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