hedge fund
86
6.3
- noun
- /hɛdʒ fʌnd/
- Specialized
:
fondo de cobertura
- After reviewing several options, she decided to place her money in a reputable hedge fund.
- a hedge fund manager
- hedge fund assets
- a hedge fund adviser
I was running a hedge fund in San Francisco at the time.
- I was running a hedge fund in San Francisco at the time.
- Very big bank, Josh, A hedge fund, right, A mortgage hedge fund.
- Hindenburg Research is a short selling activist hedge fund headed up by Nate Anderson.
- OK, maybe they bought some options too, but it was the hedge fund that was doing the exotic thing.
- OK, Let's imagine that we have Bob and Carol in one hedge fund and Ted and Alice in another.
- Plus I'm making these contacts in Puerto Rico, some of them hedge fund managers.
- They Galling Group was a big technology focused hedge fund.
- With degrees from MIT and Harvard, he was busy working as a hedge fund analyst.
- Yeah, banking or hedge funds or crypto.
- Hedge funds, we're the largest allocator to hedge funds in the world.
- That's right, Hedge funds are that bearish right now.
- Do you think it's possible that these hedge funds are thinking the same way?
- As these hedge funds come in, then they drive adoption.
- You are playing into the hedge fund weenie baby playbook.
Examples
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Many wealthy investors choose to invest in a hedge fund for higher returns.
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As these hedge funds come in, then they drive adoption.
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Do you think it's possible that these hedge funds are thinking the same way?
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I was running a hedge fund in San Francisco at the time.
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I'm a market analyst for an LA based hedge fund.
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Most investors have their impressions of hedge funds formed by stories in the lay press.
Academic text (2015) -
In East Asia, governments still blame hedge funds for their supposed role in the 1997-98 financial crisis.
Academic text (2007) -
Hedge fund manager John Paulson made $12 billion betting against the mortgage market.
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His family owns a hedge fund worth 800 million and it's considering investing in Vance's expansion.
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The hedge fund employs a variety of strategies to minimize risk in volatile markets.
Synonyms
458
3.1
Money that many people put together to buy stocks or bonds
6
3.4
A pool of money many people manage together to buy stocks and bonds to make money
How Risky
- Specialized
32
4.6
- Specialized
86
6.3
- Specialized
82
3.5
50
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly analyzable: 'hedge' (offset risk) combined with 'fund' (pooled investment) suggests a fund related to hedging activities, so a learner who knows both words will get a basic sense. However, the full financial nuance — private vehicles for wealthy investors using complex or sometimes high-risk strategies rather than simply 'hedging' — is not fully predictable from the constituents, making the term only partially transparent.
Etymology
Hedge fund comes from the word hedge, a fence that protects a garden, and fund, a pool of money. Early funds tried to 'hedge', that is, to protect investors by making opposite bets, so the name stuck. Today hedge fund means a pool of money for wealthy investors that often uses risky ways to try to make high returns.