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- About Hedge Funds
- A hedge fund is a fund that can take both long and short positions, use arbitrage, buy and sell undervalued securities, trade options or bonds, and invest in almost any opportunity in any market where it foresees impressive gains at reduced risk. The primary aim of most hedge funds is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Taking the Mystery Out of Hedge Funds
- 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...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Reducing Market Risk With Merger Arbitrage
- After a company announces intent to acquire another, the price of the target company's stock predictably goes up, although usually not to the full offering price. Instead, because of the risk of the deal not closing on time or at all, the target company's stock will sell at a discount...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Distressed Securities Investing
- A company teetering on bankruptcy does not sound like a great investment opportunity, but in many instances it can be -- for those who understand distressed securities investing. Distressed securities are stocks, bonds, and trade or financial claims of companies in, or about to enter or exit, bankruptcy or financial...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Private-to-Public Investing
- A general rule in investing is that the earlier in the life of a company you invest, the greater the potential reward. Venture capitalists investing in embryonic companies receive far more equity for the cost than those who invest later on at the initial public offering stage IPO. In return...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Global Macro Investing
- The conventional approach to buying stocks and bonds is to study companies and industries and base investment decisions on fundamentals such as quality of management, strategy, competition, market share, company profits, and P/E ratios. A less conventional and more challenging approach is to make investments based not on these "micro...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Market Neutral Long/Short Equity Trading
- Managers of market-neutral long/short equity hedge funds make scores of investments like this, picking stocks they believe are sufficiently balanced to keep the portfolio buffered from a severe market swing. Typically, they make sure the baskets of long and short investments are beta neutral. Beta is the measurement of a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Hedge Funds Prove Popular With the French and Swiss
- This paper highlights that French and Swiss institutions are the leading hedge fund investors in Europe, according to a survey carried out by UK-based Fulcrum Research for Ludgate Communications, a specialist financial public relations group. The most popular hedge fund strategies proved to be long/short, market neutral and fund of...
- White papers 2000-03-13
- Hedge Funds: Protection Against An Aging Bull
- This article highlights the study conducted by Van Hedge Fund Advisors, Inc., assisted by the faculty of Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, thereby stating that most mutual funds, the darlings of the investment world, cannot take short positions or use put options. "Hedge" funds, on the other hand,...
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