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What are Hedge Funds?
Hedge funds are investment funds open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of investments, risks and trading activities than the usual investment funds.
Hedge funds often seek to hedge some of the risks inherent in their investments using a variety of methods, most notably short selling and derivatives. However, the term "hedge fund" has also come to be applied to certain funds that do not 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 the return on their investment.
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, derivatives, leverage, fee structures and the liquidity of interests in the fund.
What is Hedge?
Hedge funds are investment funds open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of investments, risks and trading activities than the usual investment funds.
Hedge funds often seek to hedge some of the risks inherent in their investments using a variety of methods, most notably short selling and derivatives. However, the term "hedge fund" has also come to be applied to certain funds that do not 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 the return on their investment.
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, derivatives, leverage, fee structures and the liquidity of interests in the fund.
What is Hedge?