What are hedge funds?

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What are hedge funds?

I was looking at the Forbes list of richest people. It classified some of them as rich from hedge funds. What are hedge funds? Does that have something to do with the stock market? Thanks so much!

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So Tech T has absolutely no clue what a hedge fund is, but he answers the question anyway. Why do people...

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What are some ethical/innovative/cool ways to market financial investment products? From mutual funds through independent financial advise to hedge funds and private equity deals and in between. It is not a drawback if you as the solicitor would also buy your own product.

Andreas Clenow's answer to Hedge Funds: As a fund manager, how to optimize for clients' minimum investment account sizes for your hedge fund? If not bound by US 'accredited investor' requirements. said: In most jurisdictions, you can only go after wealthy...

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I'm thinking Vanguard here ==> Low Costs  (Indexing) + Low Taxes + Basic, Solid products that people...

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What do MBAs do at hedge-funds?

I have read/heard that hedge-funds are one of the most sought after places for MBA grads or investment bankers (both of whom more or less have the same profile). However I have also heard that hedge-funds make money via trading, which would require either...

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I just read Stanford recent placement/employment statistics for 2015 batch, whose students are the most...

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What are the implications of the SAC insider trading case on the reputation of hedge funds?

It's common knowledge that hedge funds, with some exceptions, are not able to beat the market in recent years. Now, with the SAC insider trading scandal, how will this affect the hedge fund industry going forward? To critics, hedge funds are secretive...

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If this is just an isolated incident, as others in the past, then it is unlikely to have an impact on...

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What do you think of hedge funds?

The labor theory of value says that whatever time you put in directly correlates to worth. So any sort of profit comes about by paying a worker less than their work is worth - essentially exploiting the worker ("Ain't No Makin' It," Jay MacLeod...

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You may not wan't it but hedge want's it.

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What are the value propositions of Hedge Funds? Who is buying into them and why? How do they compare to what Modern Portfolio Theory, The Efficient Frontier, Low Cost Index Funds and the Permanent Portfolio has to offer?

Are Hedge Funds a hard or an easy sell? How they are sold? You can't see the prospectus online. I know something about Modern portfolio theory and the efficient frontier, Index funds and the Permanent Portfolio Investing Strategy. (See also: One Answer...

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Hedge funds, by nature, are to provide absolute returns. Whether the market is up or down, hedge funds...

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What are the leading hedge funds in London?

What kind of salary can one expect out of them for development and trading positions? Also, what is the general status of hedge funds operating out of London? I'd like to know anything you may know about hedge funds specific to London. I'm pretty clueless...

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/464649... What do you mean by "leading"? Size, performance, etc...

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What hedge funds / banks highly value their developers and treat them as rocks stars?

This is a follow up question to: What are the pros and cons of working at tech companies vs. hedge funds as a software engineer? Since most hedge funds and investment banks see the traders as being the most important employees, are there (and if so,...

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Its quite impossible for banks or hedge funds to treat generic developers as rock stars. Simply because...

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Actually, hedge funds - because of their privatization of ownership - are mostly exempt from the SEC...

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What's the difference between a hedge fund and other funds?

Is it correct, that the essential differences are that hedge funds can use many different derivatives and arbitrage strategies and mutual funds don't?? And of course that you have to invest much more in a hedge fund than with others - i know that.

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Ycarcofin is wrong and the other two answers above are correct. Hedge funds can be defined very broadly...

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