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	What is a Hedge Fund?
		"Hedge fund" is a general, non-legal term that was originally used to describe a type of private and unregistered investment pool that employed sophisticated hedging and arbitrage techniques to trade in the corporate equity markets.
		Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds in that they both are pooled investment vehicles that accept investors’ money and generally invest it on a collective basis.
		The hedge fund rule, effective February 2005, adopted the interpretation of “client” to mean shareholders, limited partners, members, or beneficiaries of the funds.
	www.uiowa.edu /ifdebook/faq/Hedge.shtml (1709 words)

	HedgeCo.Net \| Hedge Fund Database & Educational Resource \| What is a Hedge Fund?
		Hedge Fund assets are estimated to manage almost $3 trillion in assets, but because all hedge fund data is self-reported, the exact number is unknown.
		Hedge funds are usually structured as partnerships, with the general partner being the portfolio manager, making the investment decisions, and the limited partners as the investors.
		While hedge funds themselves are thought to be unregulated, hedge fund managers and traders are subject to the same market rules and regulations as any other trader.
	www.hedgeco.net /hedgeducation/hedge-fund-articles/what-is-a-hedge-fund (430 words)

	Investors add a bit of hedge fund to portfolio mix - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Funds that employ shorting strategies, for example, profit only when share prices are falling, increasing the risks of losses when the stock market is flying high, as it has been most of this year.
		Hedging strategies also employ more speculative tactics, such as leverage, and the use of options, futures and derivatives, which "may accelerate the velocity of possible losses," according to a risk disclosure by AIP Alternative Strategies Funds.
		That's when the popularity of hedge funds skyrocketed, due to their ability to post positive returns while the rest of the stock market was in free fall.
	www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/funds/2006-12-08-hedge-fund-strategy_x.htm (1919 words)

	Raising Assets - Hedge Fund World - Hedge Fund Investing
		Hedge fund managers establishing websites are advised to keep nominal information on the home page of a website, indicating the name of the hedge fund and requesting the viewer to provide their name and password to access additional information on any interior page.
		Hedge fund managers must be careful to disclose all material facts when presenting past performance to prevent unwarranted inferences and may distribute either actual performance results or model performance results to prospective investors.
		There is clear disclosure that the current hedge fund and the previous hedge fund are separate funds and that the past performance of the previous hedge fund is not indicative of the past or future performance of the current hedge fund.
	www.hedgefundworld.com /raising_assets.htm (1623 words)

	Hedging Your Bets: A Heads Up on Hedge Funds and Funds of Hedge Funds
		Hedge funds typically issue securities in “private offerings” that are not registered with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933.
		But hedge funds are subject to the same prohibitions against fraud as are other market participants, and their managers have the same fiduciary duties as other investment advisers.
		Funds of hedge funds and hedge funds may invest in highly illiquid securities that may be difficult to value.
	www.sec.gov /answers/hedge.htm (1119 words)

	A Brief History Of The Hedge Fund
		When a 1966 article in Fortune magazine highlighted an obscure investment that outperformed every mutual fund on the market by double-digit figures over the past year and by high double-digits over the last five years, the hedge fund industry was born.
		With a high-flying hedge fund once again capturing the public's attention with its stellar performance, investors flocked to an industry that now offered thousands of funds and an ever-increasing array of exotic strategies, including currency trading and derivatives such as futures and options.
		The development of the "fund of funds", which is simplistically defined as a mutual fund that invests in multiple hedge funds, provided greater diversification for investors' portfolios and reduced the minimum investment requirement to as low as $25,000.
	www.investopedia.com /articles/mutualfund/05/HedgeFundHist.asp (822 words)

	The Differences Between Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds
		Mutual funds and hedge funds differ in many ways, particularly the fees charged; leveraging, pricing, and liquidity practices employed; the degree of regulatory oversight to which each is subject; and the characteristics of the typical investors who use each investment vehicle.
		Hedge funds were originally designed to invest in equity securities and use leverage and short selling to "hedge" the portfolio's exposure to movements of the equity markets.
		Mutual funds are required to value their portfolios and price their securities daily based on market quotations that are readily available at market value and others at fair value, as determined in good faith by the board of directors.
	www.ici.org /funds/abt/faqs_hedge.html (859 words)

	hedge-fund - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Legally, hedge funds are most often set up as private investment partnerships that are open to a limited number of investors and require a very large initial minimum investment.
		Investments in hedge funds are illiquid as they often require investors keep their money in the fund for a minimum period of at least one year.
		The name is mostly historical, as the first hedge funds tried to hedge against the downside risk of a bear market with their ability to short the market (mutual funds generally can't enter into short positions as one of their primary goals).
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/hedge-fund (394 words)

	Hedge Fund
		Hedge funds are popularly perceived as small, secretive investment funds run by financial gurus who earn extraordinary returns managing money for the super rich.
		Hedge fund's charge investment fees that typically include a management fee, which is calculated as a fixed percentage of assets under management, and an incentive fee, which is calculated as a percentage of the fund's returns.
		Hedge funds are frenetic traders who generate brokerage commissions out of proportion to their assets under management.
	www.riskglossary.com /link/hedge_fund.htm (3485 words)

	About Hedge Funds - What is a Hedge Fund?
		A macro hedge fund is more volatile but potentially faster growing than a distressed-securities hedge fund that buys the equity or debt of companies about to enter or exit financial distress.
		Hedge funds utilize a variety of financial instruments to reduce risk, enhance returns and minimize the correlation with equity and bond markets.
		Performance of many hedge fund strategies, particularly relative value strategies, is not dependent on the direction of the bond or equity markets -- unlike conventional equity or mutual funds (unit trusts), which are generally 100% exposed to market risk.
	www.magnum.com /hedgefunds/abouthedgefunds.asp (2420 words)

	Home \| HedgeFundTools.com
		Hedge Fund Tools' mission is to provide you with a start up hedge fund process that is efficient, cost effective and comprehensive.
		Our team of highly experienced hedge fund experts has spent years working hand in hand with over 6500 new and existing hedge fund managers and over 25,000 hedge fund investors.
		Through prime brokerage introductions, we assemble the best team of professionals for your hedge fund, enabling you to market to a high net worth audience as well as to some of the largest institutions in the world.
	www.hedgefundtools.com (174 words)

	hedge fund Definition
		A fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, which is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including selling short, leverage, program trading, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives.
		Hedge funds are exempt from many of the rules and regulations governing other mutual funds, which allows them to accomplish aggressive investing goals.
		They are restricted by law to no more than 100 investors per fund, and as a result most hedge funds set extremely high minimum investment amounts, ranging anywhere from $250,000 to over $1 million.
	www.investorwords.com /2296/hedge_fund.html (306 words)

	Hedge Fund Center: Objective, educational information on hedge funds (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Hedge fund" is a general, non-legal term that was originally used to describe a type of p more....
		A hedge fund is a private investment limited partnership that invests in a variety of secu more....
		Simply put, a fund of funds is a one that invests in other hedge funds.
	www.hedgefundcenter.com /wrapper.cfm?article_type=basics (403 words)

	Hedge Fund Japan - Japan's Hedge Fund Need
		The Hedge Fund Japan team is hoping to help the Japanese institutional investor learn more about the best hedge fund solution for any possible investment need.
		The global hedge fund industry has largely grown out of a specialist culture coming from a focused area of finance, unlike Japan, where the traditional rotation of Japanese institutions has developed a widely experienced but more generalist skill set.
		The main appeal of hedge funds is their flexibility to constantly seek out, and act upon new profitable opportunities.
	www.hedgefundjapan.com /need.html (547 words)

	Hedge Fund Launch: Matching startup hedge funds with seed capital providers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Additionally, research has shown that hedge fund managers further along in their life cycle, and with limited or no capacity, are apt to experience a leveling off and/or decline in performance.
		A3: It is important to note that while Hedge Fund Launch, LLC becomes intricately involved in the process of developing a deal from start to finish, we do rely on the seed investors to give us an idea of their ideal start-up situation.
		A4: The basic structure of a seed capital investment in a hedge fund is similar to the structure of a venture capital investment.
	www.hedgefundlaunch.com /hfl1/index2.cfm?page=investor (1036 words)

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	www.hedgefundguru.com /index.php?page=terms_conditions (1290 words)

	About Hedge Funds - Synopsis of Hedge Fund Strategies
		Hedge funds are flexible in their investment options (can use short selling, leverage, derivatives such as puts, calls, options, futures, etc.).
		Many hedge fund strategies, particularly arbitrage strategies, are limited as to how much capital they can successfully employ before returns diminish.
		Investing in hedge funds tends to be favored by more sophisticated investors, including many Swiss and other private banks, who have lived through, and understand the consequences of, major stock market corrections.
	www.magnum.com /hedgefunds/strategies.asp (1453 words)

	Hedge Fund Investing
		A total of 8,500 such funds controls $1.0 trillion, up from $400 billion five years ago and $100 billion 10 years ago; the hedge fund market is expected to increase to $1.5 trillion in the next two to five years.
		hedge fund is a private investment club, usually a partnership open to a small number of wealthy investors, that invests in a variety of securities.
		In light of the heightened visibility and importance of hedge funds and their vulnerability to financial collapse due to their greater risk compared to mutual funds, SEC Chairman William Donaldson expressed interest in improving the regulation of hedge funds when he started his job, and the SEC has begun to do that.
	www.aicpa.org /PUBS/jofa/feb2005/evans.htm (3484 words)

	MAST: What is a Hedge Fund? Hedge Fund Resources
		A Hedge Fund may be described as a pool of private capital used to leverage an investment portfolio structured as a Limited Partnership.
		The Hedge Fund is generally unencumbered by archaic regulatory (Securities Act of 1933, Investment Company Act of 1940, etc.) procedures, and hence may have restricted liquidity, as they cannot be sold (or bought) in the open market.
		Hedge Funds can benefit a portfolio by reducing volatility and risk while simultaneously increasing returns, as many hedge funds have the ability to generate positive returns in both rising and falling equity and bond markets.
	www.mastpartners.com /HedgeFund.htm (1073 words)

	Hedge Fund
		That SOME hedge fund strategies are short volatility and can be modeled as effectively short sellers of options and hoping fl swan won't show up to reveal the fund as a lemon is very OLD news.
		Fortunately there are many quality hedge funds run by managers who are fully aware of the dangers of being short gamma and convexity, potential "rare" event fat-tail risks, carefully hedge for those exposures and maintain a long volatility profile.
		Sure some hedge funds are lemons but there are lots of skilled funds that DO manage such risks.
	hedgefund.blogspot.com (2377 words)

	Hedge Fund Reader : 22 Reasons Why Hedge Funds Stink For the Average Investor
		Possible strategic upheaval: Hedge funds use irregular trading strategies like derivatives, options, and short selling in their bid to generate absolute returns (positive returns irrespective of a bull or bear market).
		Hedge funds - haven for crooks: Fraud, scandals, allegations of insider trading, meltdowns – these are run-of-the-mill occurrences for hedge funds.
		Hedge funds - the fireflies of the financial family: Long term investments are not feasible when the average life of a hedge fund is only three years.
	www.hedgefundreader.com /2006/10/22_reasons_why_.html (1496 words)

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