0 a type of investment that can make a lot of profit but involves a large risk:
1 an investment fund that trades large amounts of shares, currencies, etc. to take advantage of both rising and falling prices, for example by shorting (= borrowing shares, etc., selling them, and buying them back at a lower price):
He tried to save a ropy secondary bank, which is now called a hedge fund, and reduced interest rates three times in two weeks.
However, the crucial thing is that hedge fund failures do not appear to have spilled over to the wider financial system.
Our prudential framework and bank risk controls have, as we expected, prevented hedge fund failures from triggering wider systemic disruption.
However, the regulation of alternative investment fund managers also provides a new opportunity to establish a new hedge fund culture.
The bonus regulation that we have introduced for bank managers will also be extended to hedge fund managers in order to ensure sustainability here and to minimise the risk.
He has led investigations of market timing, stock options backdating, financial fraud, insider trading, and investment advisor and hedge fund fraud.
Funds of hedge funds select hedge fund managers and construct portfolios based upon those selections.
Hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while investors earned only $70 billion in profits.
