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Title: What is a hedge fund?
Post by: PauloLuks on April 11, 2018, 07:51:25 PM
Can anyone explain to me what a hedge fund is in a simple manner?

Thank you all


Title: Re: What is a hedge fund?
Post by: Zwei on April 11, 2018, 08:16:31 PM
according to Wikipedia, A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund


Title: Re: What is a hedge fund?
Post by: Rubius on April 11, 2018, 08:47:04 PM
Can anyone explain to me what a hedge fund is in a simple manner?

Thank you all

It's just an investment fund, could be small/big or formal/informal -- but typically, when someone mentions a hedge fund, you assume that it is a legitimate investment fund trading large amounts of money (i.e. billions of dollars)