hedge fund

American  

[hej fuhnd] / ˈhɛdʒ ˌfʌnd /

noun

• hedge funds
  plural

1. an investment partnership that uses high-risk, speculative methods to obtain large, short-term profits.

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hedge fund British  

noun

1. a largely unregulated speculative fund which offers substantial returns for high-risk investments

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hedge funds
  plural

Etymology

Origin of hedge fund

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

hedge fund

The book is about hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, which collapsed in 1998 with possibly the highest-IQ team ever, including two Nobel Prize winners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

This week: Situational Awareness—an A.I.-forward hedge fund led by a former wunderkind and OpenAI employee—was tanking fast until a rival fund stepped in.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Also read: Implosion of Situational Awareness hedge fund has Wall Street betting the bottom is in for the AI trade.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Her strength was in analyzing financial markets and managing the billions in her exclusive hedge fund.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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