hedge fund

[hej fuhnd]

noun

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

hedge fund

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hedge fund¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Not all hedge funds received an equal share of these inflows, however.

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If investors react impulsively, the people who benefit will be the professionals: the hedge funds, proprietary traders, and algorithmic funds who already dominate pre- and postmarket trading and can take advantage of irrationally priced assets.

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The first assets I managed were a sleeve in our global credit-market-neutral hedge fund.

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Six Flags on Friday added Jonathan Brudnick, a partner at activist hedge fund Sachem Head Capital, to its board as part of an agreement.

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It’s not just us mere mortals trying to wrap our brains around these mind-boggling numbers, as one of the world’s biggest hedge funds seems dumbfounded.

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