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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.


hedge fund British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of hedge fund

First recorded in 1965–70

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“It runs sort of like a hedge fund would,” Edsman said of his agentic trading portfolio, which is kept in a separate account from his other investments at Robinhood.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

The negative-beta stocks worked particularly well during the volatile phase when the Iran war was first launched, as well as at the time of the blowup of the hedge fund Situational Awareness in July.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Then last month, just two days before his wedding, Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund unraveled.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

He quickly turned that interest into money for a hedge fund that eventually managed $45 billion in assets, backed by investors who believed in his prophecy—or his ability to profit from it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

A few months before I quit, my bosses asked me to explain to our CEO what at the time seemed like exotic trades in derivatives I’d done with a European hedge fund, and I’d tried.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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