Hedge funds are typically open-ended, meaning that investors can invest and withdraw money at regular, specified intervals.

Hedge fund management firms typically charge their funds both a management fee and a performance fee.

Hedge funds employ a wide range of trading strategies but classifying them is difficult due to the rapidity with which they change and evolve.

Hedge funds utilizing a global macro investing strategy take sizable positions in share, bond or currency markets in anticipation of global macroeconomic events in order to generate a risk-adjusted return.

Hedge funds purchasing distressed debt may prevent those companies from going bankrupt, as such an acquisition deters foreclosure by banks.

Hedge funds ideally produce returns relatively uncorrelated with market indices.

Hedge funds share many of the same types of risk as other investment classes, including liquidity risk and manager risk.

Hedge funds employing leverage are likely to engage in extensive risk management practices.

Hedge funds are typically open-ended, meaning that the fund will periodically accept further investment and allow investors to withdraw their money from the fund.

Hedge funds within the US are subject to various regulatory and trading reporting and record keeping requirements that also apply to other investors in publicly traded securities.

Hedge funds are privately-owned pools of investment capital with regulatory limits on the number and type of investor that each fund may have.

Hedge funds raise capital via private placement under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, which means the shares are not registered.

Hedge funds that have a class of equity securities owned by more than 499 investors do, however, have to register under Section 12 ( g ) of the 1934 Act and are subject the quarterly reporting requirements of the Act.

Hedge funds ordinarily do not have daily liquidity, but rather " lock up " periods of time where the total returns are generated ( net of fees ) for their investors and then returned when the term ends.

Hedge funds have to file accounts and conduct their business in compliance with the requirements of these offshore centers.

Hedge funds based in Hong Kong are subject to the same licensing requirements as mutual funds.

Hedge funds fail regularly, and numerous hedge funds failed during the financial crisis.

Hedge funds performance is measured by comparing their returns to an estimate of their risk.

# Hedge funds are highly individual and it is hard to estimate the likely returns or risks ;

# Hedge funds ' low correlation with other assets tends to dissipate during stressful market events, making them much less useful for diversification than they may appear ; and

Hedge funds posted disappointing returns in 2008, but the average hedge fund return of − 18. 65 % ( the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index return ) was far better than the returns generated by most assets other than cash or cash equivalents.

* Hedge funds ( private investment funds ) use tools from all fields of numerical analysis to calculate the value of stocks and derivatives more precisely than other market participants.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

They include poems dedicated to Schücking, often on the theme of ageing ( e. g. " Kein Wort ", " O frage nicht "), and poems of self-analysis such as " Der Spiegelbild " (" The Image in the Mirror ") and " Die Taxuswand " (" The Yew Hedge "), which looks back to her unhappy love affair with Straube.

Archeological evidence, such as the so-called Giant's Hedge and the stone circle at Bin Down ( from the Cornish " Bin Dun ", meaning " hill fort ") on a hill above East Looe, indicates that the area around Looe was inhabited as early as 1000 BC.

One such example is the way in which online free newspaper sites such as The Huffington Post and Zero Hedge are leading to creative destruction of the traditional paper newspaper.

In 1760, such numbers were reached and the town hired a young Reverend Lemuel Hedge.

The trolls are also seen in the movies The Borrowers, Tank Girl, Whore, 54, Over the Hedge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Snow Day, and Toy Story 3, as well as episodes in various television series, such as King of the Hill, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Living Single, The Nanny, The King of Queens, Friends, Step by Step, 7th Heaven, The Simpsons ( episodes " Flaming Moe's ", " Bart's Girlfriend " and " I Am Furious Yellow "), Family Guy ( Peter transforms into one in segment two of " Family Guy Viewer Mail # 1 ") and The Office.

Over 1, 000 cultivars have been selected, including plants selected for cold tolerance (' Cobalt ', a male cultivar, is able to tolerate temperatures as low as − 32 ° C ), growth form ( e. g. dwarf forms such as ' Cardinal Hedge ', a female plant growing to 1. 2 m tall ), and color and abundance of fruit ( notable female cultivars including the large-berried ' Yule ', and the yellow-berried ' Canary ' and ' Morgan Gold ').

Its caterpillars can be a pest on cultivated cabbages, kale, radish, broccoli, and horseradish but it will readily lay eggs on wild members of the cabbage family such as Charlock ( Sinapis arvensis ) and Hedge mustard ( Sisybrium officinale ).

Hedge funds who received margin financing from Lehman Brothers could not withdraw their collateral when Lehman declared bankruptcy due to a lack of asset protection rules ( such as 15c3 in the United States ) in the United Kingdom.

The book Taxation of US Investment Partnerships and Hedge Funds: Accounting Policies, Tax Allocations and Performance Presentation by Vasavada ( 2010 ) codifies partnership accounting into linear algebra and uses the engineering algorithm of convex optimization to solve for partner tax allocations.

The remaining investment banking activities are in fixed income, commodities, FX and Funds of Hedge Funds ( COMAS ) Investment banking, capital market, equities, and corporate banking operations are now integrated as a division of the Commerzbank group.

It is stratified by financial services industry, with major weekly sections on Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Trading & Technology, Merges & Acquisitions, Hedge Funds, Debt Markets, Equity Markets and Derivatives.

That year, the company was termed the largest hedge fund in the U. S. and it received the Alternative Investment News 7th Annual Hedge Fund Industry's Lifetime Achievement award and PlanSponsor's Hedge Fund Manager of the year award.

For example, in January – September 2008, the Credit Suisse / Tremont Hedge Fund Index was down 9. 87 %.

* Makrem Boumlouka, ' Regulation and Transparency in US OTC Derivative Markets ', Original Thoughts Series # 1, August 2010, Hedge Fund Society Hedge Fund Society

* Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel, and Rene M. Stulz, 2010, " Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity Shocks ", The Journal of Finance, 65: 1789 – 1816

* Samuel Israel III, former hedge fund manager that ran the former fraudulent Bayou Hedge Fund Group.

* Barton Biggs, Author and Hedge Fund Manager

* David E. Shaw, Hedge Fund Manager

* Gramercy Advisors, a Hedge Fund in Greenwich, CT

* Certified Hedge Fund Professional

* Fidelity Hires Hedge Fund Pro, October 24, 2005

* William F. Duhamel, Hedge Fund Investor, Farallon Capital Management

Such an investment pool is commonly known as a Hedge Fund or a Private equity fund.

* BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre

In 2010, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, received Institutional Investor magazine's 8th Annual Hedge Fund Industry award for Large Fund of Hedge Funds of the Year.

*" Mindich Opening $ 3. 5 Billion Hedge Fund ," New York Sun, November 2, 2004

In 2009 he received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 8th annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards.

In 2011, the firm was reported to have $ 27. 9 billion in assets under management and was ranked sixth on Institutional Investor's Hedge Fund 100 list.

Jim Simons ' Renaissance Technologies Medallion Hedge Fund has consistently outperformed the market.