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 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.

Hedge funds that do fundamental analysis " are far more likely than other investors to try to identify a firm ’ s off-balance-sheet exposures ", including " environmental or social liabilities present in a market or company but not explicitly accounted for in traditional numeric valuation or mainstream investor analysis ", and hence make the prices better reflect the true quality of operation of the firms.

Hedge funds usually focus on short or medium term liquid securities which are more quickly convertible to cash, and they do not have direct control over the business or asset in which they are investing.

" Hedge fund managers may hold a large number of investment positions for short durations and are likely to have a particularly comprehensive risk management system in place.

Having known all of the economic problems confronting the Kingdom and that Thailand had used the multiple currency basket peg exchange rate, the foreign speculators ( including the Hedge Funds ) were certain that the Thai Government would soon have to devalue the Baht.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis have given Rudolph another brother in a series of Over the Hedge comic strips ; an overweight, emotionally-damaged reindeer named " Ralph, the Infra-Red nosed Reindeer ", who has a red nose just like Rudolph's, but his is good for defrosting Santa's sleigh and warming up toast and waffles.

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 ').

* Hedge woundwort, thought to have antiseptic qualities

Hedge funds ( such as The Children's Investment Fund ( TCI )) have attempted to use Total Return Swaps to side-step public disclosure requirements enacted under the Williams Act.

* " Learning to Love Hedge Funds ; Hedge funds have been reviled as slick opportunists that fanned the flames of the collapse.

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.

The name Burnage is thought to have stemmed from " Brown Hedge ", from the old brown stone walls or " hedges " which were common there in medieval times.

The route through the Hedge End area towards the town of Portchester would therefore have been an important one.

For the length of Leicester Square is Whicomb St and finally Hedge Lane which now starts at Panton St rather than James Street.

" In an Over the Hedge Sunday strip, Verne ends with " Maybe Mary Worth needs a pet turtle " ( signifying his frustration with his co-characters ' disconnection from reality ) after RJ and Hammy discusses rather surrealistically around the life of missing socks, as if the socks were individual life forms on their own.

In 1943 and 1944, during the build up to D-Day and the invasion of Europe, Hedge End was on the outermost edge of a huge marshalling site set up in Hampshire by the military, known as Area C Hedge End was actually part of sub-area Z within Area C with the nearest camp, camp C3, located at Netley Common.

* In the 2006 film Over the Hedge, Deep Note is featured in a scene late in the movie, when the animals enter a house and Penny accidentally switches on the television nearly waking up Gladys Sharp.

There were by this time at least two paper mills: Glory in Wooburn Green and Hedge in Loudwater.

Although not in active service for many years before 2010, fifty B53s were retained during that time as part of the " Hedge " portion of the Enduring Stockpile until its complete dismantling in 2011.

Kirkpatrick has a longstanding relationship with DreamWorks Animation, where he has contributed as a writer or story consultant on “ The Road to El Dorado ,” “ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ” and “ Madagascar .” In May 2006, DreamWorks Animation released “ Over the Hedge ,” for which Kirkpatrick co-wrote the screenplay and made his directorial debut, sharing the credit with Tim Johnson.

# Hedge fund returns are reduced considerably by the high fee structures that are typically charged.