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 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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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

Hedge fund managers can use various types of analysis to identify price discrepancies in securities, including mathematical, technical or fundamental techniques.

Hedge fund management firms are usually owned by their portfolio managers, who are therefore entitled to any profits that the business makes.

He then served as President of MSG Hedge Corporation, a privately owned consulting firm.

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

The 22nd failed to take Raven ′ s Hedge ( Rabenheck ), beaten back by heavy machine-gun and artillery fire along the firebreaks.

The Hambro family developed and lived at Milton Abbey until 1932, when it was sold and for a while they relocated to Hedge End Farm nearby, followed by a permanent move to Dixton Manor in Gloucestershire.

In the same year, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1836, by prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam ( 1807 – 78 ; the Unitarian minister in Roxbury ) Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge, all of them from the same native town.

* The Quants, a novel by Scott Paterson about Hedge Funds that use Quantitative analyst

* Narawane SP 1991 Success stories of Multi-purpose tree species production by small farmers in NG Hedge and JN Daniel eds, Multi-purpose tree species production by small farmers, proceedings of the National Workshop.

* Brown, T., A Treatise on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, abridged, and distributed according to the natural divisions of the subject by Levi Hedge, ed., in two volumes, Cambridge: Hillard and Brown, 1827.

On 22 May 2011 the zoo was consulted by Hampshire Constabulary for advice on how to tranquilise a white tiger lurking in grass at Hedge End.

* Zero Hedge, a financial blog started in 2009 by a group of Wall Street traders & insiders, posting under the nom-de-plume, ' Tyler Durden '.

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.

It is bordered in the east by the Barrow-downs, and in the west by the High Hay ( also known as the Hedge ), a large hedge which the Hobbits of Buckland cultivated after they cut the forest to make room for their new homes.

When the trees grew too close to the Hedge, hobbits cut down the trees nearest and created a clearing by a bonfire.

" According to this chapter, the trees had attacked Buckland much earlier by planting themselves next to the Hedge and leaning over.

He also noted that many of them referred to themselves as " hedge witches ", a term that was first developed by the writer Rae Beth in her book Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft ( 1990 ).

* Chlorr of the Mask-an ancient necromancer who Sabriel defeats early in Lirael, but is raised again by Hedge to become one of the Greater Dead Adept

During her journey through Death to use the Dark Mirror, she is confronted by and defeats Hedge.

It is produced by DB Pro, who previously adapted " The Legend of Huma " by Richard A. Knaak and " The Hedge Knight " by George R. R. Martin and published by Red Eagle Entertainment.