Derivatives can be used for speculation (" bets ") or to hedge (" insurance ").

You have to take action ; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets.

There are approximately five principal varieties of coins produced by Stephen's mints, normally containing the legend, but one issue bears the legend which cannot be translated but is thought to have been constructed by the moneyers to look like the previous reign's, so they could disassociate themselves from the conflict and hedge their bets about who would win, while still providing the required number of new coins.

' Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid ', the king explained, ' I have decided to hedge my bets.

The Master, realising that Goth has been effectively defeated, decides to hedge his bets and tries to trap the Doctor in the Matrix by overloading the neuron fields, even though this will kill Goth.

Hull's computers search the markets for temporary price imperfections, devise transactions to profit from the imperfections, and hedge those bets to protect against other risks.

He was brought on to hedge the company's bets with a different engine family than the small V12s designed by Gioacchino Colombo.

There are allegations that at least one hedge fund encouraged the creation of poor quality CDOs so bets could be made against them.

On October 9, 2009, the New York Times reported that Zoe Cruz was possibly starting her own hedge fund named Vorás Capital Management, which is expected to focus on distressed assets and macroeconomic bets on currencies and securities She started her hedge fund that year, but liquidated the fund in May 2012 after having a difficult time raising above the initial $ 200 million.

Also called municipal bond relative value arbitrage, municipal arbitrage, or just muni arb, this hedge fund strategy involves one of two approaches.

The fictional exploits of Jesse Livermore as chronicled in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator ( 1923 ) also describe speculative vehicles dubbed " pools " that are similar, if not the same, in form and function as what would later be called " hedge funds ".

In 1999, Kurzweil created a hedge fund called " FatKat " ( Financial Accelerating Transactions from Kurzweil Adaptive Technologies ), which began trading in 2006.

Alfred Winslow Jones, called " the father of the hedge fund industry ," lived on Poverty Hollow Road.

This hedge is called delta hedging and is the basis of more complicated hedging strategies such as those engaged in by Wall Street investment banks.

Collectively these have also been called the risk sensitivities, risk measures or hedge parameters.

In North America it is known as hedge maple and in Australia it is sometimes called common maple.

In 2007, MFS created a hedge fund subsidiary called Four Pillars Capital, to create seed and expansion funds for the firms newly established alternative investment operations.

That part which touches the district of Olpe is called the " Kölsches Heck " (" Cologne hedge ").

In 2003, it split off a portion of its financial operations into a hedge fund called Black River Asset Management, with about $ 10 billion of assets and liabilities.

In 1985, Warren Mosler, a bond trader who managed a hedge fund with $ 5 billion under management, started a company called Consulier Industries and introduced the Consulier GTP, a 2200 lb.

Apart from those, many of the analysts and managers Robertson employed and mentored at Tiger Management went out on their own and are now running some of the best-known hedge fund firms, called " Tiger Cubs ".

This ' digging down and stocking up ' was very hard work and as a result when creating internal boundaries, the ditch was often left out but the result was still called a hedge.

McCaffrey also advises wealthy philanthropists and some hedge fund donors about their philanthropic giving and steered a number of high net worth individuals towards a Michelangelo chapel restoration project in the Vatican called the Pauline Chapel as well as towards the charities of HRH The Prince of Wales.

Apart from those Tiger Seeds, a considerable number of analysts and managers Robertson employed and mentored at Tiger Management went out on their own and are now running some of the best-known hedge fund firms, called " Tiger Cubs ", run by Tiger alumni such as Chris Shumway, Lee Ainslie, Stephen Mandel, John Griffin, David Gerstenhaber and Paul Touradji.

The trophy was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named Pickles .< ref >

In October 2009, the UK Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) commenced six-monthly surveys of the risks posed by hedge funds and their counterparties.

Peter Andreas Thiel (), born October 11, 1967, is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager.

In October, 2008 it was reported in the NY Times that due to the recent financial recession, some of Pickens's gifts to the athletic department had seen a large decline in their market value while being managed in his hedge funds.

The internationally systemic crises that followed included the equity crash of October 1987, the Japanese asset price collapse of the 1990s the Asian financial crisis of 1997 the Russian government default of 1998 ( which brought down the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund ) and the 2007-8 sub-prime mortgages crisis.

The company announced the elimination of the last of its hedge book in October 2010.

Kenneth C. Griffin ( born October 15, 1968 in Daytona Beach, Florida ) is an American hedge fund manager.

Developing countries ( democratic or not ) have been moved to harden their currencies, accept International Monetary Fund rules, join the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), and submit to a broad regime of reforms that amount to a hedge against being isolated.

Some of them are still on the floor while others have moved on to philanthropic endeavors or to other areas of the business such as hedge funds.

As his father moved from one small farm to another, he attended various hedge schools, which used to be a notable feature of Irish life.

The club moved to their Glebe Park home in 1919, a stadium which currently has a capacity of 3, 960 ( 1, 519 seated ) and is famous for the hedge that runs alongside one side of the pitch.

In 1997 the Firm moved into the hedge funds space, launching a third line of business with three fund of funds, with a fourth fund being added in 1999.

After studying mechanical engineering at Boston University, he moved to New York, where he worked at hedge funds, Oppenheimer & Co. and Alpha Investment Management.

Porsche then formally announced in a press statement that it did not intend to take over Volkswagen Group ( it would set its offer price at the lowest possible legal value ) but intended the move to avoid a competitor taking a large stake, and to stop hedge funds dismantling Volkswagen Group, which is Porsche's most important partner.

Thales successfully negotiated low prices because the harvest was in the future and no one knew whether the harvest would be plentiful or poor and because the olive press owners were willing to hedge against the possibility of a poor yield.

For several years, Griffin avoided extensive press coverage in a manner similar to other hedge fund managers such as billionaire Steven A. Cohen .< ref >

And the coffee shop on Drexel Street, where the men spent their evenings and Sundays playing cards, had a rose hedge beneath its window.

Directional hedge fund strategies include US and international long / short equity hedge funds, where long equity positions are hedged with short sales of equities or equity index options.

Under Dodd-Frank, hedge fund managers who have less than US $ 100 million in assets under management will be overseen by the state where the manager is domiciled and become subject to state regulation.

In the United Kingdom, where 80 % of Europe's hedge funds are based, hedge fund managers are required to be authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority ( FSA ), the national regulator.

Passive management is most common on the equity market, where index funds track a stock market index, but it is becoming more common in other investment types, including bonds, commodities and hedge funds.

" That mysterious artist was truly gifted with the vision that perceives the Dharma-Body as the hedge at the bottom of the garden ", reflected Huxley. Temporarily leaving the chronological flow, he mentions that four or five hours into the experience he was taken to the World ’ s Biggest Drug Store ( WBDS ) where he was presented with books on art.

* In the upcoming film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is getting into a double deal by becoming a CIA ’ s intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.

It prefers a deep and fertile soil but it has great powers of adaptation and is hardy over most of the contiguous United States, where it is extensively used as a hedge plant.

In Wexford he attended a local hedge school, where the teacher, Michael Donnelly, fed his hunger for knowledge and where he learned of the long history of English occupation and Irish rebellion, including the more recent uprising of 1798.

* Six and out rule-hitting the ball over the fence ( or into the water, into the big hedge, or some other area where the ball may be difficult to retrieve ) counts as six runs and out.

This can lead to swaps where principal is paid on one or more legs, rather than just interest ( for example to hedge a coupon strip ), or where the balance of the swap is automatically adjusted to match that of a prepaying bond ( such as RMBS Residential mortgage-backed security )

The term Operational due diligence is often used to describe the due diligence process used by hedge fund investors, particularly where this incorporates, or focuses largely on, operational risks.

The regimental chaplain buried him by a hedge, close to where he died.

The technique of coppicing can be used to rejuvenate a hedge where hedge-laying is not appropriate.

A hedge can be aesthetically pleasing, as in a tapestry hedge, where alternate species are planted at regular intervals to present different colours or textures.

Some local jurisdictions may strictly regulate the placement or height of a hedge such as the case where a city resident allowed her xylosma hedge to grow above two feet.

The hedge schools of earlier decades which had helped maintain the native culture were now supplanted by a system of National Schools where only English was permitted.

He attended a local hedge school in Graiguecullen near Carlow, where he excelled in mathematics and accounting.