hedge fund en · NOUN
Etymology
Early hedge funds hedged against risk.
Meanings
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A mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.
Hedge funds date to 1949, when Alfred Winslow Jones, a writer at Fortune, opened a private investment firm using sixty thousand dollars he had raised from friends and forty thousand he had saved. To boost his returns, Jones borrowed heavily and bought stocks he liked “on margin”—a practice that had been discredited in the late nineteen-twenties.
2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hedge funds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (15)
nl hedgefonds (unregistered investment fund) · ja ヘッジファンド (unregistered investment fund) · sv hedgefond (unregistered investment fund) · bg хедж фонд (unregistered investment fund) · is vogunarsjóður (unregistered investment fund) · fr fonds spéculatif (unregistered investment fund) · es fondo de cobertura (unregistered investment fund) · ru хедж-фонд (unregistered investment fund) · ka ჰეჯ-ფონდი (unregistered investment fund) · fi vipurahasto (unregistered investment fund) · cmn 對沖基金 /对冲基金 (unregistered investment fund) · de Hedgefonds (unregistered investment fund) · no hekkefond (unregistered investment fund) · fi suojausrahasto (unregistered investment fund) · fi hedge-rahasto (unregistered investment fund)