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hedge fund

hedge fund noun: a mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.

Noun

hedge fund (plural hedge funds)

  1. 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...2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN

hedge fund meaning in Tamil

hedge fund in Tamil

இடர்க்காப்புக்நிதி

Forms of hedge fund

pluralhedge funds

Origin of hedge fund

Early hedge funds hedged against risk.

Questions about hedge fund

What does hedge fund mean?
Hedge fund means a mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.
What is hedge fund in Tamil?
Hedge fund in Tamil is இடர்க்காப்புக்நிதி. See Hedge fund meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hedge fund?
Hedge fund is a noun.
What is the plural of hedge fund?
The plural of hedge fund is hedge funds.

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