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hedge funds

hedge funds is the plural of hedge fund.

Meaning of hedge fund

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

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What is hedge funds the plural of?
Hedge funds is the plural of hedge fund.

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  8. hedge in
  9. hedge marriage
  10. hedge marriages
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