What do hedge funds do?

What do hedge funds do? Basically what does a hedge fund do in general?

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Hedge funds take money from accredited investors and find ways to efficiently invest it and generate high returns.

Typically hedge funds will look for opportunities in financial markets like the stocks, bonds, and options. Hedge funds have fewer regulations and therefore they often construct complicated portfolios involving shorts and complex derivatives.

Answered by Karen Springer | 2019-02-11 |

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Hedge Funds look for ways to make money from their investors funds.

This often involves researching stocks to find companies that they believe are undervalued. They invest in those companies and hope they make money off those investments. They usually take a percentage of any profits and give the rest to the fund's investors.

Answered by Norman Gray | 2019-02-09 |

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Hedge funds pool money from a group of large investors and use that money to invest in the markets. Hedge funds employ experienced analysts and portfolio managers to manage investors' money and research new opportunities.

Answered by Joshua Pickens | 2019-02-10 |

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Hedge funds aggressively pursue returns using complex investment strategies that cater to the risk tolerance of their investors. The strategies can stretch across multiple markets and countries, and many funds in fact have a global investment strategy.

Hedge funds typically seek higher returns since their investors usually have a higher risk tolerance.

Answered by Abraham James | 2019-02-10 |

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A hedge fund invests in the financial markets with the goal of achieving absolute returns. That is, a hedge fund strives to make money regardless of a market cycle.

The ability of a hedge fund to make money in bearish markets comes from employing hedging strategies that involve short selling stocks, buying put options, and trading other derivatives.

Answered by Dominic Simmons | 2019-02-10 |

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