What is hedge fund management?

Yes, I know something about hedge fund that "if one company has a risk then they go to hedge fund manager and He will offset their risk" But thats all I know - can any1 give me an in-depth explaination for an amateur like me.

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"Hedge Funds" are often referred to as "alternate investment vehicles" and are tailored to the needs of sophisticated, high net worth private investors. A Hedge Fund is generally structured as a limited partnership having a general partner responsible for the investment activities and day-to-day operation of the fund, and limited partners who are the investors supplying capital but not participating in trading or operations of the fund. The limited partners have limited liability. That is, their exposure to loss is limited to their investment. The General Partner has unlimited liability and is liable for the activities of the partnership. The General Partners principals limit their liability through the use of a corporation or limited liability company as the General Partner. (Of course, the principals cannot limit their liability from the application of the anti fraud provisions of the Federal Securities Laws.) All of the investors鈥?capital is pooled and is utilized by the General Partner or Investment Manager to implement its trading or investment strategy.

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this should help you out xxx

Hedge funds more often cater to very high net worth individuals, rather than institutions - although there is a greater prominence in investing in hedge fund indexes these days.

Basically, they're an alternative investment firm, often playing the short game. They are famous for high leveraged (i.e. a lot of borrowing) trades, and jumping aggressively in and out of markets often in a hugely speculative and risky way. They'll trade anything from equities to commodities, depending on the markets and the expertise of the managers.

They're mostly characterised by being small operations, usually partnerships, that generally only employ a handful of people. Also characterised for making rather large returns over the past few years. They charge management fees and often a % of returns, to those who invest - and there are often minimum limits to the amount you can give them to manage (e.g. $1m)

Trading strategies depend on the fund itself. Typical strategies include long/short, statistical abitrage, emerging markets etc.

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