Hedge funds no longer have the secretive image that led many investors to shy away from the asset class. In fact, many of the techniques they use are now being employed by traditional managers to boost performance
Hedge funds have been around for many years in various forms but until relatively recently, the asset class has been largely ignored by the investment community. The increased popularity of hedging strategies has resulted in an increase in asset flows into hedge funds, as well as a greater level of investigation into what hedge fund managers actually do, how they do it and whether historic returns are sustainable. In the early days, hedge funds were highly secretive investment vehicles aimed at extremely wealthy private investors who had no interest in understanding the strategies used as...
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