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...Mutual-fund regulations prohibit the kind of leverage that drove Long Term Capital into receivership. The Securities and Exchange Commission also makes mutual funds disclose details of their investments. There are few such restrictions on hedge funds--or protections for their investors--except that the funds may not accept investors with less than $1 million in liquid assets...
...would anyone want to invest in a hedge fund? Historically, these funds have delivered superior long-term returns--in falling markets as well as rising ones. Hedge funds are so named because they're better able to hedge risks. They are meant to play both offense and defense. They can bet on some stocks to rise and others to fall. Even when they bet on a stock to rise, they can buy a separate position that cuts their losses if that stock falls sharply. And they can invest in any instrument--stocks, bonds, pork bellies--in any country they want...
...fairly traditional hedge-fund manager, I use leverage sparingly and don't buy any instrument whose price can't be found in the Wall Street Journal. I bet on stocks that my research shows to be under- or overvalued, not on the direction of the French yield curve or the Thai baht. I play defense by betting against stocks that are too expensive, usually by buying put options--in essence, borrowing shares that I can repay at a profit after the price declines...
...globalists and International Monetary Fund supporters will disagree with the steps Malaysia has taken to control its currency and block foreign investors from making short-term gains on the local market. But do we have any choice when the very people who are supposed to control the international financial system are unable to stop the currency manipulators? Speculators are changing the fundamentals of our economy in a period of three to six months. Left to true market forces, currency revaluations would take two to three years. Try to understand that we are fighting for our survival. The imf helps only...
...invest in large companies, buy a low-fee index fund. But to invest in smaller stocks, it's worth paying more for an active fund manager. That's the upshot of a new study by Morningstar, which shows that for the five years ending Aug. 31, the S&P 500 index outperformed actively managed large-cap funds. Managed small-cap funds, however, almost always bested the Russell 2000 index...