Globe And Mail – Do hedge funds need a new name? Hedging is a way of reducing risk, but many hedge funds proved to be hyper-risky after the experience of 2008.<\/p>\n
We use the term hedge fund all the time when describing our product, but it really is a catch-all for all kinds of strategies that don’t fit under the traditional label. A better name might be alternative strategies. Or maybe we should be a little more specific, like using the term long-short equity fund [bets on stocks both rising and falling in price] or trend following [detecting trends in stocks and markets using various kinds of analysis]. Globe And Mail – Do hedge funds need a new name? Hedging is a way of reducing risk, but many hedge funds proved to be hyper-risky after the experience of 2008. We use the term hedge fund all the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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