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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 09:28 AM Original message |
How does a "hedge fund" work? |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. outside of googling, hedge funds are investment organizations for sophisticated investors |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 09:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Well, if they are complex and sophisticated.... |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Mutual funds short stock all the time, |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Well, I stand corrected then. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yeah initially hedge funds were desigded as hedges against the market. |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. Hedge funds are fine |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
4. Hedge funds are ok |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. You set aside $20/month for a year or so, and then you go to |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. What you described is what Paulson did but it doesn't describe a hedge fun. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. minor correction |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
8. You put your money in a mason jar and bury it under a shrub in the front yard. |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. The media just uses these terms like "Hedge Fund" because they need someone |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Now that you have noted the distinction...? |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:43 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Yes definitely. I don't know enough about it to know |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Excellent post! |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Wow, thanks! |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. What you describe is certainly fraudulent |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
18. There should be a law that people utterly ignorant of maths should stfu about maths. |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-20-10 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. You put money in and a shrubber is assigned to do your |
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