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hedge funds answer 1
A hedge fund is a fund that sells some stocks short, and buys other stocks long; with this technique, the overall value of buying and selling balances out, thereby eliminating heavy losses due to large market swings.

Correct answer: (d) swings

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The term hedge fund refers to the practice of balancing out transactions to ensure that a profit can still be made in any market turning, which distinguishes them from the spate of other fund strategies that sprang up at the beginning of the 21st century.

Correct answer: (b) spate

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Profit gains in a hedge fund rely on the choosing of appropriate stocks and acting on them at the most opportune moment.

Correct answer: (c) opportune

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Stock pioneer Alfred Winslow Jones used borrowed money to inject his funds with additional capital (leverage), and charged an incentive fee to his customers to place their money in his fund.

Correct answer: (c) inject

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For the most part, the term hedge fund now refers to any mostly unregulated fund using unconventional methods of investing.

Correct answer: (d) unconventional

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Some common hedge fund strategies include trading stock options and bonds, the purchase or sale of highly undervalued securities, and arbitrage.

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Unlike mutual funds, hedge funds are very lightly regulated, and so can keep their actions relatively secret.

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This secrecy makes it difficult to predict actual numbers for hedge funds, but estimates for 2003 were over US $650 billion under hedge fund management.

Correct answer: (c) under

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Hedge funds are subject to the same prohibitions against fraud as are other market participants, and their managers have the same fiduciary duties as other investment advisers.

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Only accredited investors and qualified purchasers may invest in them — those who have incomes of over $200,000 per year or a net worth of over $1 million, or those who already have at least $5 million in investments.

Correct answer: (d) worth

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