What do hedge funds invest in ?
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Enjoy the reading.\n\nThey operate through private placements and restrict share ownership to rich individuals and institutions frees them from most disclosure and regulation requirements that apply to mutual funds and banks.\n\nFor present purposes, three main classes of hedge funds can be identified: \n\nmacro funds, which take large directional (unhedged) positions in national markets based on top-down analysis of macroeconomic and financial conditions, including the current account, the inflation rate, and the real exchange rate; \n\nglobal funds, which also take positions worldwide, but employ bottom-up analysis, picking stocks on the basis of individual companies' prospects; and \n\nrelative value funds, which take bets on the relative prices of closely related securities (treasury bills and bonds, for example).
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Treasury bonds or any other guaranteed government bonds.  \n\nYou are going to find that "safe" investments do not earn a great deal of return.  But remember rule #1..never invest money you can't afford to lose.
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Your question needs to be more detailed...\nvanguard is the cheapest way to invest in index funds..their commission are almost NONEXISTENT..
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I believe in investing in the long run and actually prefer investing a diversified portfolio with funds allocated to each asset class by a specified percentage.\n\nBut I do set aside 10% of my portfolio as "play money" for me to invest in individual stocks.  If you want long-term growth that you won't loose sleep, I believe the solid companies to invest now are Barclays Bank ADR (BCS), Honda (HMC), Toyota (TM), Starbucks (SBUX) and Audible (ADBL).  These are arranged from the least risky to the most risky.
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They are private funds similar to mutual funds that are managed in a similar manner. they usually require a hefty minimum to get in. Mostly wealthy investors.
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You can buy stock/mutul funds/CDs. But, it depends on when in the future do you need the money.
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The biggest hedge funds and investment banks hire Ph.D.s from places like MIT to develop trading strategies.  Any worthwhile positions where arbitrage might exist are immediately exploited.\n\nThink about it like this.  If the masses could earn riskless profits in excess of transaction fees with just a few econ courses in their back pockets, how long do you think the opportunities would exist in an efficient or semi-efficient market?\n\nIf you want to pursue a trading strategy that doesn't simply track a index, read up on some of the persistent return anomalies (i.e. momentum, book to market) in the finance academic literature.  These are still contentious among academicians, so don't expect to find a how-to guide.
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Probably it invest in municipal bonds and other bonds which are not taxed.  The yield will be low but very low risk.  Personally, I think that you would be better off investing in a portfolio of Exchange Traded Funds(ETFs).  With long term goals in mind the risk is not really a factor and the risk would still be relatively low.  Don't cheat yourself out of higher profits out of paranoia.  ETFs are mutual funds that trade like stocks and typically mimic an index such as the DJ30 or a commodity such as gold.  Very simple :)
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You can invest it in many different things. Bonds, stocks, mutual funds, CD's, T-bill, gold, silver, land, rare coins, art, antiques, baseball cards, to name just a few. \n\nIt would be perhaps better to ask, "How would you invest $10,000?"  At least that way you would get different points of view. \n\nIf all I had was $10,000 to invest and I did not have any outstanding debts to be paid off, I would put $3000 in oil stocks, $3000 in a mutual fund investing in China, and $4000 in T-bills or a mutual fund investing in foreign debt because the dollar is not a healthy place to be right now.
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Unit Trusts or Mutual funds is a good starting point for investors who do not have the time to research on stocks themselves.\n\nThe Pros are:\n1. save you the trouble (or robs you of the fun of) of researching on potential stocks and to construct a portfolio of your own.\n\n2. easy way to get involved in the stock markets.\n\nThe Cons are:\n1. MANDATE! - Every mutual fund has a FIXED mandate that requires them to be almost fully invested at all times. As mutual funds have portfolios that are generally bullish, they only do well when stock markets do well... if the stock market crashes, the fund crashes with it and there is nothing the fund managers can do. The mandate prohibits the fund managers from bailing out of the markets even if they know the market will crash! This brainless way of investing in the stock markets has made hedge funds a lot more attractive recently.\n\n2. Fund Expense. There is a fixed expense ratio for every fund which pays for the fund manager's salary, admin costs, advertising costs etc... The profit performance is what is left after all these are paid for. That is why you see many fund managers driving nice, big cars even though their funds are not performing well.\n\n3. Tie Down Period. There is always a tie down period where you cannot withdraw out of a mutual fund without incurring some kind of penalty charge. That can rob you of short term cashflow when you suddenly need money.\n\n4. Withdrawal Charge. Yes, even if you fulfill the tie down period, there will usually be a withdrawal charge for getting out of the fund.\n\nProfiting from the stock markets is already a difficult thing to achieve consistently. By investing in a mutual fund, it makes the difficult thing more difficult by having so many expenses built into it. Frankly, when the markets do well, you would be better off just buying an ETF on the local index and when markets start to fail, you will be able to bail out quickly and safely without any penalties or expenses at all.\n\nMutual funds is only one of the many ways to get involved in the stock markets. There are a lot more ways, some safer and with higher returns, to invest in the stock markets and you need to read and research on your alternatives.\n\nI recommend some pretty good books that have benefitted myself at http://www.bestoptiontradingbooks.com...\n\nhope these helps.\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.mastersoequity.com\n\n\n\n\n.
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They could buy futures contracts or options to hedge price movements, so if prices go up, they make their money through the financial markets and make up for the money that they are losing at the pump.
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The hedge fund guy said it straight.  Your question can't be answered.\n\nIf you told me your time horizon, your risk tolerance, your expected return, and what else you have invested, then we could talk.
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Simply...yes.\n\nIn fact, there is a whole sector of mutual funds called "life-cycle" funds that invest your money acorss a wide range of mutual fonds and bonds and cash depending on when you want the investment to mature. \n\nAdditionally, there are mutual funds that invest in "open-ended" funds that are the precursors to ETF. Speaking of ETF, those are mutual funds that other mutual funds can, and do, invest in. \n\nOn a contrary note, there are a few restrictions on exactly what funds a mutual fund can invest in competing fund families. That is...Fidelity Contrafund is limited in what it can invest into Vangaurd or Van Campen...(only examples).\n\nHope this helps!!
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If you go to Yahoo finance, you will find that information.  \n\nI have set up the screen for you.\n\nhttp://screen.yahoo.com/a?cc=3%3B&nm=&proy=&mgrt=&rtmin=4&rtmax=&retrmin=&retrmax=&risrmin=&risrmax=&trytd=&troy=&trty=&trfy=&mii=&mfl=0&er=&namin=&namax=&tomin=&tomax=&mmcmin=&mmcmax=&vw=1&db=funds\n\nThere are also closed end funds that invest in foreign stocks\n\nYou can find them at this site.\n\nhttp://www.etfconnect.com/
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There are several types of Mutual Funds:\n\nSector-based: These invest only in a particular sector Eg. IT, Telecom, Petrochemical, etc\n\nIndex-based: These invest only in the Index i.e. BSE Sensex, NSE Sensex. Their valuation is based on the value of the Index and not directly on any particular share.\n\nGrowth-fund:They generally invest in equity across sectors and try to maximise their gain wherever possible.\n\nMid-cap/ Small-cap Fund: They invest only in mid-cap or small-cap companies. Though the returns can be very high, so are the risks.\n\nBalance Fund: They invest both in debt and equity so as to provide good growth through equity and safety but low returns through debt.
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No idea, but be prepared to cough up some funds.
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You can invest in the etf gld. Each share is backed by some amount of real gold. \nhttp://anyonecaninvest.blogspot.com/