The Hedge Fund Hegemon

They started clipping the hedge.

Going down to the hedge.

The cat got through the hedge.

You've been working on the front hedge!

The iris hedge planted... next to our old home

I've done all I can do on the hedge

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Oh about the time you started working on the hedge I guess.

The idea is we create this long hedge of greenhouses facing the wind.

It was also extremely difficult to hedge against movements in totally exogenous factors.

Well if you're going to work on the hedge, why don't you go?

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

And so you can imagine, here I was an analyst at a hedge fund.

In those days nobody had bank accounts, or American Express cards, or hedge funds.

Countries with proven infrastructure and greater experience have started to move towards the establishment of secondary markets and the provision of means to hedge risks.

Though I did have to hide behind a hedge when I saw the vicar passing.

So pressure outside the US and Britain to put the hedge fund industry on a tighter regulatory leash is hardly surprising. The Germans, for example, want to reduce risk by forcing hedge funds to adhere to stricter reporting requirements.

Such investment is often undertaken with a view to minimizing the overall tax burden of a company and may also be undertaken to hedge against currency movements.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

The fixed exchange rate also provided an implicit assurance to market participants, who saw no need to hedge foreign borrowing.

The law or practice may hedge the right with so many conditions as to whittle it away or render it nugatory quot (E CN.4 Sub.2 220, paras. 16 and 17).

Hedge funds constitute only a small percentage of overall world financial markets, which, according to a recent study by the McKinnsey Global Institute, now exceed 120 trillion. And hedge funds, unlike banks, can leverage their bets, borrowing to take on assets many times the size of their capital base.

And part of what happens, I think, in your '20s and '30s, is you start to learn to hedge your happiness.

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns but the way of the righteous is made plain.

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns but the way of the righteous is made plain.

The recent volatility in global capital markets should give pause to those who say German leaders, who have been arguing for greater transparency in global hedge funds, are just sore losers US and UK policymakers, in particular, say the German whining is nonsense, and that hedge funds, along with other new age financial entities such as private equity firms are key innovators in today s, global economy.

Yes, all investors should have a very modest share of gold in their portfolios as a hedge against extreme tail risks. But other real assets can provide a similar hedge, and those tail risks while not eliminated are certainly lower today than at the peak of the global financial crisis.

Free, non transferable put options could be given to farmers to provide them with price certainty, while in turn Governments should hedge their exposure by selling futures or using over the counter derivatives contracts.

That is a surprising proposition, given that commodity bonds have an obvious latent market, rooted in real economic fundamentals. After all, steel companies have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of iron ore, just as airlines and utilities have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the price of oil.

The point is that in today s go go ultra high liquidity environment, Eddie was probably successful in raising money with similar techniques. Of course, roughly 1,000 of the world s 9,000 hedge funds went out of business last year.

But it is clear that financial firms compete with others for resources, and especially for skilled labor. Physicists or engineers with doctorates can choose to develop complex mathematical models of market movements for investment banks or hedge funds, where they are known colloquially as rocket scientists.

In 2004, a paper published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis showed that US senators who traded stocks beat the market by 12 per year. Since even the best hedge fund managers find it hard to achieve comparable results, we must conclude that these senators either are better than hedge fund managers, or that they benefit from privileged information.

Indeed, as was the case with the global financial crisis, investors seem unable to estimate, price, and hedge such tail risks properly. Only time will tell whether their current nonchalance constitutes another failure to assess and prepare for extreme events.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets. And some emerging market economies despite massive IMF support will experience a severe financial crisis with contagious effects on other economies.

China s central bank alone has around a trillion dollars. This gives them a capital base similar to the combined assets of all the world s major hedge funds.

Several speakers pointed out the importance of avoiding the accumulation of foreign currency denominated debt and borrowing in local currency as a hedge against foreign exchange rate risk.

I look around at my siblings and my cousins and as I said, there are a lot of us and I see teachers and musicians, hedge fund managers, designers.

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

It was suggested that developing country Governments could hedge their budget revenue's exposure to commodity price risk by rolling over derivatives instruments available on exchanges and over the counter markets.