Meanings
plural hedge funds
- businessA mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.
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Hedge funds date to 1949, when Alfred Winslow Jones, a writer at Fortune, opened a private investment firm using sixty thousand dollars he had raised from friends and forty thousand he had saved. To boost his returns, Jones borrowed heavily and bought stocks he liked “on margin”—a practice that had been discredited in the late nineteen-twenties.
2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Early hedge funds hedged against risk.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian хедж фонд
- хедж фонд (hedž fond)unregistered investment fund
Chinese Mandarin 對沖基金 /对冲基金
- 對沖基金 /对冲基金 (duìchōng jījīn)unregistered investment fund
Dutch hedgefonds
- hedgefondsunregistered investment fund
Finnish hedge-rahasto, vipurahasto
- hedge-rahastounregistered investment fund
- vipurahastounregistered investment fund
- suojausrahastounregistered investment fund
French fonds spéculatif
- fonds spéculatifunregistered investment fund
German Hedgefonds
- Hedgefondsunregistered investment fund
Icelandic vogunarsjóður
- vogunarsjóðurunregistered investment fund
Japanese ヘッジファンド
- ヘッジファンド (hejji fando)unregistered investment fund
Norwegian hekkefond
- hekkefondunregistered investment fund
Russian хедж-фонд
- хедж-фонд (xedž-fond)unregistered investment fund
Spanish fondo de cobertura
- fondo de coberturaunregistered investment fund
Swedish hedgefond
- hedgefondunregistered investment fund
Cite this entry
hedge fund. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hedge%20fund
“hedge fund.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hedge%20fund. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hedge fund,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hedge%20fund.
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