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A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, [1] many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts.
The United States remains the largest center of investment with US-based funds managing around 70% of global assets at the end of 2011. [160] As of April 2012, there were approximately 3,990 investment advisers managing one or more private hedge funds registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission . [ 164 ]
Hedging is an investment strategy that is simple in concept but that can be difficult in execution. The primary uses of hedging strategies are to either lock in a profit or to protect against a...
It was also in this timeframe that the capital markets would start to open up again for private equity transactions. During the 1990-1993 period, Chemical Bank established its position as a key lender to private equity firms under the auspices of pioneering investment banker, James B. Lee, Jr. (known as Jimmy Lee, not related to Thomas H. Lee ...
] As late as the 1980s, Lester Thurow, a noted economist, decried the inability of the financial regulation framework in the United States to support merchant banks. US investment banks were confined primarily to advisory businesses, handling mergers and acquisitions transactions and placements of equity and debt securities. Investment banks ...
Many casual followers of the energy space fear the words "hedging" and "energy company" thanks to Enron. In reality, hedging oil and gas production can be a very effective tool for a company, and ...
The Federal Reserve may be open to the possibility of hiking interest rates further, but one financial risk strategist says a slowdown of the economy and higher debt levels might cause America’s ...
Michael Milken, the man credited with creating the market for high yield "junk" bonds and spurring the LBO boom of the 1980s. The beginning of the first boom period in private equity would be marked by the well-publicized success of the Gibson Greetings acquisition in 1982 and would roar ahead through 1983 and 1984 with the soaring stock market driving profitable exits for private equity ...