Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hedge fund

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: hedge -fund
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Early hedge funds hedged against risk.

Inflected Forms

hedge funds (plural)

Synonyms

hedgefund

Questions

What does hedge fund mean?: A mostly unregulated investment fund that invests large amounts of money using speculative methods.
Where does hedge fund come from?: Early hedge funds hedged against risk.

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