hedge fund

noun

: an investing group usually in the form of a limited partnership that employs speculative techniques in the hope of obtaining large capital gains

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However, hedge fund manager Eric Jackson sees big gains ahead for the quantum computing space. Fred Imbert,yun Li, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024 His hedge fund, Key Square Capital, also made money by betting that U.S. inflation in 2022 would prove longer lasting than the Federal Reserve had predicted. Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024 The outlook seemed to change five years ago, when Cohen, a longtime hedge fund manager, purchased the team for $2.4 billion. Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024 The identity of Apex’s owner is much less mysterious: The winning bidder was Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund manager and founder of the company Citadel. Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hedge fund 

Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hedge fund was in 1966

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“Hedge fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hedge%20fund. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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hedge fund

see fund sense 2

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