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AFAIK hedge funds are basically anything you want them to be. You could be hedging public equities, shorting them all, going long on them all, or investing in c

• caminante 5y ago
  The parent is responding to the grandparent comment > Generally hedge funds are private investments. I take your point that HFs come in many flavors. And, "private investments" is ambiguous. Though, in "general", the parent is right to say the claim (above) is not accurate. I think of HFs as "generally" playing with securitized, public assets, regardless of investment mandate.
• govg 5y ago
  Yup, you're right. Nowadays a "hedge" fund is simply some entity that manages money and dabbles in the dark arts to generate outlandish returns (or collapses in a spectacular fashion). I was just refuting the initial assertion that hedge funds make private investments, since most of the traditional "hedge funds" don't touch private markets, and work in public markets.