Pengelola investasi global utawi kanthi umum langkung dipuntepang kaliyan istilah hedge fund inggih punika merupakan kontrak investasi kolektif privat ingkang dipunkenakakén biaya imbal jasa berbasis kinerja (performance fee) lan limrahipun dipuntawarakén kanthi winates dhateng  investor kelas inggil.
Istilah hedge fund asalipun saking cara pengelolaan dana ingkang dipunpanggihakén déning Alfred Winslow Jones ing taun 1949. Strategi A.W. Jones' inggih punika ngélampahi penjualan kaliyan cara "short" atas saham wekdal punika piyambakipun pembelian saham sanèsipun, dados manawi makaten dipunlampahi lindung aji atas risiko pasar. Kathah "pangkalan investasi", "sindikat investasi", "kemitraan investasi" utawi "dana oportunis" ingkang gadhah karakteristik bènten-bènten ing donya modern punika ingkang sampun beroperasi sampun ngantos lami punika. Nanging Jones inggih punika ingkang kawiwitan ngélampahi kombinasi short selling, penggunaan daya ungkit (leverage), struktur kemitraan terbatas guna menghindari aturan, lan ngenakaken 20% imbalan insentif kanggé kompensasi atas peranipun minangka "mitra pengelola", dan olèh karenanya Jones diakui sebagai "bapak" (penemu) dari indhustri hedge fund.

Struktur hukum 
Struktur hukum dipun-ginakaken ing nemtokaken kewajiban perpajakan kanggé investor. Kathah hedge fund dipungadahi domisili hukum offshore ing nagara-nagara ingkang boten gegayutan saé kaliyan manajer, investor, utawi kagiyatan operasional saking investasi dana, kaliyan ancas supados pajeg namung dipunkenakaken ing investor lan boten dipunkenakaken pajeg tambahan ing dana ingkang dipunkelola.

Kangge para investor ingkang dados subjek pajeg ing Amérika, hedge fund asring dipundamel ing struktur "kemitraan terbatas" amargi jinis punika angsal perlakuan pajeg ingkang langkung nguntungaken ing Amérika. Manajer hedge fund (ingkang limrahipun ing wujud perusahaan) inggih punika "mitra umum" utawi manajer lan si investor inggih punika "mitra terbatas" utawi anggota. Dana mau dipunkempalaken ing suatu kemitraan utawi perusahaan dan "mitra umum" utawi manajer badhé nglampahi sedaya putusan investasi.
Lokasi onshore punika ya iku tebih saking ingkang wigati ing salebeting artian lokasi manajer hedge fund. Kota New York lan wewengkon Gold Coast ing Connecticut (limrahipun Stamford, Connecticut and Greenwich, Connecticut) ing panggènan utama saking para manajer hedge fund kaliyan jumlah ingkang kaping kalih ing jumlah hedge fund ingkang wonten ing London.

Peraturan offshore 
Kathah pusat keuangan offshore manawi njurung pendirian hedge fund kaliyan nawaraken pinten-pinten kombinasi layanan jasa, penerapan merdamel ingkang nguntungaken, peraturan ingkang bersahabat kaliyan donya bisnis kaliyan pusat keuangan ingkang utamanipun kalebet ing  Cayman Islands, Dublin, Luxembourg, British Virgin Islands lan Bermuda. Dipunperkirakaken Cayman Islands inggih punika pusat saking sawatawis 75% saking hedge fund donya, ingkang nguwasani pangsa pasar punika setengah saking indhustri hedge fund kaliyan aji dipunperkirakaken ngantos 1,225 trilyun USD .

Perusahaan manajemen hedge fund terkemuka 
Asring ugi dipuntepang dados perusahaan manajemen investasi alternatif.
 Amaranth Advisors
 BluMont Capital
 Bridgewater Associates
 Caxton Associates
 Citco Fund Services
 Centaurus Energy
 Citadel Investment Group
 D. E. Shaw & Co.
 Fortress Investment Group
 Goldman Sachs Asset Management
 Long Term Capital Management
 Man Group
 Pirate Capital LLC
 Renaissance Technologies
 SAC Capital Advisors
 Soros Fund Management
 SRR Capital LLC

Terminology 
 Commodity pool
 Derivatives market
 Investment fund
 Venture capital

Uga delengen 
 Reksadana
 Sekuriti
 Keuangan
 Pasar keuangan
 Derivatif

Cathetan suku

Waosan lanjut

Artikel panalitèn 
 Agarwal, V., and N.Y. Naik, 2000, Multi-Period Performance Persistence Analysis of Hedge Funds, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 3.
 Amenc, N., L. Martellini, and M. Vaissié, 2003, Benefits and Risks of Alternative Investment Strategies, Journal of Asset Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 96–118.
 Asness, C., R. Krail, and J. Liew, 2000, Do Hedge Funds Hedge?, Journal of Portfolio Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 6–19.
 Caslin, J. J., 2004, Hedge Funds, British Actuarial Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 441–521.
 De Souza, C., and S. Gokcan, 2004, Hedge Fund Investing: A Quantitative Approach to Hedge Fund Manager Selection and De-Selection, Journal of Wealth Management.
 Fransolet, L. and J. Loeys, 2004, Have Hedge Funds Eroded Market Opportunities?, Journal of Alternative Investments, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 10–33.
 Géhin, W., and M. Vaissié, 2005, Lighthouses Or Tricks Of Light? An In-Depth Look at Creating a Quality Hedge Fund Benchmark, The Journal of Indexes, May/June.
 Géhin, W., and M. Vaissié, 2006, The Right Place for Alternative Betas in Hedge Fund Performance: an Answer to the Capacity Effect Fantasy, The Journal of Alternative Investments, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 9–18.

Makalah panalitèn 
 Amenc, N., L. Martellini, and M. Vaissié, 2003, Indexing Hedge Fund Indexes, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, December.
 Amenc, N., and L. Martellini, 2003, Optimal Mixing of Hedge Funds with Traditional Investments, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, February. 
 Amenc, N., and M. Vaissié, 2006, Determinants of Funds of Hedge Funds’ Performance, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, February. 
 Géhin, W., 2006, The Challenge of Hedge Fund Performance Measurement: a Toolbox Rather Than a Pandora’s Box, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, December.
 Géhin, W., and M. Vaissié, 2004, Hedge Fund Indices: Investable, Non-Investable and Strategy Benchmarks, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper.
 Giraud, J.R., 2005, Mitigating Hedge Funds’ Operational Risks: Benefits and limitations of managed account platforms, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, December.
 Goltz, F., L. Martellini, and M. Vaissié, 2004, Hedge Fund Indices from an Academic Perspective: Reconciling Investability and Representativity, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, November.
 Martellini, L. and V. Ziemann, 2005, The Benefits of Hedge Funds in Asset Liability Management, EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center, Position Paper, October.

Buku 
 

 
 
 
 Ineichen, Alexander M., Asymmetric Returns-The Future of Active Asset Management, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, forthcoming. ISBN 0-470-04266-4
 
 
 
 
 Weiss, Gary, Wall Street Versus America: The Rampant Greed and Dishonesty That Imperil Your Investments, New York: Portfolio, 2006. Argues that hedge funds tend to underperform market indexes and are excessively hyped by the médhia. ISBN 1-59184-094-5

Penelitian akademik 
 Regional Percentile Return Rankings: Full Year 2006
 HedgeFund.net 
 EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre of the EDHEC Business School
 Hedge Fund Research Initiative of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management

Berita 
 Eurekahedge
 FINalternatives.com
 Hedge Fund Weblog
 HedgeCo.net
 HedgeFund.net
 FiNTAG Daily Hedge Fund News
 Hedge Fund Alert
 Hedge Funds Review
 Daily Hedge News

Indices 
 Eurekahedge Indices
 Hedge Fund Indices
 CSFB Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index
 HFRX Indices
 FTSE Hedge Indices
 DOW Jones Hedge Fund Indexes
 EDHEC Alternative Indexes
 EDHEC Investable Hedge Fund Indices
 HFRI Monthly Performance Indices
 HFN Real Time Averages
 Hedge Fund Consistency Index

Asosiasi 
 Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)
 the Hedge Fund Association (HFA)
 Managed Funds Association (MFA)
 Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA)

Pranala njaba 

 Harvard Business School's Baker Library Guide to Hedge Funds
 SECLaw.com's Hedge Fund Information Center
 Report of President's Working Group on Financial Markets
 Collection of Articles and PowerPoint Presentations on Hedge Fund Regulation
 Hedge Funds vs. Mutual Funds
 Hedge Funds 101: A Primer For Regulators; Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Nov. 30, 2004
 The long and short-The Guardian, September 24 2005-This article explains hedge funds in layman's terms, why they are of interest to the general reader and contains interviews with fund managers.
 What is a Hedge Fund? University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development
 Institutional Investors 2004 Ranking
 Hedge Funds: Risk and Return, study by Prof. Burton G. Malkiel critical of published hedge fund performance numbers
 http://www.hdmgmt.co.uk/gam.html Case Study of ISO 9001 investment process project at a significant hedge fund
 http://www.cisdm.org Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets at the University of Massachusetts is a research center specializing in hedge fund research
 How to Set Up Your Own Hedge Fund and Due Diligence, Disclosure and Fund Managers-by Hannah Terhune, JD LLM (Taxation, New York University)
 Economic powers to study growing influence of hedge funds-The International Herald Tribune, February 10 2007-This article explains how Hedge Funds are being scrutinized by National Governments for lack of regulation and have slowly become an international policy issue
 http://www.fondosdeinversionlibre.com Web specialized in Spanish Hedge Funds
 Glossary by Hedge Fund Alert

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