Hedge funds: An industry reborn?

As a less daunting new breed of fund-of-funds comes to the fore, Charles Stanley’s Kris Barclay examines the pros and cons of their underlying strategies.

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As a less daunting new breed of fund-of-funds comes to the fore, Charles Stanley's Kris Barclay examines the pros and cons of their underlying strategies.

Markets ebb and flow, as do new investment ideas. Sometimes, the setting of a new trend might seem a new precedent but, all too often, it is just an old idea reinvigorated. Hedge funds are of that order. These abstract vehicles have been around for many a year and, of course, the basic and original premise was to hedge one's assets against the stock market falling. Long/short single strategy funds were popular through the 1970s and, indeed, today they can work well to hedge against a long-only portfolio of stocks. They came in and out of favour but grew very popular again through the ...

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