In terms of assets, hedge funds are now about a quarter the size of commercial banks, and about a fifth as large as mutual funds.
Finally, the objective of futures market in terms of price discovery and hedging against future risks seems to be satisfied for potato futures.
"Europe is just starting to explode in terms of Internet IPOs," the hedge fund manager said from his South African home, where he was preparing for business trip to the Far East.
"But we're certainly thinking about where that goes later in terms of secondary markets, derivatives, options, hedges, all the rest".
"We're too small to hedge our risks in terms of foreign exchange".
With films such as Tintin, the third Ice Age and the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean pulling in close to 80% of receipts outside the US, blockbusters increasingly hedge their bets in terms of their settings, so they can appeal across as many markets as possible.
Lots of hedge funds think in terms of milliseconds.But some commentators take the opposite tack, arguing that history is subject to "long waves" that cause economies and markets to change direction at regular intervals.
Rich-world corporate bonds outperformed both equity markets and hedge funds in terms of dollar returns.
We show in Section "Robust good-deal hedging" that the robust good-deal hedging strategy (bar {phi }) can be obtained in terms of the control process of a 2BSDE describing the good-deal valuation bound π u, and that the hedging strategy is robust with respect to combined uncertainty.
