"I'm sorry you had a bad experience," he said, "because I like to think of fund-raising as friend-raising".
Should we take the mulch off again and allow the garden to dry out a bit? A. Think about straw mulch the way you're supposed to think of stock funds: Apply the money wisely, then leave it alone.
That is, they must earn a minimum amount of money annually and have a net worth of more than $1 million, along with a significant amount of investment knowledge.You can think of hedge funds as mutual funds for the super rich.They are similar to mutual funds in that investments are pooled and professionally managed, but differ in that the fund has far more flexibility in its investment strategies.
"You have to think of the fund as something of an insurance policy for the member countries," she added.
We like to think of mutual fund managers as seasoned pros who safeguard our wealth and fatten its bounty.
You can think of hedge fund administrators as somewhat akin to school administrators responsible for preparing report cards that are sent home to parents.
Think of these funds as sort of a TARP for the arts crowd, only with much smaller dollar figures, and with little or no help from Washington.
But if you think of federal funding as the government buying useful research, as opposed to using research grants as academic welfare, endowment size is incidental.
At the foundation for 20 years, she had come to think of its funds as her money, with Whitney a cheeky interloper.
Whereas average investors think of the funds as a cheap way to invest in an index, active managers are using them to take positions just the same as any active manager.
It may help to think of hedge-fund managers as an army of men — and they are mostly men — walking down the street with dustbusters, trying to suck up cash and assets from every nook and cranny in the universe.
