Hedge Funds Terms

  1. Investment Vehicle

  2. Investor Shares

  3. iTraxx LevX Indexes

  4. Jensen's Measure

  5. Jerome Kerviel

  6. Jim Cramer

  7. Julian Robertson

  8. Late-Day Trading

  9. Layered Fees

  10. Legging In

  11. Loan Credit Default Swap (LCDS)

  12. Lock-Up Period

  13. Long Hedge

  14. Long-Term Capital Management - LTCM

  15. Long/Short Equity

  16. Long/Short Fund

  17. Longevity Derivatives

  18. Lost Decade

  19. Macro Manager

  20. Managed Account

  21. Management Buy-In - MBI

  22. Management Fee

  23. Manager Universe (Benchmark)

  24. MAR Ratio

  25. Market Neutral

  26. Market Neutral Fund

  27. Master Fund

  28. Master Trust

  29. Master-Feeder Fund

  30. Merger Arbitrage

  31. Michael Steinhardt

  32. Mini Madoff

  33. Minimum Investment

  34. Momentum Fund

  35. Mountain Range Options

  36. MSCI Inc

  37. Multi-Advisor Fund

  38. Mutual Fund Timing

  39. Myron S. Scholes

  40. Nano Cap

  41. Natural Hedge

  42. Net Short

  43. Noncommercial Trader

  44. Nonfarm Payroll

  45. Odd Date

  46. Offering Memorandum

  47. Offering Price

  48. Over-Hedging

  49. Participatory Notes

  50. Peak-To-Valley Drawdown

  51. Perfect Hedge

  52. Performance Fee

  53. Performance-Based Compensation

  54. Plaza Accord

  55. Ponzi Mania

  56. Pre-IPO Placement

  57. Prime Brokerage

  58. Private Banking

  59. Private Investment Fund

  60. Profits Interest

  61. Property Derivative

  62. Qualified Eligible Participant - QEP

  63. Quant Fund

  64. Quantitative Trading

  65. Redemption Suspension

  66. Relative Return

  67. Retail Fund

  68. Retrocession

  69. Risk Arbitrage

  70. Robert C. Merton

  71. Roll Yield

  72. Run On The Fund

  73. Salomon Brothers

  74. Sanford J. Grossman

  75. Secondary Mortgage Market

  76. Securities Lending

  77. Shadow Banking System

  78. Side Pocket

  79. Sideways Market / Sideways Drift

  80. Silver ETF

  81. Smart Money

  82. Sophisticated Investor

  83. Sovereign Wealth Fund - SWF

  84. Speculation Index

  85. Spice Trader

  86. Square Position

  87. Sterling Ratio

  88. Sub-Advised Fund

  89. Subprime Meltdown

  90. Survivorship Bias

  91. Survivorship Bias Risk

  92. Syndicated Loan

  93. T. Boone Pickens

  94. Tail Risk

  95. Tainted Alpha

  96. Taking The Street

  97. Temporary New Account

  98. Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

  99. Total Return Swap

  100. Two And Twenty

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