Sentences with phrase «funds take a short position»

It will take short positions primarily in domestic equity securities of companies (i) listed on the S&P 500 Total Return ® Index (the «S&P 500») or (ii) that have market capitalization above $ 4 billion at the time the fund takes the short position.

Inverse funds take a short position in an asset class like stocks and profit from bear markets.

Not exact matches

While he's long on most of the equity in the fund, he'll take a short position on sectors or securities that seem overvalued.

Short - seller Jim Chanos announced on CNBC on Wednesday a new short position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long posiShort - seller Jim Chanos announced on CNBC on Wednesday a new short position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long posishort position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long position.

Hedge - fund manager Doug Kass has taken a short position on the fast - growing online retailer, saying government antitrust concerns will erode its value.

Star hedge fund manager Bill Ackman took a short position last December.

In response, a global macro manager may have taken a long position in a MSCI World Index exchange traded fund (ETF) and a short position in a MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF.8

When employing the long - short equity strategy, hedge fund managers take a long position in a stock they think will outperform, while shorting stock3 that they believe will underperform.

«The SEC alleges that one of the world's largest hedge funds, Paulson & Co., paid Goldman Sachs to structure a transaction in which Paulson & Co. could take short positions against mortgage securities chosen by Paulson & Co. based on a belief that the securities would experience credit events.»

The Fund pursues its investment objective by taking long and short positions in equity securities.

Net exposure takes into account the benefits of offsetting long and short positions and is calculated by subtracting the percentage of the Fund's equity capital invested in short sales from the percentage of its equity capital used for long positions.

The funds seek to hedge against the negative impact of currency risk by taking short positions in currency forward contracts.

Long / short equity funds take a hedged net long position on stocks, which reduces volatility.

These funds typically take a short position on the U.S. dollar like the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN), profiting from a fall in the value of the dollar relative to other currencies.

These join the two - year - old iShares Broad Commodity Index Fund (CBR), which uses a managed futures strategy without the short positions: the fund will either take a long position in a given commodity or none at Fund (CBR), which uses a managed futures strategy without the short positions: the fund will either take a long position in a given commodity or none at fund will either take a long position in a given commodity or none at all.

Or do fund managers pool money from all investors and then take one giant short position in the market?

Taking long or short positions in futures contracts, for a corporation or a well - endowed investment fund with lots of foreign exposure, does not cost a lot.

Many funds try to capitalize on both short term and long term returns — investing in everything from private start - up companies, to taking short positions in publicly traded companies.

He invests in commodities through a diversified fund that can take long and short positions and in hedged - equity mutual funds that try to use option strategies to cushion market hits.

They are allowed to take leveraged long and short positions in asset classes that other types of regulated funds simply can not touch.

A fund that is designed to hedge away market risk by taking hedging or short positions against long positions in an attempt to generate alpha or excess return without market risk

The Fund primarily takes long and short positions in securities that are highly correlated to its applicable market based on long, intermediate, and short term trends.

The Fund primarily takes long and short positions in securities that are highly correlated to major US equity indices based on long, intermediate, and short term trends.

Sometimes, new fund managers will get lucky by taking positions in smaller firms with more volatile stock prices, or they may pick some larger capitalization firms whose stocks might appreciate dramatically in the short run.

Hedge fund: Private investment partnership (for US investors) or an offshore investment corporation (for non US tax exempt investors) in which the general partner has made substantial personal investment, and whose offering memorandum allows for the fund to take both long and short positions, use leverage and derivatives, and invest in many markets.

He reentered the hedge fund business by founding Pershing Square in 2003 and taking a new short position against MBIA, purchasing credit default swaps that would rise in price if his predictions came true.