Sentences with phrase «in hedge against»

If you're more interested in a hedge against the U.S. dollar or to combat inflation, then gold might serve as the more appropriate option.

They offer diversified portfolios of bonds, each with a built - in hedge against interest rate risk.

IGHG also includes a portfolio of short U.S. Treasury futures as a built - in hedge against the effects of rising interest rates.

Today's post is about one issue I raised in the post last month: What asset classes — if any — are useful in hedging against inflation?

I'm less interested in hedging against inflation and more interested in getting the highest return while I'm still employed / unretired.

He highlighted ProShares Investment Grade — Interest Rate Hedged ETF (IGHG) and ProShares High Yield — Interest Rate Hedged ETF (HYHG), which have built - in hedges against the effects of rising rates.

Whether adjusting for economic announcements such as FOMC meetings, earning seasons or non-farm payroll numbers, or guarding against unexpected macro events, futures and options on futures can play a valuable role in hedging against risk and carefully calibrating market exposure.

Not exact matches

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

With geopolitical tensions in places like Ukraine, emerging market selloffs in countries like Turkey and U.S. stocks» choppy start to 2014, more investors are seeking out hard assets as an opportunity to diversify a portfolio, hedge against inflation and pursue a solid return in something unrelated to the equity markets.

David Ganek, whose hedge fund Level Global shut down in the wake of an insider trading investigation, said his lawsuit against prosecutors is about «transparency» and «accountability.»

NEW YORK, May 3 - Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

While we'd like to keep as much money as possible in the business to hedge against a downturn, we find that we're hindered by our corporate form and tax status.

To hedge against this risk, many businesses are setting up licensed subsidiaries in other EU countries.

The stock market's slump that month prompted the largest one - day spike in the Cboe Volatility Index (known as the VIX), as traders who had bought products designed to profit off a subdued VIX hedged against further losses.

Hedge funds such as Elliott Management Corp and D.E. Shaw are still looking for up to $ 5 billion ($ 5.6 billion) in damages in civil suits against Porsche SE, which is now only a holding company that owns a majority stake in the VW group.

Goldman Sachs» derivatives strategy team pointed out that a trade hedging against a moderate decline in the S&P 500 is reasonably priced.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

Matthews believes it was «an opportunity that came along» rather than a hedge against a possible downturn in the market.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

Buying an annuity — a lump sum you pay to an insurance company in exchange for a lifetime income — is the ultimate hedge against longevity.

In theory, getting a fixed rate mortgage to hedge against inflation isn't a bad idea.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

You make extra money and use talents that are dormant in your 9 - 5, plus you hedge against an uncertain economy.

Feeling intentionally misled, Principal filed a lawsuit against the hedge fund for as much as $ 66 million in damages.

«Managers are using short positions in these stocks to hedge their portfolios against large negative market moves.»

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

Elliott does not seem to share those qualms: On at least three occasions, according to both court testimony and the accounts of seven people who spoke with Fortune, children of people facing the hedge fund's attack have been pulled into the fray in some way, in an apparent bid to gain either information on or leverage against their parents.

Some investors, recalling how a few bold hedge funds became rich and famous by betting against the U.S. housing market, now are attempting to repeat the trick in Canada.

Sohn is the most widely anticipated hedge - fund event of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

It would acquire natural gas wells to hedge against a spike in gas prices (unnecessary, as it turned out).

It bought a small refinery in Great Falls, Mont., to hedge against a huge spread between bitumen and synthetic crude oil prices.

Meanwhile, trade in other alternative assets — such as fine art, wine and potentially, RVs — is less liquid, but has been favored by some as a hedge against volatility in the markets.

When Comcast initially invested $ 200 million in BuzzFeed in 2015, through its broadcast subsidiary NBCUniversal, it wasn't clear exactly what the cable conglomerate was looking for from its investment in the digital - only startup, except perhaps a hedge against the disruption of television and other forms of traditional media.

If you follow this strategy, Betterment advises investing at least 30 percent more than the three to six months of expenses you would typically put in the emergency fund to hedge against market turmoil.

Not only are health stocks seen as a good hedge against market volatility, interest in the category is growing among consumers.

Wilmot runs through a bunch of investment strategies that might see renewed interest in light of these financial conditions, ranging from equity funds that offer some sort of hedge against volatility to big - data - driven quant funds.

Consider this conundrum in the gold market: The metal has traditionally been a good hedge against inflation, but it hasn't seen much demand lately even in the face of rising inflation fears.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

(Bloomberg)-- An investment fund that's seeking a payout from the Cuban government on more than $ 1.3 billion in defaulted debt and back interest has hired the lawyer who won a settlement for hedge funds in a long - running legal battle against Argentina.

And now that our careers are going, we're looking at maxing out two traditional 401Ks and two Roth IRAs this year, and we see the Roth IRA portion as a small hedge against rising future tax rates (or what I think is a bit more likely to happen — tax brackets that don't keep pace with inflation, so keep sucking in more and more people to higher brackets).

That makes it a seemingly small adversary, given the battle Herbalife is waging against hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who has gone so far as to say that Herbalife is a «criminal organization» in his $ 1 billion short bet against it.

In fact, we have several asset management styles that compete directly against hedge funds.

Factom will be using Tether as a hedging mechanism against Bitcoin's infamous volatility in the company's upcoming sale of its Factom software.

Investors hedging against a sharp fall in equity markets in the coming 12 weeks has also reached its highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bank said.

Gold, a hedge against inflation and a non-correlated asset class to stocks and bonds, is a core holding in all portfolios.

In 1989, he acquired $ 350 million of preferred stock in US Airways to protect the company against a hostile takeover from hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, reports ForbeIn 1989, he acquired $ 350 million of preferred stock in US Airways to protect the company against a hostile takeover from hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, reports Forbein US Airways to protect the company against a hostile takeover from hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, reports Forbes.

While government bonds currently produce little in the way of income, government bonds have been providing a hedge against equity risk.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.