Sentences with phrase «of hedging your bets»

It's essentially a game of hedging your bets.

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

And even if you have the right horse, what makes you think that jolly old Jehovah will put aside his wrath when he hears that your «faith» was just a matter of hedging bets?

In the interest of hedging our bets — and because it's just a great excuse for a non-Christmas-themed party — why not throw a shindig celebrating the End of the Mayan Calendar?

And, union giving shows a clear pattern of hedged bets.

Now that Labour appears to have come down firmly on the side of a softer Brexit, after months of hedging its bets, there's a renewed focus at Westminster on whether Tory rebels can defeat Theresa May and keep the UK in the customs union.

However, putting 25 people in a CT scanner eight times is probably not inexpensive and perhaps they sort of hedged their bets by studying an upper and a lower body intervention.

This is not a stockmarket, so try to avoid the tendency of hedging your bets by running with multiple dates at once.

The Match Group are a perfect example of hedging your bets in this industry.

Adding all these extra characters seems to be creator Tad Quill's way of hedging his bets that the show might meaningfully evolve, if given the chance.

Instead of hedging their bets and only getting digital editions of the most popular titles (which are then always unavailable to most patrons), they can offer access to an entire library and not only allow multiple people to read the same book at once but also avoid paying for unpopular titles.

I was already invested in the BlackBerry infrastructure and decided to show support for the new device, while at the same time knowing that the ability to use Android apps was a way of hedging my bet.

Apple's interest in PlayNitride's facility could simply be a matter of hedging its bets, or it could be an indication that Apple will need to ramp up production in the near future.

Not exact matches

He and his colleagues at Edward Jones are hedging their bets, expecting at least some volatility in the likelihood that a few of Trump's economic initiatives underwhelm investors» lofty expectations.

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

A sizable contingent of hedge fund managers are shorting Tesla, or betting that its share price will fall, including some who have also presented on stage at the Sohn Conference, including famed short - seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates, who has called Tesla the «anti-Amazon.»

For traders at a little - known Denver hedge fund who saw it coming, it was the score of a lifetime — a $ 17.5 million payday on a $ 200,000 bet.

However, they hedge their bets ever so slightly, whether that means cultivating their networks and looking for additional opportunities, even when things seem to be going great — or even launching a full - blown side business or second (or third) source of income.

«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.

And he says that the hedge fund industry's bets on the ever - embattled Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a mistake of epic proportions, rivaling the losses from Enron and other spectacular failures.

How's Buffett doing with his bet that the S&P will beat any portfolio of hedge funds?

If you're a fan of a team with a fringe chance of making the playoffs, consider the prudent thought of placing an emotional hedge bet, so that if your postseason hopes crash and burn on Sunday you'll at least make a profit off of your misery.

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.

Glenview's Larry Robbins also lost more than $ 23 million in his hedge fund, as his pro-Obamacare bets on healthcare companies turned sour: Hospital Corporation of America (hca) stock dropped 11 %, losing him $ 127 million; and Tenet Healthcare (thc) stock plummeted 25 %, taking another $ 90 million from Glenview's portfolio.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

Out of money, Shkreli's hedge fund stopped trading the same month of the failed Orexigen bet, the charges state.

Even CNN hedged its bets ahead of Tuesday's debate.

Beer - maker Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) is hedging its bets for the future by recruiting promising leaders straight out of college, including foreign nationals while they are living outside their home countries.

I spend a lot of time talking clients «off the ledge» when they'd like to move all of their money into one outperforming asset class, place a large bet on hedging strategies for a pending correction they see coming or suddenly want to get out of the market altogether and «drop anchor» for fear of pending scary dives in the markets.

Buffet said the performance of the funds of hedge funds leaves «no doubt that Girls Inc. of Omaha, the charitable beneficiary I designated to get any bet winnings I earned, will be the organization eagerly opening the mail next January.»

Instead of buying a specific asset class like a company's stock or a currency, futures and options contracts allow traders to profit from their bets on future prices and to hedge losses on what they already own.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

In addition to hedging Disney's bets, Iger's comments also serve as a very obvious warning shot across the bow of cable companies and other distributors.

Rather, they like to hedge their forecast «bets» by giving a probability of a binary outcome.

By launching many such pilot projects you both hedge your bets and create a myriad of small learning experiences for yourself, which helps you course correct and figure out what you really want and the right path to get you there.

No one can predict how tax rates will change in the future so putting aside some money in each form of an IRA and a 401 (k) may help you hedge your bets.

If you hedge half of your foreign holdings back into Canadian dollars, you can reduce your risk without making a specific bet on which way a currency will go.

This is where most news outlets sit today, still — they've come to understand that bitcoin is a burgeoning technology that has interest and investment, and they are covering it a bit more often, but when they do, they are careful to hedge their bets by including the downside of, or skepticism around, any news or investment in the space.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

This is a large part of what makes precious metals a safe bet for hedging a portfolio.

Kalla points out that as the ranks of hedge funds investing in crypto offerings have grown, the opportunity to place big bets has shrunk.

As a long - time advocate of passive investing in low - fee index funds (in fact, he's on his way to win a million - dollar bet on an index fund), Buffett also has some strong opinions on the value of high - fee investment structures like hedge funds and mutual funds.

To truly hedge your portfolio against all kinds of risk, a fully diversified precious metals allocation is your best bet.

«This was after all the headlines are saying hedge funds have never bet this much on rising oil prices, in the history of oil trading.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

First: Elevation has hedged its risky strategy of putting so much money behind a few bets by concocting a complex system of puts and convertible issues that limit the downside of its worse deals.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government reined in new spending in a wait - and - see budget that touts support for ordinary Canadians but hedged its bets in the face of a still weak global economy and unpredictable fallout from the Donald Trump administration.

In the bet, Buffett picked a Vanguard fund that tracks the S&P 500, while Protégé Partners, a firm that puts clients» money into funds made up of hedge funds, took the other side of the bet with five of its funds.