Can governments invest into hedge funds?
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No. That's called a conflict of interests. If the\ngovernment invested into the private sector then they\nwould pass laws that would favor some companies over\nothers. That would stifle free enterprise.
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you have to go to the ministry of investment there
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try bloomberg.com get into hedge fund\n\nkinda tricky...find someone who works for some consultancy firm who have full access to bloomberg.com they can help ya
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Government Bonds are issued by the US Treasury.  The treasury can print money so you can always be assured that you will receive greenbacks when you redemn your bonds.  The problem for investers is that the US Government is deeply in debt and has an obligation to pay Social Security and Medicare that it can't meet without borrowing more.    In order to pay future obligations the US government will have to pay higher and higher interest rates.  The higher rates on bonds issued in the future will diminish the market value of the bonds issued at low rates in the past.  If you hold your US bonds until matuity you will receive US currency for them - but what will it buy?
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The hedge fund guy said it straight.  Your question can't be answered.\n\nIf you told me your time horizon, your risk tolerance, your expected return, and what else you have invested, then we could talk.
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What are you talking about.  I have I bonds.  They haven't destroyed my trust.  They're not meant for you to make a lot of money.  They are a government investment.
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Hedge funds can be a variety of things.  Simple diversification can be a hedge.  \n\nDow Jones Averages used to be a hedge.  If the Industrials were down, the surely the Transportations or Utilities (a couple of other, previously indispensible pieces) were up.  Similarly, Standard & Poors or the Fortune 500 list are diversifications to hedge against market downturns.  The S&P 500 is often listed by sector, sorted by similar types of businesses.  This way you can identify, say, just banks, or just airlines.  Right now, if you put money just into their banks and none in the airlines, your portfolio would perform better than the average investor.  Right now oil is making profits by the barrel but losing stock value.  Right now, car companies are losing money and they are also declining in value, so mixing and matching gets complicated.  Fully half of the stocks are up and the rest are down at any one given moment.  You may lose some money on some, but won't on all.\n\nThat is the hedging thing.  If I think domestic car sales will go down, I can go short on GM & Ford while going long on Toyota and Honda.  I can buy short term wheat and sell long term corn.  There are a variety of mixes that are the financial equivalent of getting sweet and sour pork at a Chinese restaurant.  It is using the markets to have your foot on the gas and the other on the brake.  It doesn't sound very smart, and sometimes is downright stupid, some hedge funds have lost lots and lots of money.  Our government wants only very well "qualified" people to participate, as in they have loads of money to lose.  Yet, just as some can lose big time (what if both GM AND Honda go down?, what if both wheat AND corn go down?), they can also win in really big ways.\n\nIt doesn't have to be short-sales and derivatives like options and futures contracts, but it can.  It could also simply be that with summer fewer people will buy coffee and more will buy coca cola, so I reposition my speculations/investments according to the opportunities.
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A capital guarenteed portfolio sounds like government bonds and the ones I looked at are mostly bond funds.
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Yes, anyone can. Just make sure that your are working with a good brokerage company or a good website like ameritrade.
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Buy shares in different public companies
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Yes, especially in Brazil. But be aware that the risk of international investing is higher than investing in US equities, although the reward can be higher. There are several options- mutual funds, individual securities (riskier), and several ETF's, such as ILF or EWZ.
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Whenever the government decides it is. You have no right to receive this money, anyway. It is the government's to spend, not yours.
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a hedge fund is using commodities contracts or futures to offset possible dips and rises in the price. the most common and original use was to offset risk for farmers. if i am growing wheat and i think the price will drop i but the equivilent number of contracts to lock in a profit or reasonable gain. the problem i see with them is that they also stop you from making a large profit. if you have locked in a price and it rises then you cannot redo your hedge with out losing the previous and gaining more risk.\nnow companies use it to lock in other prices like oil, pladium, copper, tin, gasoline, interest rates, pretty much anything that you use a lot of you can set your price with a contract as long as it is traded.\nthe real thing that pushes this market is speculators who are willing to accept the other side of the contract, the sell to the buy, they are willing to take the risk that the other party is trying to offset. so to answer the question finally.\nhedge funds mitigate risk by offsetting price fluctuations but only work with another party willing to take that risk on. the effect on the economy is a stabilizing effect where highs and lows are clipped for large companies making it easier to forecast and project growth and make it easier for companies to move forward with less risk to the bottom line. this also spreads the risk around so that if there is a shock to a commodity the risk that is faced by a company is lessened by the hedge fund. and the economy will not rise to fast as a hedge fund will also stop large profits from being realized. hope that helps.
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It depends. Please give the details of the INVESTment OPPORTUNITYies for my PERUSEal and EVALUATEion. You can e-mail me at: romy472000@yahoo.com. thanks.
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Actually it is the law that created them.  By defining who was and was not an accredited investor and by defining the rules under the Investment Company Act, it created a need for people who could skirt the rules of the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisors Act.  Hedge funds, generally speaking, operate outside the disclosure and protection laws (except for true fraud).  Still because they are outside the disclosure laws, true fraud may be impossible to detect.  And some forms of fraud in the common sense understanding are written into the contracts and so are not fraud in the legal sense.  It is fraud if they illegally cheat you not if you contract away common sense rules.  Some of the abuses should be reigned in, but they cannot be because they are legal and contractual rights of the managers.
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You can invest in the etf gld. Each share is backed by some amount of real gold. \nhttp://anyonecaninvest.blogspot.com/
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Simply...yes.\n\nIn fact, there is a whole sector of mutual funds called "life-cycle" funds that invest your money acorss a wide range of mutual fonds and bonds and cash depending on when you want the investment to mature. \n\nAdditionally, there are mutual funds that invest in "open-ended" funds that are the precursors to ETF. Speaking of ETF, those are mutual funds that other mutual funds can, and do, invest in. \n\nOn a contrary note, there are a few restrictions on exactly what funds a mutual fund can invest in competing fund families. That is...Fidelity Contrafund is limited in what it can invest into Vangaurd or Van Campen...(only examples).\n\nHope this helps!!