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Hedge funds : Hedge Funds Intro

Sal Khan

Abstract

Hedge funds have absolutely nothing to do with shrubbery. Their name comes from the fact that early hedge funds (and some current ones) tried to hedge their exposure to the market (so they could, in theory, do well in an up or down market as long as. Source: Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. All Khan Academy content is available for free at www.khanacademy.org. Khan Academy does not endorse the World Public Library.

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