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Discover how quantitative analysis can illuminate hedge fund performance, offering insights into risk metrics and benchmarks ...

Discover how hedge funds use margin, credit lines, and derivatives to amplify returns. Understand both the potential gains and risks of leveraging these financial tools.

A hedge ratio is a financial metric investors use to measure the level of risk exposure covered by a hedge. This ratio plays a role in managing potential losses by indicating the proportion of a ...

Hedging has been around for quite some time. With time, businesses have largely become more sophisticated in using hedging as a strategy. Individual businesses can take different approaches to hedging ...

Last summer, a large hedge fund had a hunch: Lumber prices were about to crash because of excess inventories caused by a railway strike. Last summer, a large hedge fund had a hunch: Lumber prices were ...

Finance's biggest firms are considering how AI might impact jobs, how it could cut costs, and reduce "grunt work." ...

From left, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and SEC Chairman Gary Gensler participate in a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S.

At the beginning of 2022 I hit on a better way than going short to hedge my long positions: buying cheap put options on stocks I expected to tank. Following this strategy was very profitable at first, ...

Many businesses have a tipping point in terms of hedging costs. If costs are low, hedges are actively placed to protect margins and establish cash flow certainty. If costs are high, hedges may not be ...