Long / short equity — Long/short equity is an investment strategy generally associated with hedge funds. It involves buying long equities that are expected to increase in value and selling short equities that are expected to decrease in value. OverviewTypically equity … Wikipedia
Long/Short Equity — A hedge fund strategy that involves buying certain stocks long and selling others short. There usually isn t a restriction on the country that the stocks trade in either. This type of hedge fund basically has free reign to buy or sell what it… … Investment dictionary
short — noun One who has sold futures contracts or plans to purchase a cash commodity. verb Selling futures contracts or initiating a cash forward contract sale without offsetting a particular market position. Chicago Board of Trade glossary Someone who… … Financial and business terms
Short — One who has sold a contract to establish a market position and who has not yet closed out this position through an offsetting purchase; the opposite of a long position. Related: Long. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. short short 1 … Financial and business terms
Long-Term Capital Management — (LTCM) was a U.S. hedge fund which failed spectacularly in the late 1990s, leading to a massive bailout by other major banks and investment houses. [cite book |title=The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World |last=Greenspan |first=Alan… … Wikipedia
Long-Term Capital Management — Rechtsform Investmentgesellschaft Gründung 1994 (Auflösung 1998) Sitz Greenwich, New York Leitung Robert C. Merton, Myron Samuel Scholes … Deutsch Wikipedia
Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender … Wikipedia
fund — A fiscal and accounting entity with a self balancing set of accounts in which cash and other financial resources, all related liabilities and residual equities, or balances, and charges therein, are recorded and segregated to carry on specific… … Financial and business terms
Short code — This article is about the mobile phone telephone number. For the early computer programming language, see Short Code (computer language). Short codes (also known as short numbers) are special telephone numbers, significantly shorter than full… … Wikipedia
Fund of funds — A fund of funds (FoF) is an investment fund that uses an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in shares, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as… … Wikipedia
