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While prudential regulation and supervision can never be perfect, extending such oversight to hedge funds and other unregulated institutions can still moderate the downsides.
While the G-20 should not give up on IMF-strengthening reforms, it should hedge its bets.
Although the film ultimately drew a large crowd, some prominent students chose to hedge their bets on the future by attending the competing event.
Indeed, President Jimmy Carter sent a memo to various US government departments instructing them to help in China’s rise – an approach that remains in effect today, even as America seeks to hedge against the risk that Chinese power gives rise to arrogance.
The Hedge Fund HegemonThe recent volatility in global capital markets should give pause to those who say German leaders, who have been arguing for greater transparency in global hedge funds, are just sore losers US and UK policymakers, in particular, say the German whining is nonsense, and that hedge funds, along with other new age financial entities such as private equity firms are key innovators in today’s, global economy.
Even we economists who believe that global financial innovation yields huge net benefits must admit that today’s hedge fund boom is becoming like the tech bubble.
An “Eddie” in Los Angeles sent me an email asking if I wanted to serve on the advisory board to his new hedge fund.
Of course, roughly 1,000 of the world’s 9,000 hedge funds went out of business last year.
If they lose, a long string of bankruptcies can cut deeply into banking systems that had generated huge profits by lending to these same hedge funds.
But if the yen appreciates sharply, as it easily could given Japan’s huge current account surplus, some hedge funds will suffer huge capital losses and the yen carry trade will implode.
So pressure outside the US and Britain to put the hedge fund industry on a tighter regulatory leash is hardly surprising.
The Germans, for example, want to reduce risk by forcing hedge funds to adhere to stricter reporting requirements.
Greater regulation would be a mistake, the report argues, because the global economy’s best defense against systemic risk is the exercise of common sense and “due diligence” by each and every person who invests or interacts with hedge funds.
Major hedge funds are presumably looking for ways to become bigger and take on “systemic importance.”
If the story is a hoax, the market will probably return to its earlier, fairly valued level, and the first mover will break even on its sales, and possibly profit from any position purchased as a hedge when the market was down.
Today, airlines, auto manufacturers, agricultural companies, media, investment banks, hedge funds, and much more has at some point been deemed too important to weather the free market on its own, receiving a helping hand from government in the name of the “public good.”
America’s current policy combines economic integration with a hedge against future uncertainty.
If the overall climate is one of distrust, what looks like a hedge to one side can look like a threat to the other.
The same logic applies to hedge funds: investors are typically not allowed to know how they work, and no warranties are offered.
He has no investment talent, but he knows about probabilities, and is running a hedge fund worth $100 million.
The bottom line is that hedge fund managers put their investors at risk, yet assume little risk themselves.
It is in the hedge fund industry’s interest to encourage greater regulation and transparency, lest a rising tide of failed funds cause investor confidence to collapse, putting both good and bad wizards out of business.
Physicists or engineers with doctorates can choose to develop complex mathematical models of market movements for investment banks or hedge funds, where they are known colloquially as “rocket scientists.”
Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, global investment banks, and hedge funds do not invest only in their own backyard.
Already the market is full of rumors that guaranteed bonuses are returning, that hedge funds are making double-digit returns, and that activity is reviving in the private equity market.
Moreover, the no-first-use pledge in the NPR contains an important hedge.
Gathered into pension, investment, and hedge funds, shareholders can place considerable pressure on companies to extract dividends, using performance-based bonuses to gain executive support for their preferred policies.
Proud Puerto Ricans retort that US banks and hedge funds were complicit by happily loading up on island debt.
And some of these managers – like hedge funds – are not available to average investors.
A sensible approach could be to hedge against intermediate-level shocks.
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