You can sell futures, buy puts or sell calls on this market to hedge losses in the value of your home.
Lentz said Toyota would continue to move production to North America as a hedge against fluctuations in the value of the yen versus the dollar.
According to Hedge Fund Research, a research company, the value of assets in funds of hedge funds doubled last year.
Redemption battles between hedge funds and their investors have been a common feature of the credit crisis as hedge funds blocked cash outflows in the name of preserving value of the underlying assets.
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Many investments by hedge funds are hard to value because they are in assets, such as the debt of companies in bankruptcy proceedings, that are not traded and so have no market price.
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Fears of widespread redemptions and deepening losses spooked the mortgage securities markets Wednesday after Bear Stearns told investors in two troubled hedge funds that there was "very little value" left for them.
Folks tend to think gold is many things: a stable store of value, a hedge against inflation, a safe haven in times of trouble, a better alternative to fiat money.
Goldman is accused of misleading investors because it allegedly didn't let investors know that a hedge fund which was betting that sub-prime mortgages would fall in value was helping to pick the securities that made up the portfolio.
Investing in Novelis could give it a technology edge, and having value-added products in its portfolio would provide a hedge against volatile aluminum prices.
To make matters worse, plans are increasing their high risk bets by loading up on hard-to-value assets, such as private equity and hedge funds, in a desperate attempt to close their funding gaps.
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Here is how the popularity of GLD has depressed the value of gold itself: Hedge funds are among the largest shareholders in GLD.
It will likely lose again this year with a possible further writedown of the value of its 15% stake in U.S. hedge fund Fortress Investment Group.
That in turn, helped fuel a 116% increase since 2007 in the price of gold, the classic hedge against inflation, because its value tends to increase as the dollar weakens.
The following Monday the hedge fund shorted 4.5 million Elan shares, betting the stock would decline in value, the complaint alleges.
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The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
Still, some mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds have at times simply seemed to use subjective assumptions in figuring out the value for assets for which there is no market.
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Two of its own hedge funds went belly up in the summer of 2007, laden by mortgage-backed securities that plummeted in value.
As recently as September, the head of this hedge fund, Christian Leone has been an active shareholder in the Charter Hall REIT in an attempt to unlock value for shareholders.
While some analysts have downgraded the stock in recent weeks, David Einhorn, president and manager of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, actually sniffs value and has taken a long position.
Seth Klarman of Baupost Group, and value-meister Michael Price, of MFP Investors hedge fund made sizable additions to their Hewlett Packard positions in the second quarter.
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