| It's easy to describe what an unhealthy risk is: scuba diving with a Great White Shark while holding a raw, rib-eye steak in your hand, for example. But it's a little harder to discern what a healthy risk is. Some seem to think safety in numbers amounts to a healthy risk -- the more partakers, the less the risk. In other words, as measured by head count, it looks like a lot of investors have followed Wall Street's lead: Living on the h-EDGE fund is, indeed, a safe bet. A December 15 New York Times article reports: |
"Hedge funds have grown at supersonic speed [to become] the most important players in today's financial markets."
And, a Wall Street Journal column from the same day explains just how "important" IMPORTANT really is:
- In the first 10 months of 2004, $106.6 billion flowed into hedge funds vs. $72.2 billion in all of 2003.
- Assets in hedge funds have grown by 260% over the past five years, to a $1 trillion total ($1,000,000,000,000).
With this many zeros, it's natural to think. Superior performance in hedge funds must account for the rapid growth
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