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Hedge funds are bespoke investment vehicles that are able to employ a much wider variety of investment strategies which are not typically available to mutual fund investors.
Such strategies include being able to sell shares short (providing the opportunity to profit from falling markets) as well as to use futures and options, to name only a few examples.
Hedge funds may achieve their goals by investing in markets which are difficult for most investors to access, by concentrating portfolios on opportunities which offer the best perceived value or by profiting from the mispricing of different assets in inefficient markets.
Investors into hedge funds have to meet certain criteria, and must be classified as sophisticated investors, able to understand the risks inherent in such investments.
At Fitzwilliam Asset Management we take a macro-economic approach, using fundamental research to identify where we should allocate capital. This means that our portfolios are designed to exploit current opportunities across asset classes and geographies. Unlike some funds of hedge funds, which tend to allocate to a large number of strategies regardless of the economic environment, we believe our results demonstrate our success in researching the best opportunities and then only investing where the greatest value exists.
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