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And because hedge funds are under pressure in their traditional business, which is short-term arbitrage in liquid markets, they are attracted by returns from private equity potentially at least double what they expect from their usual activities.
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Some say the hedge funds are now practicing arbitrage, playing GOOG short and AAPL long.
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The universe of hedge fund asset classes is very deep and includes convertible arbitrage, distressed mortgage, long-short equity and global macro, among many other complex strategies.
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Only hedge funds--by selling short and tapping into a wide range of strategies like arbitrage--can do the trick.
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Its Nobel laureates had gone from the old long-short play into more sophisticated ventures, like finely tuned arbitrage the practice of buying the same security simultaneously in different markets to profit from minute spreads.
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And, because the Fed is not involved in setting short-term interest rates, it creates no opportunities for arbitrage.
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