But back in 2003, the average long-short fund gained only 8.5%.
The company launched four funds earlier this summer called the Rydex SGI Event Driven and Distressed Strategies Fund, the Long Short Interest Rate Strategy Fund, the Long Short Equity Fund and the Alternative Strategies Fund.
Why try to market an all-short fund?
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In most 401(k) plans, to move money from a stable-value account into a money-market fund or short-term bond fund, plan participants have to be invested in a riskier option for at least 90 days.
The story is similar with its top bond fund, the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund, run by Virtus-owned money manager Newfleet Asset Management.
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In recent months, hedge fund critics have raised the issues of aggressive short-selling, hedge fund collusion with research analysts to manipulate a stock to their benefit, and short-sellers who skirt rules on stock settlement and clearing to make profits.
For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.
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As a big investor, the fund could demand that the broker handling the short sale rebate to the fund a portion of the interest the broker earned by investing the proceeds of the short sale.
For example, the iShare short-term fund mirrors the Lehman one- to three-year U.S. Treasury Index.
In short order, fund investors learned that Lehman Brothers Holdings Group Inc.
Her college fund should not be in the stock market, because equities might decline and leave her college fund short.
Driving the reduction in hedge fund short trading is the escalating cost of selling stock short in the last few years.
Instead I constantly read the work of bears like the hedge fund short-seller Jim Chanos, to see if they see something that I miss.
Among its best performing funds are the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund run by Newfleet Asset Management and its Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund run by Vontobel Asset Management.
The short thesis rests on the notion that the FTC has been asleep at the switch, missed a massive fraud for over three decades, and will shortly awaken (at the behest of hedge fund short seller) to shut down the Company.
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But if anyone suffers from the short-termism of fund managers, it is the clients.
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Last year, the average short-term bond fund gained about 9%, according to Morningstar.
The new "Edge" fund - short for "encouraging dynamic growth entrepreneurs" - will be open for applications from November.
Critics argue that he should allow borrowing to rise even further in the short term to directly fund capital spending.
Today, this hedge fund is short the stock market indexes of the European nations most suffering like France, Italy and Spain.
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To prevent yield chasing, most stable value funds prohibit transfers to similar options, such as a money market or short-term bond fund.
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Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives.
The agency accused the firm of arranging a deal with a hedge fund to create a pool of mortgage securities the hedge fund could short against.
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Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
The commercial paper market is growing increasingly antsy and GE, not unlike a hedge fund, is stuck with some percentage of long-term assets that it is trying to fund with short-term money.
He sat next to his right-hand man at Goldman, Gary Cohn, and in the same section as the short-selling hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and Nasdaq head Bob Greifeld.
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What that means is the road builders want spending determined by various assessments from the Department of Transportation and others of what's needed to maintain and improve the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. If receipts coming into the Highway Trust Fund fall short of those needs, the lobby argues Congress should close the gap.
The fund will provide short- and long-term financial help for the families of the seven victims.
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Kraft says it plans to use cash on hand and short-term borrowings to fund the purchase.
But the club, owned by the American hedge fund president Ellis Short, stood by its decision.
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