At that time, the Fed had cut the Federal Funds Rate to 1%, we had very low short rates.

当时联储局将联邦基金利率降至1%,短期利率非常低

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There were seventeen categories of equity mutual funds and they compared the dollar-weighted to the time-weighted returns.

其中一共是17种股权共同基金,将它们的货币加权回报率,和时间加权回报率进行比较

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So,huge amounts of institutional funds and individual funds are going into this hedge fund world.

大量机构基金和个人基金,都将进入对冲基金领域

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Firms that do that are, in practice, however, the minority and most mutual funds have some gimmick or some special-- they claim to be beating the market not forming the optimal portfolio.

然而实际上,这么做的公司很少,大部分共同基金都会耍些花招,或有一些特别的...,他们强调他们的收益率将强于市场平均水平,而非建立最佳投资组合

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Anyway, the person wrote-- he was talking about fires and was proposing that people should pay 1% of the value of the home every year into a fund and then the fund would be used to replace the home if it burned down.

反正,这人写道...,他当时是讨论火灾,并提出,人们应该每年将自己房屋价值的1%的金额,交给一个基金会,那么如果有房子烧毁了,基金会就可以用这笔钱来重建它

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I think it's very hard to raise the definition of accredited investors because the minute you do that you're closing large numbers of people out from their ability to invest in hedge funds and they don't like that; they feel insulted, so there was a lot of angry reaction.

我认为要提高,合资格投资者的门槛很难,因为一旦实施,大量的投资者将被拒之门外,这些有能力投资对冲基金的人们,可不会开心,他们会觉得被侮辱了并因此而恼怒

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