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Leverage Risk

A hedge fund can borrow in order to enhance its overall returns. Borrowing, or using leverage, is a source of both volatility risk and financing...

Loss Carryforward Provision

An amount that is equal to the greatest value reached by an investor’s capital account with a hedge fund, adjusted for...

Tail Hedge

An adjustment to the number of futures contracts used to hedge a position in an attempt to make the present market exposure...

Tailing The Hedge

In the context of futures contracts, it is a small adjustment that has to be made to the formula used...

Inclusion Bias

A variation of the survivorship bias that results from inclusion of a new hedge fund into a given index and...

Backfilling

A variation of the survivorship bias that results from inclusion of a new hedge fund into a given index and...

Backfill Bias

A variation of the survivorship bias that results from inclusion of a new hedge fund into a given index and...

Absolute Returns

Returns which a hedge fund can generate, or assumed to be generating, above the risk-free rate, regardless of the prevailing...

Absolute Return Fund

A hedge fund that aims to generate a stable return regardless of market performance. In other words, it is designed...

MVHR

It stands for minimum variance hedge ratio; a mathematical tool for determination of the optimal cross hedging ratio. This means...