Hedge funds?

What is a hedge fund? How does it work? Are they available to everyone? Just the name makes it sound questionable.

Answers:
Hedge funds are like mutual funds that invest in holdings that are most likely to do well if the market crashes, so that someone with a large portfolio can "insure" part of it against total loss. Unless you have an enormous portfolio, they make little sense for individual investors, and anyway are only open to "accredited investors" (people/organizations with net worths north of a million bucks and earnings of at least $200,000 a year). They are basically just very high risk, potentially very high return vehicles for people who can afford higher risk.
Hedge Fund Tips is a website for individual investors who are interested in learning about hedge funds.

http://www.hedgefundtips.org/
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