hedge fund
noun
: an investing group usually in the form of a limited partnership that employs speculative techniques in the hope of obtaining large capital gains
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Last Friday , activist hedge funds Saba Capital Management and Cox Capital Partners launched tender offers to buy a portion of shares in three Blue Owl Capital private credit funds.
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Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
Connecting companies that might be owed tariff refunds to hedge funds that are willing to buy those future payments at a discount is what investment banks do with their time.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Among the deployers of foreign capital eager to invest in the boom years was the giant New York hedge fund Och-Ziff (since rebranded as Sculptor Capital).
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
BlockFills, a crypto lender and hedge fund, suspended customer withdrawals earlier in February.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
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Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
Connecting companies that might be owed tariff refunds to hedge funds that are willing to buy those future payments at a discount is what investment banks do with their time.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Among the deployers of foreign capital eager to invest in the boom years was the giant New York hedge fund Och-Ziff (since rebranded as Sculptor Capital).
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
BlockFills, a crypto lender and hedge fund, suspended customer withdrawals earlier in February.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Hedge fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hedge%20fund. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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