The Term 'Hedge Funds' Is Misleading Because

question 55

Multiple Choice

The term 'hedge funds' is misleading because:

• A) they only invest in fixed interest and so should be known as 'fixed- interest funds'.
• B) hedge funds are not really funds but are more akin to banks.
• C) they only ever exist off- balance sheet.
• D) the standard hedge fund strategy is very risky.

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Definitions:

Anterograde Amnesia

The inability to form long-term memories of events occurring after a brain injury or brain surgery, although memories formed before the trauma are usually intact and short-term memory is unaffected.

Hippocampus

A region of the brain associated with memory formation, organization, and storage.

New Memories

Information or experiences that are newly encoded into an individual's memory system.

Infantile Amnesia

The relative inability of older children and adults to recall events from the first few years of life.