Hedge funds: You can run but you can’t hide

A snowboarder in Utah says we're heading for a global liquidity squeeze: capital will self-destruct and the world financial system will need to reinvent itself, as it did after 1929, 1945 and 1971. He may be wrong. If he's right, what does it mean for the dealers and investors who grew rich and famous on global euphoria? David Shirreff reports.

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According to their fans, hedge funds fared best in the October/November turmoil in emerging markets. Hedge funds, traditionally risk-averse, can steady their returns in volatile times. They tend to run offsetting long and short positions designed to profit from pricing anomalies and low-risk arbitrage.

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