Given sufficient stock-picking skills, this can generate positive returns regardless of general market movements. Indeed, this was the original defining stratagem that gave hedge funds their name.
The trim portfolio, so the rhyme informs us, wants its “pretty maids all in a row”. As a means to that end, hedging can be an important tool in the potting shed.
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Jim Wood-Smith is head of research at Hawksmoor Investment Management
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