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Market Neutral Mutual Funds

  With last year’s market-wide slump, mutual funds are trying to take a play out of the hedge fund playbook. One of the more common strategies employed by hedge-like funds is market neutrality. By taking off-setting positions in equities, fixed-income securities, options, etc., managers can eliminate market risk. Market neutrality conceptually works like this: If a fund manager believes that […]