Reuters – Hedge funds are widely known as investment vehicles for the wealthy because of their high risk investment strategies. Similar to mutual funds, in the way that they employ a manager and that the investments are pooled together, hedge funds are drastically different in the type of investments they hold.
Unlike your traditional mutual funds that generally hold blue chip stocks, such as Apple, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Google, hedge funds have no restrictions on the type of investments they can manage or the strategies they implement to generate returns. Although many hedge funds do hold stock in companies like the ones mentioned above, many hold some extremely unusual investments.
