hedge fund

Until my mid-30s, I worked in finance, running hedge funds and optimizing business models with spreadsheets.

As the Chancellor points out now, they are increasingly likely these days to be a foreign hedge fund than a UK pension or insurance company.

And other professional investors including hedge funds, anticipating this, joined in either to profit from the move or at least to avoid losses as the target-date funds caused bond prices to tumble.

Fed officials and investors pay attention to the repo market in part because banks, hedge funds and other institutions use it to support positions in the Treasury market.

The difference between Carlson and the hedge funds, ETF traders and shoppers snapping up gold now is that he has a huge megaphone to highlight the themes fueling its rise.