Is there any legal hedge fund in malaysia? I do know there are many private hedge funds operate illegally, how about the legal one? If legal, can they just trade/invest in only one market?

Banned in malaysia.

Banks and the Finance Companies are "the hedge funds" in Malaysia.

"hedge" is something sensitive since the 1997/98 crisis; hence, NO

Are hedge funds risky?

This is a common question, no thanks to the negative publicity created by the failure of LTCM (Long Term Capital Management). However, it is worth emphasizing that LTCM is essentially a single manager hedge fund that is opened to institutions only. There was a general lack of transparency of the hedge fund and there was an extremely high level of leverage involved, magnifying the risk exposures.

It is possible to lose part or all of your capital by being invested in hedge funds. However, it is worthwhile to note that hedge funds in general have lower downside volatility compared to stocks and investing in a fund of hedge funds structure can mitigate the failure of an individual hedge fund.



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One of the main reason investors opt for hedge fund is due to its low volatility.
We do have index fund which has similar volatility with hedge fund.
And contrary to the general lack of transparency of the hedge fund, index fund openly displayed the assets weightings in the monthly fact sheet performance issued via Bloomberg.

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This post has been edited by chanelle tan: Oct 15 2011, 01:50 PM