Funds can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, they refer to a certain amount of funds set up for a certain purpose, such as trust and investment funds, provident funds, retirement funds and so on. In a narrow sense, they refer to funds with specific purposes and uses. Usually, funds mainly refer to securities investment funds.
The income of securities investment funds comes from the future, and the performance of the income is inseparable from the performance of the investment target market, which has certain risks.
Fund form:
It is still uncertain which is the earliest hedge fund. During the great bull market in the United States in the 1920s, there were countless such investment tools specifically for the rich. The most famous is Graham Newman Company founded by Benjamin Graham and Jerry Newman. Partnership fund.
In 2006, Warren Buffett declared in a letter to the American Museum of Finance that the Graham-Newman Partnership Fund in the 1920s was the earliest known hedge fund, but other funds may appear earlier.
In the economic recession of 1969- 1970 and the stock market crash of 1973- 1974, many early funds suffered heavy losses and closed down one after another. In 1970s, hedge funds usually focused on one strategy, and most fund managers adopted the long-short stock model. During the economic recession in 1970s, hedge funds were once ignored. It was not until the late 1980s that several successful funds were reported in the media before they returned to people's sight.