More Money Than God

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Sebastian Mallaby is an editor at the Financial Times and the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Hedge funds operate by balancing risk and reward through strategies like diversifying portfolios with "long" and "short" positions, which help mitigate market volatility. Managers, often personally invested in their funds, adopt cautious approaches since their own savings are at stake, and they lack government bailouts as a safety net. Over time, hedge funds have evolved from A.W. Jones's 1949 model, with pioneers like Commodities Corporation refining strategies through data analysis and investor psychology, and firms like Tiger excelling in stock selection. Visionaries like George Soros revolutionized the field by trading currencies, leveraging political and economic insights to achieve massive gains, such as his $230 million profit in 1985. Hedge funds have demonstrated both destructive and constructive power, from destabilizing currencies like the British pound to revitalizing economies, as seen in Farallon’s transformative investment in Indonesia’s Bank Central Asia. This duality underscores their profound influence on global markets.

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