Hedge funds: Not the juiced-up, ready-to-destroy-financial-markets types many believe
| Jun 9th, 2010 | Filed under: Media Coverage of Hedge Funds, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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It’s all the rage to talk about the new age of prudence – scaling back from the overextended, over-leveraged days or yore to become properly aligned with the new era of fiscal rectitude.
Hedge funds have of course been no exception to the banter, particularly as most market observers and commentators have already concluded in a guilty-before-proven-innocent way that over-leveraged hedge funds were behind most of the world’s current economic and financial market ills.
Even today, talk persists of hedge funds being dangerous over-leveraged, with the potential for dangerous and dramatic ramifications for global financial markets. Just ask Angela Merkel.
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