Hedge funds for beginners

[sasguru]

... Potentially lucrative if you work for them as a contractor (I should know) ...

How do you know? have you worked for a hedge fund? And if so doing what?

[Buffoon]

The FSA has started making noises about them , regulating them more tightly.

Yeah, right! First sign of the FSA actually doing something and the money would be out the country quicker than Tony can take a bribe.

Potentially lucrative if you work for them as a contractor (I should know) or a perm but they hard to get into.

This is true.

As a headline you will need a minimum of a £250,000 to invest.

In a fund of funds maybe. A HF wouldn't return your calls if you could only scrape 1/4 million together.

[GeorgeGregan]

Article on why not to buy hedge funds

http://www.slate.com/id/2155871/entry/2156310/

[TheOmegaMan]

There is a lot of research showing the majority of hedge funds do not offer superior returns in the long run:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...ract_id=881105