Fund Quote by Burton Malkiel

I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.

— Barack Obama

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

— Julian Robertson

Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption…

— Alex Berenson

Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a…

— George Soros

I don't see any magic in hedge funds.

— John C. Bogle

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency…

— Jack Reed

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood

— Andrew Lo

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some…

— Barry Ritholtz

It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge…

— Julian Robertson

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in…

— William Forsyth Sharpe

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

— Paul Singer