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hedge fund fraud  

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  • Hedge funds are multimillion-dollar investment funds, developed in the late 1940s to hedge against possible poor performance of traditional investments. Investors would put a small portion of their assets into the fund. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Hedge Fund Fraud]

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