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Mutual Funds Adding Hedge Strategies

Eleanor Laise, Wall Street Journal, reports that, "Pressured by weak stock-market returns and greater competition for investors' money, a growing number of mutual funds are making use of investment strategies typically found in riskier hedge funds," in this article from Charlotte.com. Laise, details some of the techniques used, which "include making complex derivative trades, investing with borrowed money and short selling," and lists some mutuals funds that use hedge fund strategies and some that don't.