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SEC's Investor.gov defines a Hedge Fund as funds that “pool money from investors and invest in securities or other types of investments with a goal of getting positive returns. Hedge funds are not regulated as heavily as mutual funds and generally have more leeway than mutual funds to pursue investments and strategies that may increase the risk of investment losses.”  

Go to the NYU Business Library's Company & Financial Information section for links to useful resources including links to the following suggested resources: Preqin for performance and data and reports.

Standard &Poor's NetAdvantage:  Choose Screening from the top toolbar and then choose Companies Screening.  Choose the category Investment/Advisory Firms and select Primary Fund Types Managed, then Hedge Fund. You can then view results. 

Search in Bloomberg. The Library Bloomberg terminals are in Bobst Library, 5th floor.
Use the following commands:
Hedge Fund Home Page – Type HFND green <GO> button.
Hedge Fund News – Type NI HEDGE <GO>
Hedge Fund Searches – Type FSRC <GO>, select #24
Hedge Fund Ranking Tables – Type STAT <GO> 

Accessible via WRDS. Select Thomson/Refinitiv then the module Lipper Hedge Fund Database (TASS)

On the NYU Business Library's Journals/Newspapers section.  In addition to full text searching in the various resources listed, the following suggested title, Barron’s: publishes a section entitled Hedge Fund Performance on the 4th Monday of each month.