Are hedge funds good for you?

Scandals aside, there are many positive attributes to an industry that gets beaten up by just about everyone

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By Kit R. Roane


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Illustrations by Brian Cronin

Raj Rajaratnam ran what might be described most delicately as an outlier strategy: trading on insider information, which is not only illegal but impossible to pull off consistently year after year.

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