Hedge fund traders have been among the biggest beneficiaries of this boom, booking billions in profits - and pay - in recent years.

Then he returned to Chicago, where he became a hedge fund trader.

Well, if there is a group of businesspeople on the planet that understands when to cash out, it is hedge fund traders.

For hedge fund traders and managers, markets were rough in the spring and summer, and some did not make gains until stocks rallied this fall.

In the course of the book the reader is introduced to John Veals, a hedge fund trader who is arguably the most important character.

HBO recently announced a new series about a hedge fund trader and his pals.

Soros is a hedge fund trader and was instrumental in trying to brig democracy to Eastern Europe.

Professor Tufano and his colleagues found from interviews with fund traders that they sometimes alter their trading activities because of this accounting practice.

Nor did he know why it was moving: because a hedge fund trader had entered an order to buy the stock at any price from $10 to $95.

Hedge fund traders and mutual funds reported surprise and annoyance, but there seemed to be no major problems as a result.