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The hedge fund industry dates to the late 1940s, when the first hedge fund strategy was created, but boomed in the 1990s. Some typical strategies are equity strategies, credit strategies, and macro strategies, just to name a few. Hedge fund managers therefore use a broad range of investment strategies which are typically not available to the traditional mutual fund manager. Hedge funds are alternative investments with freer rules than for example mutual funds, as they require less regulation from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It is no surprise that the leading hedge fund firm is headquartered in the United States, as the country has the largest hedge fund industry in the world. The firm managed assets worth almost 105,700 billion U.S. The American firm Bridgewater Associates was the largest hedge fund firm in the world as of June 2021.

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