A summary of the different styles of hedge funds and the proportion of the market they occupy is shown in Table 4, based on Hedge Fund Industry Research data. An indication of the broad activity involved in the style is shown on the right hand side. Most of these strategies are long-short in nature: all of the equity hedge (. long a stock and long a put to hedge its fall); most of event driven (. buy the target M&A company and sell the buyer); all of relative value arbitrage (. buy the London listing and sell the.
