Korean slang profile
헤지펀드
hejipeondeu
Hedge fund
A fund pooling money from a small number of investors and investing in financial and real assets through diverse methods.
- Expanded form
- Not documented
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Oct 31, 1998
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
외환위기를 다룬 연구자료에서 헤지펀드의 운용 방식을 읽었다.
I read about 헤지펀드 management methods in research material on the foreign-exchange crisis.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
The Korean summary of a 1998 대외경제정책연구원 report describes capital pooling funds from a small number of investors to invest in various high-risk assets. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The Korean summary and publication date on the institute’s official introduction page were directly checked. The report PDF’s main text was not compared. This defines an economic term of the time; first use and extent of popularity remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 헤지펀드 운용실태와 국별 환투기 사례분석Published Oct 31, 1998Original source checked Nov 15, 2026