通过做空美国次级住房贷款，加州对冲基金Lahde Capital今年获得了超越1000%的回报，使其成为有史以来全球表现最好的基金之一。
A Californian hedge fund has made more than 1,000 per cent return this year by betting against US subprime home loans, making it one of the worlds best-performing funds of all time.
上周，在信贷市场动荡最新阶段过后，Lahde Capital扣除收费后的回报率突破了1000%的关口。该公司去年创建于圣莫尼卡，开创者为安德鲁?拉德。次级抵押贷款有关证券价值的下跌，提升了提前发现这类问题的一些基金的价值。 Lahde Capital, set up in Santa Monica last year by Andrew Lahde, last week passed the 1,000 per cent mark, after fees, following the latest leg of the credit market turmoil1. The fall in the value of subprime-linked securities has boosted a group of funds which spotted2 the problems in advance.
去年，一些对冲基金决定，借助衍生品做空水平低下的美国住房贷款，这好像已成为有史以来收益最高的单笔买卖今年迄今，它们获得了远超越200亿USD的价值。
The decision to use derivatives3 to short, or bet against, low-quality US home loans taken by a select group of hedge funds last year appears to have become the most profitable single trade of all time, making well over $20bn in total so far this year.