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	Hedge Funds Hedge Fund in comparison to Private Equity Funds No Load Mutual Funds Earn Big Returns On Your Investment Using A Well-Known, But Little-Understood No-Load Mutual Fund Strategy. Angel Investor Arbitrage Depository Receipts Emerging Markets Long or Short Equity Fund of Funds Comparison to Mutual Funds Comparison to Private Equity Hedge Fund Regulation Hedge Fund Risk Arbitrage Hedge Fund Strategies Venture Capital Hedge funds are seen to be similar to private equity funds like venture capital funds, in several respects. One of these similarities is that both are lightly regulated private pools of capital which invest in securities and pay their managers a share of the fund's profits. Most hedge funds invest in very liquid financial assets thereby permitting investors to enter or leave the fund with equal ease. It has been seen that private equity funds invest primarily in very illiquid assets like early stage companies and due to this, investors tend to be locked in for the entire term of the fund. Studies show that hedge funds often tend to invest in private equity companies' acquisition funds. Furthermore, between 2004 and February 2006, it has been noticed that some of the United States hedge funds adopted over 25 month lock-up rules with the sole intention of exempting themselves from the SEC's new registration requirements. They hence now fall under the category of registration exemption that had been drafted to exempt private equity funds.