The phrase "to hedge"
Has been around for hundreds of years to signify taking a position of least danger... So Hedge Funds are essentially a way of offsetting the potential danger of a stock market price change i.e. if you place a bet at 5/1 you get that price even if the odds go up or down...

To back track a bit further "Hedge" as in a surround of a field was used to limit the size of the field and a Hedged fund limits the risk of the fund.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:40, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)

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(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)

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( girlinthehole, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)

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( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)

To Hedge your Boobs
Is an Olde Engerlish Phrase whereby the wenches of the day would entice innocent young, but well to do, men by enhancing their god given gifts with a trimming of finest French lace creating an effect not dissimilar to a picket fence surrounding a small hillock. This would tighten the aformentioned young mans trousers and loosen his purse.
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