Market Neutral Fund
Categories: Trading, Derivatives
See: Market Neutral.
A fund that is market neutral is almost by definition a hedge fund. Venture capital, private equity, and mutual funds are also, by definition, long-only funds. So they are really never market neutral funds.
Yes, a massively fast-growing, early stage, venture capital-backed start up can defy a horrible market. (Facebook and Zynga went up in value tons during the 2007-2009 bear market.) But most companies don't defy. They just...comply.
So..."market neutral" --> "hedge fund." They need to put that on a T-shirt somewhere.