Managing risk, stealh, and extraordinary profits: a look at headge fund operators and managers' agents

Abstract

This article offers a preliminary assessment of research on Brazilian analysts, traders and financial managers who operate hedge in the derivatives market. Incipient, even in the debate of the sociology of international finance, hedge funds are the representation and consolidation of an investment structure considered vanguard between investment and risk. Thus, based on a set of semi-structured interviews, the work seeks to describe and analyze the processes of accumulation of material and symbolic resources necessary to guarantee or facilitate the entry, permanence and circulation of agents in the space of hedge funds.