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The individual in question is Julian Robertson, manager of--yes--a hedge fund, Tiger Management, until recently the largest such fund in the world.
Essentially, the hedge fund took huge bets with borrowed money--although its capital base was only a couple of billion dollars, we now know that it had placed wagers directly or indirectly on the prices of more than a trillion dollars' worth of assets.
Exactly how central these hedge funds had become was not clear until they got into trouble.
What was different about hedge funds was, first, their ability and willingness to leverage up the money they managed--in effect, to use their limited wealth to buy or short-sell much larger values of assets on margin; and second, their willingness to play outside the mainstream markets.
7 billion of these dollars was for a contingency, a hedge against the unknown---to cover unforeseen events.