The highest paid EKG technician in the United States receives an annual salary of about $74,760 whereas the lowest paid EKG technician earns around $32,800 per year. The annual median salary for an EKG technician is about $47,010.
Meanwhile, during the current crisis, losses in currency-hedged funds like DBEM have been buffered as the dollar rallied. With over $85 billion in assets under management between EEM and VWO, I'm still surprised that the currency-hedged version of these funds, DBEM, only has $4.5 million in assets.
The popular misconception is that all hedge funds are volatile -- that they all use global macro strategies and place large directional bets on stocks, currencies, bonds, commodities or gold, while using lots of leverage. In reality, less than 5% of hedge funds are global macro funds. Most hedge funds use derivatives only for hedging or don't use derivatives at all, and many use no leverage. Benefits of Hedge Funds. Many hedge fund strategies have the ability to generate positive returns in both rising and falling equity and bond markets.