Huge flows of money from hedge funds may be helping to create dangerous speculative bubbles, according to strategists at French-based multinational banking and financial services giant Societe Generale, as reported by Business Insider. These speculative bets, Societe Generale warns, "bear a worrying resemblance to the dotcom bubble." They fall into four main areas, as summarized in the chart below. For a variety of reasons, hedge funds were widely expected to shine this year.