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13F filings don't show any short positions or any private positions. I"m guessing this is mostly what leads to this discrepancy. It's also a reason why the in
by chollida1 11y ago
13F filings don't show any short positions or any private positions.
I"m guessing this is mostly what leads to this discrepancy. It's also a reason why the industry really hates 13F filings. They don't tell the whole story.
A fund could show they are long $1,000,000,000 of Microsoft but have in the money puts for the same delta value making them effectively flat Microsoft in the real world. But according to the 13F filing they are long.
Infact this is often one of the first mistakes people make when joining the industry. They see the 13F and figure that they now know what positions a hedge fund has, when in reality its more akin to saying you've see Facebook's source code by selecting show code from your web browser.
Those two things are related but very far apart.
- Dmit3000 11y agoThanks for your response. My concern is that they claim that "each of our selected asset classes is represented by a low cost, passive ETF." https://research.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/investment-methodology/ https://research.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/investment-meth... So it is supposed to be a long-only strategy and therefore, theoretically, in their case their 13 F filing should be consistent with their reported AUM. What do you think?