3 ms·
We have no idea what the beta of the fund is; it's difficult to talk about performance without knowledge of the fund's underlying risk The other problem is sca
by huac 9y ago
We have no idea what the beta of the fund is; it's difficult to talk about performance without knowledge of the fund's underlying risk
The other problem is scale - this is pretty evidently an advertising attempt in order to raise more cash. It's a lot easier to return 20% on, say, $100M AUM than it is on $1B AUM.
To be fair -- these caveats are true for almost every fund you hear about. I do think that's kind of my big issue with the article though, that this fund is just like every other fund; it's intrinsically an actively managed portfolio with the same shortcomings as any other. It's just got a good publicist!
- ice109 9y agoI don't understand why 100 mil aum is different from 1 bill aum. couldn't you just divide the billion amongst 10 groups that are Chinese walled from each other? then there'd be no problems of market moving or depth or anything.
- huac 9y agoYour strategy means that you need 10x more working algorithms. Harder to find 10 than 1.