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Hedge Fund Two Sigma Is Hit by Trading Scandal

• anonu 3y ago
  > became aware of Wu’s changes because they resulted in higher than expected correlations between some of the firm’s trading models. So you net close to $300m more for investor funds. But you get dinged because you're effectively siphoning off alpha from the prop trading bucket. So even though this was better for clients - it was worse for the owners.