Economy Blog

What do you get when you cross good, thematic long-term investors and stock pickers with quarterly or annual redemptions? Perverse decision-making and style drift. Or a portfolio manager with an ulcer. There is a fundamental mis-alignment of motives in the hedge fund business, and my guess is that it will push truly excellent investors into one of two camps:

Becoming “institutional,” substantially growing assets, running an overly diversified portfolio in order to dampen volatility by pandering to institutional risk-aversion, and generating mediocre returns in the process; or
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