Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for … - Cliff Asness

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Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors. . . the now and forever king-of-the-hill.

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Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

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You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.

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