Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by whatshisface on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:42AM
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You could design a portfolio of short and long positions that exactly cancelled out everything else the fund had.
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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by whatok on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:40PM
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Good luck with that considering most if not all of the other investments would be private investments that would be difficult, if not impossible to replicate in public markets.
Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by whatshisface on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:59PM
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Maybe you could find a bunch of other funds with slightly different positions in the same companies, and then form a linear combination that cancelled out the differences.
Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by erikpukinskis on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:59PM
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You'd end up with an "error portfolio" that was somewhat random that you'd be investing in proportionally with your SpaceX investment.
Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by whatshisface on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @06:07PM
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If I started a few listed companies and bought carefully constructed portfolios of unlisted securities specifically so that this would be possible, I wonder if the SEC would get mad.
Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by mLuby on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:13PM
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I smell a SaaS product…
Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
by jlmorton on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:39PM
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I smell financial regulation. The secondary market is generally only available to accredited investors. If you're investing in a fund, that's one thing, but if a product is unwinding all of that to allow unsophisticated investors to essentially buy secondary stock in private companies, the SEC is going to have something to say about that.