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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by xibalba on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:54AM (#21824308)
You've got bias in your sample of the S&P. Medallion has blown away the S&P over a few decade span. They had years of >100% return.
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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by sokoloff on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:04AM (#21824379)
I simply picked the timeframe over which the accusation of illegal activity was leveled. (I'm not arguing that those are representative long-run returns; I am arguing that those are returns which are directly comparable to [and easily explain] the growth of AUM for the time period cited.)
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