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A comment on Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17). Parent comment

Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by kirse on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:28PM (#26299410)
As Rentec tidbits continue to leak over the years, you wonder how much of their gains are tax loophole engineering vs financial wizardry.
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Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by jgalt212 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:37PM (#26299468)
Or how much of their returns are just massive leverage being deployed and hidden from the rest of us? They constantly return investor money and cap the sizes of the private fund.
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Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by chii on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:24AM (#26299996)
it's quite likely that their method of arbitrage has limited quantities in the market (whatever it is), and thus, cannot be deployed with unlimited capital.
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Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by fooker on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:37AM (#26300724)
>cannot be deployed with unlimited capital

Nothing can be.

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Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by powerapple on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:18AM (#26300417)
which means it is easy to beat the market, most of them lose only because of taxman takes the profit away?
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Re:Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now ... by liuliu on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:43PM (#26299506)
Or how much of Medallion's gains are just front-run their clients in their public-facing fund.
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