The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True
February 6, 2012
Hosted by Jordan Goodman
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Our guest today is Simon Lack, Founder of SL Advisors, LLC. We will discuss his latest book Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True. “The problem is that the hedge fund industry is overcapitalized,” Lack says. “Hedge funds have made tremendous amounts of money, but it hasn’t made its way back to the clients. In fact, if all of the money that’s ever been invested in hedge funds over the history of the industry had been invested in treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good.” Lack exposes the truth about hedge funds: as a result of high fees, complex legal structures, poor disclosure, and return chasing, investors have ended up with meager results. Lacks advises hedge fund investors to invest the way they did in the 1990s: look for smaller funds that are not well followed and utilize obscure and off-the-beaten-track strategies. The vast majority of hedge funds did better when they were smaller, and so did the industry as a whole.
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