Monday, December 11, 2006

The markets opened up strong. Its the last week for HF managers and other financial professionals to try and justify the gigantic fees the keep charging. Information arbitrage had a good take on the subject. DE Shaw is struggling and heading into Private Equity. At this point the HF private equity is running on hype and marketing. I dont blame them. I would try and keep the current fee structure in place as long as I could. Nevertheless, investors are going to have some questions to ponder after this year. How can Citadel employ 1000 people and spend 5.5 bln in trading costs and it be a longterm strategy for the future?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow I take it you have some beef with hedge funds? DE Shaw is "struggling"? This is a firm about to close out yet another year of 15+% returns, that had tripled in size in the last few yrs and charges 3% and 30% fees (performance numbers are after fees)? Boy, if that's "struggling", can some one please help me struggle like that!