D.B. Zwirn & Co Hedge Funds

ppauper · February 23rd, 2008, 2:17 pm

anyone work there ?another hedge fund implodes

Traden4Alpha · February 23rd, 2008, 3:26 pm

Not surprising. I was browsing the Harvard Coop bookstore the other day and saw they had 3 copies of "Hedge Funds for Dummies." If that's not a sell signal, I don't know what is.

nazzdack · February 23rd, 2008, 6:18 pm

It's only a sell-signal if there were two or more copies of "The Idiot's Guide to Hedge Funds" next to those.

yabbadabba · February 28th, 2008, 5:43 pm

What kind of power law governs the returns of hedge funds? Seems like Simons is going to rule the world?! At least Shaw took a hit 15 years ago.

nazzdack · February 28th, 2008, 5:50 pm

1) D.B. Zwirn.......the "D.B." stands for douche bag2) What kind of power law?........If you're just a little bit better than everybody else, you'll eventually be acknowledged as the best and maybe there's a fifth-power exponential effect also.

yabbadabba · February 28th, 2008, 6:42 pm

2. If you achieve 35% p.a. that is much, much more than a little bit better than the average due to compounding. If you have a perfect scalable basket of strategies that almost as good as the money press. On the other hand all exponential trends have to come to an end at some point.

MCarreira · February 28th, 2008, 8:32 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaNot surprising. I was browsing the Harvard Coop bookstore the other day and saw they had 3 copies of "Hedge Funds for Dummies." If that's not a sell signal, I don't know what is.Maybe a better sell signal is seeing a queue asking for "Hedge Funds for Dummies" and the salesperson saying it's sold out.