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What do you get when you cross good, thematic long-term investors and stock pickers with quarterly or annual redemptions? Perverse decision-making and style drift. Or a portfolio manager with an ulcer.
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It’s long. Interminable. Complicated. No, it’s not the race for the Democratic nomination. It’s the slog that is the Clear Channel litigation.
A classic example of what is wrong with hedge funds.
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“A classic example of what is wrong with hedge funds.”
is this a bad link that should be pointing to a specific post or is the whole fintag blog an example of what’s wrong with hedge funds?