Asset Management vs. Hedge Funds: Which Is Best for You? The decision between working with an asset management firm or a hedge fund comes down to one consideration: how risky can you afford to be with your assets? If you find yourself nowhere near retirement age or flush with money, perhaps it’s worth seriously looking into specific hedge funds.
Oh, and our money is locked up for about 10 years, versus easy liquidity in stock markets. That said, even venture capitalists often fail to provide good returns. But here’s the approach I’d recommend for hedge fund investors: 1) Invest in hedge funds that have real performance and a strong value-add, and/or 2) Invest in index funds,.
While both hedge funds and REITs are two totally separate invest strategies, you can actually invest in REITs while investing in a hedge fund. REIT hedge funds are actually fairly common, and they work by investing in existing real estate companies or the acquisition of actual real estate properties themselves.

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What’s the meaning of the GameStop saga, the ongoing stock-market rollercoaster ride? A Reddit-fueled surge in the video-game retailer’s stock that began as a joke ultimately wrecked one Wall Street hedge fund, made (at least according to the screenshots) some day-trading retail investors suddenly very wealthy, and shattered the already fragile myths about the “rational” market on which our economy and society are based.

You can earn a lot of money if you’re successful in any of the 3 fields, but the compensation ceiling is far higher in private equity and hedge fund than it is for investment banking. Investment banking, irrespective of a good or bad year, largely remains the same as the client base remains the same.

The odyssey is still ongoing and changing by the minute, but exuberant analysts went big. “We are witnessing the French Revolution of finance, where the proletariat is rising up to change the order structure in finance,” a breathless Anthony Scaramucci, the venture capitalist and, very briefly, former White House spokesman, said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Wednesday night.

A catchy analogy, that’s caught on. The thing is, Scaramucci is right, but not in the way he thinks.

In 1789, the French replaced a king (whom they guillotined) with a dictator (whom they guillotined), who was later replaced with an emperor (who lasted long enough to create a legal code, much of which still stands today). The boss is dead, long live the boss. And, lo: so far, the biggest winners are all still on Wall Street, whose ultimate power over the very framework on which r/wallstreetbets is run (that is: Wall Street!) was never in doubt. Beneath the hype cycle, beneath the headlines, it was obvious who was still in charge.

On Thursday, retail investors found themselves iced out. Robinhood, the Zoomer-friendly, free trading app that many posters on r/wallstreetbets used to stake out their positions, restricted trading in at least 13 stocks on Thursday morning, including $GME and other companies Redditors targeted for short squeezes. Other retail brokerages, including TD Ameritrade, are now allowing users to only sell their shares, not purchase more.

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Trading resumed Friday, and as of mid-morning, shares in GameStock were still an astronomical $340, up almost 20 times from early January. The Securities and Exchange Commission—created in 1934 during the Great Depression, with the intent to avoid another such calamity—said it would probe Robinhood and other brokerages. In Robinhood’s case, the SEC will be probing further: Regulators fined the company $65 million in mid-December for hiding its financial arrangements with trading firms. Not so democratic, after all.

Regulators may yet take further action. “We will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is prohibited by the federal securities laws,” the SEC said in its statement. In the meantime, Thursday’s twist led to a very discordant moment of comity between Ted Cruz and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, and compelled Sen. Elizabeth Warren to complain that a lack of regulation let all this happen. But in the now, the sum total is an object lesson, to the same posters who memed and trolled their way into watching Melvin Capital gush blood on the street, to realize that the game is still rigged against them.

If there was any “revolution,” it was that r/wallstreetbets merely democratized market manipulation—a very old Wall Street trick. Or, worse, the internet just provided a platform for the illusion of control, while Wall Street had its thumb on the scale and reaped all the real profits all along.

Big money, like the institutional hedge funds that triggered the imbroglio by shorting GameStop’s stock in the first place, were still allowed to trade freely during the Thursday suspension. And while Melvin Capital’s public bloodletting has led to many gleeful tweets, other big pots of money are making a bigger killing, out in the open but away from the spotlight.

Most of the shares in GameStop are owned by big, institutional capital. If Redditors made thousands or millions, institutional capital made billions. As VICE reported, in SEC filings submitted on Tuesday, BlackRock reported that its holdings in GameStop, worth $174 million in December, are now valued at more than $3.1 billion.

Even if BlackRock didn’t exist, Wall Street would still come out on top during GameStock, since they run the trades. As business writer Alexis Goldstein wrote in her newsletter Markets Weekly, retail brokerages like Robinhood exist and are profitable because traders make a small profit on each trade.

In Robinhood’s case, Wall Street takes a double cut. Robinhood receives a fee for each transaction from… a hedge fund. That hedge fund, acting as what’s called a “market maker,” essentially a clearinghouse for retail trades, makes money by buying shares in lots, at lower prices than their clients are paying. A small profit on every share, but an avalanche of pennies adds up.

This arrangement, called Payment To Order Flow, sounds predatory, but is entirely accepted on Wall Street—and it also explains why Wall Street is okay with “GameStock.”

One hedge fund lost money, another hedge fund made money. “The house always wins,” said one investor and analyst, who declined to give their name in order to speak freely.

What happens next? GameStop, priced below $10 before the 40x madness began, will come down to earth eventually. “The most likely long-term outcome is that the price of GameStop will eventually converge back to its fundamentals-indicated level, but it’s difficult to predict just how long that will take,” said Anastassia Fedyk, a professor of finance at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business whose areas of expertise include group behavior.

There are other examples of media coverage triggering brief spikes in stock prices over the past few decades. Stock-trading message boards have for ages been poisoned with random anonymous posts touting this or that stock; sometimes these are investors, trying to post towards a “pump and dump.” Going forward, r/wallstreetbets has shown the ability to make a stock jump. This should compel institutional investors, like the big hedge funds, to re-evaluate a fundamental concept in finance called “arbitrage.”

In textbooks, arbitrage can be boiled down to a buyer purchasing the same security at different values on different markets, but always benefiting from the price difference. That’s an “efficient market,” which in some analyses is a fantasy anyway. Some point to r/wallstreetbets as a demonstration of how the market is not efficient. But the market’s history is full of hype-cycle-fueled spikes and dips. Tech stocks have done this. Cannabis stocks have done this. What’s really different, here?

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