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1. Dimitry is a day trader.
2. His shop imposes tight risk limits.
3. His PMs are not investing enough?
Balyasny's founder Dmitry Balyasny on why his PMs were trading too much and not investing enough:
"One of the keys to enduring success in the money management business is finding a balance between trading and investing."
"You can't survive in a hedge fund type model just being a long term investor, and you can't really scale in a significant growing hedge fund being just a super active trader."
"Folks were really trading a little bit too much in the fundamental equities business, and were a little bit overly focused on each data point. We were kind of missing the forest from the trees."
"We were chopping ourselves up a little bit too much, missing some of the bigger winners and creating a lot of trading slippage costs."
"Find investments where there's multiple ways to win, where you're not playing for one particular data point. You're playing for a whole series of data points that's going to revalue that security over time."
A hedge fund manager’s personal finance advice for early buy-side analysts:
"You should be personally and financially conservative for a few reasons. First, it is a cyclical business, as people have now rediscovered. Second, it's a lot more fun if you have some of your own money to invest. And third, it opens up a lot of flexibility to you, particularly in the intermediate stages of your career."
- Paul Issac, Founder, Arbiter Partners Capital Management
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John Arnold made Enron $750M in a single year, then walked away and built a hedge fund that returned over 100% a year for a decade. 🧵
In 2012 he announced his retirement from running Centaurus. Over its 10-year run, the fund averaged annualized returns above 100%.
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