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![oo_curious_j Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1298223578987614208.png) Curious_J [@oo_curious_j](/creator/twitter/oo_curious_j) on x XX followers
Created: 2025-07-17 22:15:07 UTC

Check the veracity of your headline: hedge funds can’t beat the market.

2024 returns: Citadel = 15%; Millenium = 15%; Point72 = 19%; Bridgewater = 11%; S&P XXX = 25%… again… 25%…

Do that analysis for any year and you’ll almost always find the same trend: hedge funds underperform the market.

The truth is that if you have money in a hedge fund, you are paying them to underperform an index fund. 

How much are you paying them? The typical X% annual fee alone results in XX% after XX years. An index fund would charge XXX% in the same period. It gets worse. Bloomberg has reported that including carried interest and pass through costs, hedge funds on average now take $XXXX on every dollar.

Whose money are they taking? Pensions. Teachers, nurses, fire fighters, public employees, etc. If hedge funds are so successful at beating the market, then why don’t their clients like nurses retire early with yachts? As Warren Buffett likes to ask, “where are the clients’ yachts?”

If you invest in a hedge fund, you are paying the manager to retire early while you will have to retire later and later. 

Do yourself a favor, avoid the evil parasites called “hedge funds”, and invest in low cost index funds.


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