My first quote on Taleb was from memory, and looking into it it seems that my memory was a lot more black-and-white than the facts are. I’d love to get some concrete data on the two fund families, but hedge funds are notoriously hard to pry data out of, so I’m not sure we’ll get any.
but hedge funds are notoriously hard to pry data out of, so I’m not sure we’ll get any.
And in this case, a career is being built partially out of claiming that one of the families was a great success and proves the worth of a notoriously egotistic man’s ideas, so the situation is even worse than usual.
My first quote on Taleb was from memory, and looking into it it seems that my memory was a lot more black-and-white than the facts are. I’d love to get some concrete data on the two fund families, but hedge funds are notoriously hard to pry data out of, so I’m not sure we’ll get any.
And in this case, a career is being built partially out of claiming that one of the families was a great success and proves the worth of a notoriously egotistic man’s ideas, so the situation is even worse than usual.