[mikert5671]

Some of them do beat the market. They are also producing returns that are more robust to a downturn. So even if they dont match the S&P performance, in a downturn they dont lose as much as the S&P does. It's difficult to compare index funds to hedge funds, they have different purposes. When the market is always going up, it looks like a scam.

[jorblumesea]

Hedge funds are also statistically unlikely to beat the market and finding one that does requires a huge capital buy in that few workers can make. You're talking 250-500k minimum buy in. Hedge funds have chronically underperformed for the last 10-15 years. Now that so much information is available, much of the market performance is priced in now.

Once again, the best bet for the average person is an index fund. On a 30 year timeline all of these blips are smoothed out. If you can afford top level financial firms you're probably way wealthier than the average person.

[nradov]

Did they beat the market because they are actually better investors, or did they just get lucky? There are so many hedge funds now that statistically a few of them are guaranteed to have long lucky streaks.

[Xcelerate]

If you could decide this accurately, then you would have a strategy for your own hedge fund.