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by DesiLurker 1174 days ago
that only works as long as they are small enough. IIRC thats why they are very selective about taking investments.
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They haven't taken outside investments for many years because of capacity constraints with their strategy. It goes beyond that actually: they force people to take dividends of their profits, because the strategy can only handle so much capital before marginal returns plunge-- otherwise they would quickly have too much capital if they kept reinvesting their cumulative profits.
I thought the strategies varied over the years: early adopter by jumping on different bleeding edge strategies. Strategies restricted by limited fund size.
To add: “So, how does the Medallion Fund make money? It finds individual patterns in data and exploits each pattern just enough to turn a small profit. And when you add up all of those small profits, you end up making a lot of money.”
The fund has $165 billion in discretionary assets under management