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by wordpad25 1002 days ago
It's a common misconception about hedge funds that objective is to outperform market.

The objective is to maximize profit per unit of risk taken. If hedge fund made 20% less than market but took 50% less risk, that's a MASSIVE value proposition.

(now, one could argue they fail at that too, but that's more difficult to prove)