Hedge Fund for sale.

Quote from TSGannGalt:

Our Commodore 64 clusters are working great! We clean the floppy disk drives every day so that the program won't crash. Code??? What code??? Troubled times??? We can always run to the brokers office and trade directly!!!

We don't have bathrooms in our office. We take a dump out the window and like those damn pigeons.

Too funny.

BTW: I'll do FIX and FAST for $125K/yr if I can work from home, and you buy me a new foosball table. Available by the hour. Call now, our operators are standing by.
 
Quote from jmjatlanta:

Too funny.

BTW: I'll do FIX and FAST for $125K/yr if I can work from home, and you buy me a new foosball table. Available by the hour. Call now, our operators are standing by.

Instead of the $125K/yr... how about I pay you 125K pesos...

Would I get hold of you if I call and mention about you on QVC?
 
Quote from OddTrader:

Zero value! :p

In general, my understanding is a (privately owned) profitable hedge fund would have no value for goodwill that most other profitable businesses have. All existing clients can leave at once for ever as another hedge fund can offer better terms and performance once the originator and his skills/ knowledge leaving the business and gone. The originator will keep trading for himself (and others, maybe) with better methods/ systems he would know now or later that would destroy the business further. By no ways a potential buyer would know whether any trading methods/ systems will be fully disclosed by the orignator even that is part of the deal. Just 2 cents.
 
Quote from NTB:

With Fortress coming public, this hedge fund management company can get 10x the private valuation on the public markets.

Isn't it true that hedge funds registered in Ireland can be easily listed as public companies for retail purchase, in general?
 
Quote from OddTrader:

Isn't it true that hedge funds registered in Ireland can be easily listed as public companies for retail purchase, in general?

You are talking about the "Fund", this thread is about ownership of the actual "Management Company" that collects the fees (performance and management) for running the Fund. The investors in the Fund may get rich, but the owner of the Management Company of a successful Fund gets the richest.
 
not quite right on the Ireland retail fund

Yes, hedge funds are listed on the exchanges there but there are still quite strict restrictions on what determines a QI. Do a google on "QIF" and "PIF" + "Ireland" to see,. The major accounting firms publish free industry papers on this

I'm an Irish national in the US and I go back a lot and meet with fund industry people. Ireland is getting tons of hedge fund admin business because of its lighter regulatory touch and low corporate tax rate. Fund management is still dominated by London, NY and Greenwich however
 
Quote from TSGannGalt:

Wow...

I actually started this thread for discussion purposes. No one is selling their own hedge fund in here. I'm talking in terms of hypothetical terms.

And... I do a lot of the work around my fund... In reality, I have more work than I was trading my own money.

- Working longer hours than when I had a night job as a chef to pay my bills. (70+ hours/week)

- Learning IT stuff on my own due to Software Engineers costing so much to hire. ( FIX engineers costing $150,000+ /year??? insane... I learned the whole thing in 2 months and it's working flawlessly!!! Though, some IT engineers amazes me... not alot)

- I don't get to go out just for fun. Most outings are business oriented, kissing ass to potential 3rd party marketers / investors)

- More legal constraints. PPM is a bitch!!!


Anyways... back to the topic...

There's a semi-successful hedge fund in front of you for sale.

Considering all the flashy image that hangs around in hedge fund management (These days it's getting a bit insane, like those IT moguls from back in the internet bubble)

How much are you willing to pay to become a hedge fund manager???
A healthy, stable hedge fund company trades at 15-20 times earnings.
This one would be low end... say 15... probably less... say 12.

A 30% return for only 5 years (not a full market cycle)...
With a relatively modest Sharpe Ratio of 2.0
Is actually very volatile...
And could be produced with one big year and 4 mediocre years...
So is very likely unsustainable.

Since one could fluke those numbers...
Your last 2 years MUST be strong...
Or throw the whole thing out the window.

Over last 6 years I have a 28% return with a Sharpe Ratio of about 3.50...
And very close to 5.00 in 2006.
But I'm in the $1-2 million range...
And can only scale up to about $10 million with my methodologies.

** If my Sharpe ratio was 2.0... I would not be in business **

I doubt that sophisticated people would pay anything near 10 times earnings...
But would low ball you just for the assets under management.

You should clean it up... and IPO to a less sophisticated crowd...
Maybe end up with a $50 million market cap.
 
Quote from TSGannGalt:

The working staff, developing the trading models, integrating the IT, and keeping the fund's compliance in line are still there.

The quality of the fund wouldn't be affected.

If this was a legit fund, then I don't think they would have to offer it for sale on "elite trader".
 
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