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Bubbles and Risk

September 18, 2010

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The reason why we have bubbles is that investment decisions are being made by hedge fund managers who are principals only in positive rates of return and have no down-side risk. The usual formula for compensating hedge funds is 2% annually of the total value of assets under management plus 20% of annual gains. Therefore, […]