Michael Platts of Bluecrest good example of this. After years of underperformance he shut his fund. Unburdened by constraints of outside capital he became richest man in the United Kingdom.
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Avi23.7.2025
A lot of talk about liquid funds today. As a fund manager in the crypto world for 8 years, I am intimately familiar with the game. Managing a fund introduces tremendous psychological pressure to outperform which most cannot handle and end up underperforming. A good trader can be destroyed by becoming a fund manager. I’ve seen it happen many times. Luckily, in my career, I was good for eight out of nine years. I beat Bitcoin for 8 years. 9th I lost. And so I left my post when I felt the grip slip. Returns have dramatically improved for my personal portfolio. With all of that said, sympathy for those who LARP is limited. Although I understand you can’t show weakness and raise capital, maybe you shouldn’t raise capital if you lost the touch.
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