Where is the edge today?

Maybe I’m disillusioned from last summer at a macro HF, but curious where you guys think real edge exists today?

Why don’t we hear about guys like druckenmeiller, tepper, kovner who could crank positive returns year after year in a single strategy?

The premise of MMs is that they are a good product because they can filter PMs quickly, so LPs don’t have to lock in capital for a long period of time. If MMs are the secular trend, that implies that master PM, who just dominates markets in a single strategy, is kind of dead. Appears most HFs have even begun making internal hedges against their rainmakers. (e.g. Brevan allocating capital away from Alan Howard).

Curious examples of guys across any strategy (macro, distressed, l/s, etc) who just clip returns year-after-year and can claim to an “edge.” 

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I’m sorry but time arb isn’t a convincing edge. Those l/o HFs that claim a 5 yr + horizon for alpha can’t compete with private markets. Liquidity is king, unless your doing something super esoteric that has edge in its correlation.

 

It's a very convincing edge when you have the right set of investors. It's not a convincing edge these days if you're a PM at a pod shop.

 

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