Why don´t Hedge Funds hire Freelancers?

There have been increasing reports that Hedge Funds use (fake) job listings in order to get new investment ideas from job applicants.

Why don´t Hedge Funds hire Freelancers that could do their independent research, and whenever the Hedge Fund uses the respective idea, they would have to give the freelancer a cut from the profits that they made.

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