FrontPoint Partners
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Kelly: Investment management failures typically stem from misaligned incentive frameworks
“If you want individuals to act in a way where they are collaborating and working towards a client outcome, you have to appropriately construct those incentives correctly. That's often where in investment management things go awry. So I'm having a problem getti…”
Collins: FrontPoint returned 200% on the subprime short without heavy leverage
“Even on one of the things that we got wrong about the subprime trade is that we didn't put a lot of leverage on it. And that's why we made, what, 200%.”
Collins: FrontPoint risk managers opposed entering the famous subprime short trade
“The extent of the risk management that occurred at Frontpoint, there were two risk managers, lovely guys, but the only thing that they really pushed back against us was on getting in the subprime trade because they said, well, you'll never get out of this thin…”
Daniel: FrontPoint's subprime trades would get PMs fired at modern Citadel
“Because I can imagine if someone took what we were doing way back when and put it in a Millennium slash Citadel native IDEO model, we'd probably be fired on the spot.”
Collins: FrontPoint anticipated the subprime credit crisis years early
“Everyone likes to talk about the big short trade. We knew this was happening. We'd talked about this for two, three years of waiting for this credit cycle to happen. It was not a surprise to us, and we were really ready for it.”