Protégé's seeded hedge funds merely matched its non-seeded fund returns
Ted Seides · Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34) · Dec 18, 2017 · at 21:26
Ted Seides explains how Protégé Partners evaluated the success of its seeding strategy relative to standard fund investments.
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“The funds that protege seeded, you know, my time there had roughly the same returns as the funds that protege invested in that weren't seeded, and then you sort of had acquired this optionality for free.”
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