Been Quote by Barry Ritholtz

I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.

— Barack Obama

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

— Julian Robertson

In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave…

— Carl Icahn

Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption…

— Alex Berenson

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

— Burton Malkiel

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last…

— Alan Greenspan

I think there are probably too many hedge fund managers in the world, as well as active fund managers. The hedge fund industry is…

— Martin Gilbert

It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge…

— Julian Robertson

Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety…

— Barry Ritholtz

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they…

— Barry Ritholtz

Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will…

— Cliff Asness