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(Bloomberg) It was the kind of moment that would normally sink a hedge fund: Dan Sundheim was on Zoom, apologizing to clients for losing $4 billion in a single month. He ticked off strategy changes, noted he wasnât going to dock his teamâs pay and then headed back to work.
(Bloomberg) It was the kind of moment that would normally sink a hedge fund: Dan Sundheim was on Zoom, apologizing to clients for losing $4 billion in a single month. He ticked off strategy changes, noted he wasnât going to dock his teamâs pay and then headed back to work.
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(Bloomberg) It was the kind of moment that would normally sink a hedge fund: Dan Sundheim was on Zoom, apologizing to clients for losing $4 billion in a single month. He ticked off strategy changes, noted he wasn’t going to dock his team’s pay and then headed back to work.
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Now, mere weeks later, the episode is behind him.
Sundheim has recouped about 90% of what he lost in January when retail investors attacked his short bets on the likes of GameStop Corp. That recovery has put his D1 Capital Partners back into one of the most rapid ascents ever seen in money management. His presentation that February day fit what investors have come to expect from the 44-year-old billionaire unemotional yet sincere, supportive of his 51-member team, and unfazed by risk attributes they say helped him amass $20 billion in less than three
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Gabe Plotkin s Melvin Capital lost 7% in March to close out a dire first quarter.
The firm was down almost 49% in the quarter, sources told Insider.
In January, the firm was targeted by retail traders who piled into its GameStop short position.
In March, Gabe Plotkin s Melvin Capital took a step back from digging itself out of its GameStop hole.
The $8 billion equity hedge fund lost 7% last month, finishing the first quarter down almost 49%, sources told Insider. The average hedge fund, Hedge Fund Research found, made 1% last month and earned just over 6% over the first quarter. Melvin declined to comment.
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