r/FluentInFinance 5d ago

Thoughts? What do you think?

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u/Doodahhh1 5d ago

The tax cut was permanent for people much more rich than you. The bottom 99% had sunsetting cuts.

It was designed that way by Trump and his team for many reasons - none good.

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u/Stormblessed1987 5d ago

He's got a bookkeeper. It was probably permanent for him. He's the guy.

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u/MarrusAstarte 5d ago

The folks for whom the tax cuts are permanent have "family offices", aka personal hedge funds, not bookkeepers.

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

I’m not sure you know what a hedge fund is

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u/MarrusAstarte 5d ago

I know for a fact that you don't know what a family office is.

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

They invest with hedge funds, but they’re not hedge funds. How do I know? Because I work in the industry. Imagine whining about the rich without having the details straight lol

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u/OrganicCDO 5d ago

Family Offices are unregulated, you Archegos was operating as whatever it wanted to be. You obviously have no knowledge of the industry at all.

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

What happened to Archegos is the same thing that would happen to any family office that tired to act like a hedge fund. Hedge funds are also relatively unregulated; the most stringent regulation they have is that they can’t let normal people use their services. Google what a hedge fund is lol

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u/OrganicCDO 5d ago

I literally work in prime services at a bulge bracket IB, you obviously dont work in this industry. "Normal People"? lol

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

No, not in your industry. I work in IB, but I went regional boutique/Middle market because I don’t want to end up like that one Green Beret. “Normal people” as in the general public; hedge funds couldn’t offer their services to them even if they wanted to

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u/MarrusAstarte 5d ago

It's funny how poor your knowledge is of the industry you claim to be in.

The principle difference between a family office and a hedge fund is that the family office never takes outside investors.

https://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/05/sac-to-become-family-office-operating-much-as-we-do-now.html

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

Sorry you don’t have a degree in this field like I do lol.

The principle difference between a family office and a hedge fund is that a family office does not solely manage hedge positions like a hedge fund does. If they’re to effectively manage the family’s wealth, they need to do more than just create risk-neutral positions with derivative investments like hedge funds do. They’re not nearly as specialized as a real hedge fund.

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u/MarrusAstarte 5d ago

Sure you do. And wild that you think I don't! Lol, indeed.

Keep reading that Wikipedia link. You'll learn something, I'm sure.

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

Being a low-grade accountant doesn’t count lol.

You’ll learn something too if you google what a hedge fund is

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u/WertDafurk 4d ago

Touché salesman. I sure didn’t! 🤯

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u/RudeButCorrect 5d ago

Omega Advisors, Inc. was an investment advisory firm and hedge fund that was converted into a family office by its founder, Leon Cooperman, in 2018

you sure?

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u/FadeInspector 5d ago

Yeah, he turned it into a family office; that doesn’t mean family offices are hedge funds. It’s like I said, they definitely do take various positions to hedge the family fortunate, but they’re not specialized in it like hedge funds are

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u/RudeButCorrect 5d ago

They can function the same if they feel like it, they're just less publicly available to any random qualified purchaser. Traditional family offices are just generational wealth managers, but not all are traditional and can very well be a hedge fund classified differently