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In May the Financial Times reported that Derwent Capital, the hedge fund that partnered with Johan Bollen and Huina Mao to trade the “Twitter Predictor” Strategy “shut down”. The official story is that Derwent’s Capital Markets’ Absolute Return fund opened for investments in July 2011, and…The official story is that Derwent’s Capital Markets’ Absolute Return fund opened for investments in July 2011, and shuttered after a single month, with reported returns of 1.86%.

There are a few oddities here:

  1. Why is the FT reporting in May 2012 that a hedge fund closed in August 2011?1 It would seem this is no longer news. To confirm this is not an error on the part of the Financial Times, I quote a ‘weekly sentiment email’ sent by Derwent Capital on June 6, 2012: “Some of you may have read about our Hedge Fund closing last year in press articles this week.” What? I just caught up on the news of this ‘moon landing’, and now you’re telling me there are more events happening in the world?
  2. As late as the end of March 2012, Derwent was posting performance numbers for managed accounts on their webpage. The reported performance was generally positive, but not consistent, with the spectacular performance promised by Johan Bollen. This period of Derwent’s existence has gone down the memory hole.

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