Comments on: Pomegranate Capital Thinks Women Can Run Money Better, Is Wrong

By: Electriclynn

Electriclynn — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:47:32 +0000

Took a look at the Pdf report. Not all that impressed as the numbers can be SPINNED to benefit what ever you want to push… So Mrs. Susan is pushing women to lead.. Won’t happen, most are too lazy. Seriously, most women won’t work unless you start by cutting off the money supply (daddies who pay for their little girls into old age, men who marry women to stay home, alimony, shared custody instead of child support, etc, etc, etc.) that continues to feed the pampered poodle life-style. Take away the easy money & you will see a whole lot of women get off their backs and slip into some steel toed shoes and earn a dollar the good ole “Rosie” way….and yes I am not only a woman, but also a devoted single mother of four, you may call me Ms. Lynn. This is my free personal opinion. Take it for what it is worth, nothing.

By: W.C. Varones

W.C. Varones — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:46:29 +0000

Two words: Nicola Horlick.

By: AUM under AUM

AUM under AUM — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:16:03 +0000

Considering that she, like many 2nd tier hedge funds, will be making money off of AUM rather than actual preformance, this looks like a winning strategy. While she will not be delivering any actual returns, she will be selling her investors a sense of dogoodertude and smugness which will prevent withdrawals for some time, allowing her to coast off of the 2% long enough to retire a rich woman.

Long asset gatherers.

By: st0ckp1ck3r

st0ckp1ck3r — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:55:11 +0000

In my experience – Money runs women better.

By: required (yes that's my name)

required (yes that's my name) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:24:16 +0000

I happen to know Havens Advisors, a hedge fund run by Nancy Havens. The fund has excellent returns year after year. This is not a plain dartboard long/short fund she’s managing, it’s actually pretty a complex fund with complex investment strategies. Ms. Havens is a smart woman with bigger balls than many guys I know. I’m a guy and not for all the PC feminist shit, but you really can’t hold a candle to this woman…

By: zb

zb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:36:26 +0000

Do you make your all of your investments based on your rabid misogyny rather than silly things like “numbers”? What would that fund be called?

I-Have-Mommy-Issues Cap ?

The-Pretty-Girls-In-Highschool-Ignored-Me Cap ?

Sign me up! That fund will surely outperform a fund run by the skanks over at Pom Cap.

By: MKM

MKM — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:41:35 +0000

Er… there actually IS some evidence (real academic research, not a commissioned “study”) that women have more investment success than men.

See Barber, Brad & Odean, Terrence. “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Feb 2001.

Barber is a finance professor at UC-Davis; Odean is a finance professor at UC-Berkeley.

You can find a PDF here: http://faculty.gsm.ucdavis.edu/~bmbarber/

However, other than all that, I personally think using gender as a manager screen sounds more like a marketing gimmick than anything else. How much you want to bet she targets the wealthy divorcee crowd?

By: HarlemHaberdasher

HarlemHaberdasher — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:50:20 +0000

It seems very possible that there is strong selection bias going on in the selection of women to run funds. Given the prejudices against them in finance, I’m sure a female senior analyst/assistant PM/whatever often has to outperform her male counterparts significantly in order to get the PM job.

But if that’s the case, then investing in an FoF of funds run by women… might actually be a good idea.

By: Zbignew

Zbignew — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:14:11 +0000

I would use grandma’s dialysis money to go into a fund called Notorious G.D.P.

By: Mr Juggles

Mr Juggles — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:47:55 +0000

All my seed money would go to the Notorious G.D.P., which is a just a great great name.

By: The Corner

The Corner — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:27:57 +0000

You guys are all wrong, get your seed money together for Pom Cap’s daughter fund, Grenadine Millenium IV, to make its IPO.

By: Notorious GDP

Notorious GDP — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:19:43 +0000

Is it just me or does their logo look deceptively like a Poppy? This may explain exactly what they are smoking to think this business model is a good idea.

n G.D.P

By: Aspiring Mini-Baller

Aspiring Mini-Baller — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:56:09 +0000

Each day before I set about “killing it” and “getting it done” I think of pomegranate. I mean, is there a better source of folic acid and antioxidants?

By: PBateman

PBateman — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:43:58 +0000

Seriously, WTF are they thinking. There are only 4 or 5 HFs run by women that are even remotely respectable. (Note this is very different from “good”, or “investable”). Why the hell would someone intentionally invest in something that due to its own admission limits the set of funds it can choose from and thus will inherently provide lower returns?

On second thought, if people want to lose money, don’t let me be the one to stop them. Invest away idiots.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:44:52 +0000

Do women begin to understand why they are not taken seriously when one of them names a fund, “Pomegranate Capital.”

By: JCauto

JCauto — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:00:39 +0000

If she exercises the same care in selecting broads as fund managers as she does in constructing her website, I think we have a winner here.

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:46:44 +0000

There are funds managed by women??