Where is the trading opportunity?įund managers work where there are scales of opportunity and economy of scale. Sports investments set up to attract hedge fund investment would allow them to employ high-quality quants and sports traders using decent amounts of money to participate in the things like cricket matches, the premier league and other such events doing all the hard work for accredited investors, in return for a performance fee. It could spring forth a whole new set of asset classes.

Gambling is big business and surely ripe for a well-organised sports hedge fund to offer its services to the market? If we add in football and other sports and count all activity include pre-off and in-play you end up with a total of around £55bn a year in matched betting turnover on the Betfair exchange.

Over the course of the year, it’s easy to clock up 10-20k races and roughly £10bn a year in betting turnover on racing alone. Recently, on a Saturday, we had 331 horse races in the UK and Australia.

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