“Most of the capital in the asset management industry is inherently short term, available for redemption on a minute by minute, day by day, or quarterly or annual basis. It's hard to think long term if your investors are going to be judging on a very short term basis.”

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Bill Ackman: Concentrated Investing, Permanent Capital, and the Value of Being Challenged

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states that most asset-management capital is short-term and that permanent capital is scarce but essential for his strategy

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“We can sort of look through that noise, because no one can take our capital away from us. That's what we talk about when we talk about permanent capital.”
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Todd Hunter
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