The lock-up period’s not over yet but that’s just the kind of guy he is. There’ll be a small fee associated with the exit, of course, and the knowledge that you’ll never find a manager with a pair like Big Tepp.

“We were being nice,” Mr. Tepper, the founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management, said in a telephone interview. “We let some people out of the lockup, and we replaced it with new money.” Mr. Tepper’s move stands in stark contrast to some funds that still aren’t giving investors their money back despite improving returns. Mr. Tepper called a lot of the funds’ actions “questionable.”

“The stuff that went on with gating with liquid stocks is a chill to me,” Mr. Tepper said. “If you own liquid stocks, you should let people have their money.”

Investors In Thoroughbred Fund Granted Early Exit [Dealbook]

Comments (10)

  1. Posted by Chuddy | January 4, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    He’s giving our industry a black eye.

    ~ Phil, Wilber and his Pig Lisa

  2. Posted by GGG | January 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    um, and what’s so wrong about not letting your investors have their money back? this fucking guy.

    - Phil the Falcon(e)

  3. Posted by Guest | January 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    co-signed.

    -ken griffin

  4. Posted by InfiniteGuest | January 4, 2011 at 9:47 PM

    That’s a horse of a different color. Tepper is a breed apart.

  5. Posted by InfiniteGuest | January 4, 2011 at 9:47 PM

    That’s a horse of a different color. Tepper is a breed apart.

  6. Posted by Guest | January 4, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    Always the go-getter, muti-billion dollar fund manager David Tepper somehow finds time to moonlight as the assistant athletic director at a small non-denominational college in Pennsylvania.

  7. Posted by Anonymous | January 4, 2011 at 10:09 PM

    I need more of you in my life.

  8. Posted by W. Anker | January 4, 2011 at 10:20 PM

    Me: hey wats up ur an appaloosa

    You: wtf mate im not an appaloosa

    You are a flaming appaloosa.

  9. Posted by Cornell_rules | January 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM

    CMU sucks

  10. Posted by anon | January 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM

    Thank you Andrew Bernard

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