Two thirds of investors want out of Scaramucci’s SkyBridge
Investors haven’t been able to get their money out of Anthony Scaramucci’s crypto fund. As of Thursday, Bloomberg reports that over two-thirds of the shareholders of his $1.6 billion crypto fund had filed for redemption of their shares — and were still waiting to get their money out. Private wealth clients at Morgan Stanley made a large number of those redemption requests. His fund delivered flat performance from April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2024. Over that same five-year period, bitcoin rallied 10X. So, how is it possible for SkyBridge to have delivered near-zero annualized returns for five years while bitcoin returned 60% ? FTX invested in SkyBridge; SkyBridge bought FTX’s token Scaramucci was heavily invested in Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire through its final week in business. In a quintessentially Bankman-Fried quid pro quo, FTX Ventures invested in SkyBridge and sponsored Scaramucci ’s SALT conference. To draw that full circle, SkyBridge bought millions of dollars ...