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Plotkin’s Melvin Capital to wind down funds

Hedge fund’s founder acknowledges need to ‘step away from managing external capital’ after rocky stretch

Melvin Capital Management, the hedge fund that lost billions of dollars during last year’s meme-stock rally, has told clients it is winding down its funds.

Gabe Plotkin, the New York-based firm’s founder, told clients he plans to return cash to investors after a difficult stretch. “The past 17 months has been an incredibly trying time for the firm and you, our investors,” he said in a letter to investors seen by the Financial Times.

Melvin was hit hard in January 2021 after its short position on GameStop — a bet that the video game retailer’s share price would drop — failed miserably as an army of investors on Reddit started buying GameStop shares, pushing the company’s value up as much as 2,400 per cent.

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