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Arbitrage opportunities disappear quickly for a simple reason: traders' gains are brokers' losses. Brokers are highly motivated to prevent these losses and rapidly implement countermeasures, often called "plug-ins," that neutralize arbitrage strategies. This holds true for all forms of arbitrage, including forex, betting, and cryptocurrency.
Yes, holds for almost all. But what arbitrage business are you in?
 
Property flipping in Spain. Buy broken but low, fix in a couple months, sell. Repeat. Easy 30% but you need to manage it: find the people for the job, plumber, electrician, architect, review that the job IS done properly... everything. If you leverage that to a contractor, bye bye to your 30%. Btw IS not that much job compared to the profit, and Spain taxes "only" 19% on that if you are not spanish.
You can also do this by funding a company doing that in Dubai.
They buy villas on palm, fix and sell for profit.
No taxes and you get your money back in about a year or so.
Never done it myself I just know it exists.
 
For truly passive investment returns—without the active involvement required in flipping houses for example, which I don't consider truly passive because they require your time and effort—Private Equity (PE) funds and late-stage, proven VC funds stand out. Between the two, I’d choose Private Equity for its stability and consistent returns. While some VC funds might deliver a 70% IRR, others could yield zero, making it a riskier bet unless you’re in the industry and know what you’re doing.

Good PE firms typically generate net IRRs of 15-20%, while top-tier ones achieve 25-30%, which is objectively hard to beat. That’s why billionaires and the world’s best investors—including Ivy League endowment funds—allocate significant exposure to it.

Since PE investments require capital calls over time, family offices and HNWIs often balance them with index funds or ETFs to maintain liquidity and ensure they have capital readily available. Timing capital calls is unpredictable and ultimately depends on the GP’s (fund manager’s) decision, so this approach allows them to earn some yield on idle capital while waiting for deployment. This is also why a well-managed wealth portfolio with significant exposure to "alternatives" (this kind of investments) should yield 12-15% annually on a blended basis, compared to ETFs alone, which typically return around 8%.
 
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So you're saying you've done business with @JohnnyDoe , but then you actually haven't! Are you being paid by @JohnnyDoe to promote him, or why are you lying? Why not just stay out of the thread if you have nothing useful to contribute?
As a wrote here, I looked into the proposed venture and concluded it was legit and deserves investment. I finally did not end up investing myself.
 
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