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6. Ops and back office. If you work for a fund they probably provide you with IT and hardware support, a risk system, pnl tracking, maybe trade execution and position management (rolling futures, handling dividends, stock splits, delistings etc) which you do yourself otherwise.
7. Market access. Some strategies require leverage and shorting, both of which are hard and expensive to access in a personal acct but easy and relatively cheap for a fund/prop shop with good broker relationships.
Great point. If you have a strategy that works for bond futures it might work even better for cash bonds or interest rate swaps, but you’ll never know if you can’t access the market.
In addition to scale other people’s money is diversified, and is ok with your strat eating it for a year while others perform. If you have enough $$$ to do that you’re a family office.
I know nothing about US taxation but if you traded your own funds as an LLC and paid yourself a % of profits, wouldn't you potentially save a lot (assuming corporation tax is lower than income tax) compared to working for a fund? ps leverage easy to obtain in some countries
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