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Five big questions from readers about tax-aware long/short strategies

Plus, I'm building a tax-aware long/short simulator

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Brent Sullivan
May 04, 2025
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Tax-aware long/short strategies like the 130/30 and 250/150 aim for pretax alpha with tons of capital losses

These charts from a 2021 AQR blog post show that tax-aware 130/30 and 150/50 generate more capital losses than direct indexing, especially when allowing more tracking error.

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