The upfront way to a hedgie’s heart

Peter Epstein has worked out what the hedge fund manager has missing in his/her life.

“It’s not a bigger jet or a rarer Picasso,” he says, but a T-shirt printed with the slogan “Fuck me, I’m a hedge fund manager.” The T-shirt is part of Epstein’s debut design collection, entitled American Exceptionalism. “From obnoxious hedge fund managers to strippers ‘working their way through college’ the collection casts a gimlet eye on the rarely applauded – but relentlessly American – people and values that keep our nation humming,” says Epstein. “Hedge fund managers are a piece of Americana.

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