You wish lol. How do you think they pay for all the developers?

Firms like HRT don't even take outsider money, they don't really need to.

And besides, we don't get paid for beating stocks, a lot of funds will do worse than equities in a good year for the latter, the whole point is that you're benchmarked to the risk free rate because your skill is in making money while being overall market neutral. So you rarely take a drawdown anywhere near as badly as equities.

As a service this is often a portfolio diversification tool for large allocators rather than something they put all the money into.

It is true however that some firms are basically just rubbish beta vehicles that probably should in an ideal world shut down.