In a conference call held on Tuesday with Bank of America for financial advisers and their clients, John Paulson admitted that his flagship fund, Paulson Advantage, has posted disappointing results, but assured his interlocutors that Paulson & Co has not seen an exodus of investors.Currently, assets at Paulson & Co have fallen to USD19.5bn, compared with USD36bn as of the beginning of 2011. Paulson Advantage lost 36% in 2011, and has lost 13% since the beginning of this year. The Paulson Advantage Plus, for it part, lost half of its assets in 2011, and another 18% since the beginning of 2012.However, the Merger and Recovery funds have posted respective performances this year of 3.6% and 3.9%, beating their benchmarks.