Category: Research
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Value Investing Q3 Letter Recaps: ABG, RICK, VRRA
Our Value Investing Letter Recaps keep things simple. Each email focuses on three value investing hedge fund letters, three ideas, all digestible in roughly three minutes. Within each idea we answer four main questions: What does the business do? Why is it a good bet? Why does the opportunity exist? What is the prize if you’re right?…
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What Really Drives Cyclical Inflation [Part 1]
***Note: As a thank you for following along with us this year, we’re releasing three premium reports that were previously only available to our Collective members. The following is report number two.This research is part of the work our team is doing to prepare for the 2023 Macro Regime Shift. If you want to protect…
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Cycles Upon Cycles Upon Cycles…
I’m leaning short on the equity markets. I think the upside/downside [risk here] just doesn’t make sense to me when I have so many central banks telling me what they are going to do, This is a tough level [for the S&P 500] to talk about robust returns. [Central banks] are going to keep rates…
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Value Investing Q3 Letter Recaps: ASTL, CVNA, ESTC
Our Value Investing Letter Recaps keep things simple. Each email focuses on three value investing hedge fund letters, three ideas, all digestible in roughly three minutes. Within each idea we answer four main questions: What does the business do? Why is it a good bet? Why does the opportunity exist? What is the prize if you’re right?…
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This Is One Bad Apple…
What are the factors that gave rise to investors’ success over the last 40 years? We saw major contributions from (a) the economic growth and preeminence of the U.S.; (b) the incredible performance of our greatest companies; (c) gains in technology, productivity and management techniques; and (d) the benefits of globalization. However, I’d be surprised…
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Value Investing Q3 Letter Recaps: AMBP, AHT.LSE, FFH.TSX
Our Value Investing Letter Recaps keep things simple. Each email focuses on three value investing hedge fund letters, three ideas, all digestible in roughly three minutes. Within each idea we answer four main questions: What does the business do? Why is it a good bet? Why does the opportunity exist? What is the prize if you’re right?…
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Turkey Is The Best Performing Market This Year…
The securities we typically analyze are those that reflect the behavioral anomalies arising from largely emotional reactions to events. In the broadest sense, those securities reflect low expectations of future value creation, usually arising from either macroeconomic or microeconomic events or fears. Our research efforts are oriented toward determining whether a large gap exists between…
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Value Investing Q3 Letter Recaps: CACI, SE, NWSA
Our Value Investing Letter Recaps keep things simple. Each email focuses on three value investing hedge fund letters, three ideas, all digestible in roughly three minutes. Within each idea we answer four main questions: What does the business do? Why is it a good bet? Why does the opportunity exist? What is the prize if you’re right?…
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We’re Entering a Vicious Regime… [DIRTY DOZEN]
Reflexive processes tend to follow a certain pattern. In the early stages, the trend has to be self-reinforcing, otherwise, the process aborts. As the trend extends, it becomes increasingly vulnerable because the fundamentals such as trade and interest payments move against the trend, in accordance with the precepts of classical analysis, and the trend becomes…
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Bruce Kovner’s Trading Strategy Explained
Bruce Kovner has every attribute you’d want in a great trader. He generated a ~90% CAGR during his ten years at Commodities Corp. After that, he opened his own shop and compounded capital at ~21% for 28 years. Peter Brandt – one of the greatest traders of all time – calls Kovner “probably the best…