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2022 Fourth Quarter Review & Commentary

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These periods are now known as “Minsky Moments.” 2022: One for the Record Books These days, words such as “unprecedented” or “extraordinary” seem overused in our daily vernacular, however, they do feel appropriate when describing 2022. Seventy years of peace in Europe were shattered as Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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Multi-Manager Hedge Funds: A Meritocratic Paradise or a Revolving Door of Burnout?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Multi-manager hedge funds promise investors solid risk-adjusted returns with low volatility; no matter what the broader market does, you’ll make money if you invest in them. At a multi-manager, however, you’ll spend more time analyzing the catalysts , evaluating investor sentiment , and poring through data and analytics.

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2023 First Quarter Review & Commentary

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” Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation Warren Buffett is one of the world’s foremost investors. Interestingly, throughout 2021 and 2022, there were no U.S. As we wrote in our Q4 2022 newsletter, we believe that the Fed will stop raising rates during the second quarter of 2023. bank failures.

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2023 Third Quarter Review & Commentary

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billion, and ranked #6 on Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List (as of 10/11/23), Buffett is widely regarded as the most successful equity market investor of the past century. Repeating last year’s behavior, stocks and bonds correlated positively again in Q3, thus denying the traditional 60/40 investor any diversification benefits.

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2023 Fourth Quarter Review & Commentary

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Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, expressing why he thought he and his business partner, Warren Buffett, had been such successful investors for so long. On November 28, 2023, just five weeks shy of his hundredth birthday, the world said goodbye to famed investor Charlie Munger.

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2023 Second Quarter Review & Commentary

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We believe this behavior should be ignored by long-term investors. Equity markets are justifiably high risk investments, given the historically high returns they afford investors over long investment horizons. This came to pass in June as the Fed paused its rate-hiking cadence, which began in March 2022.

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