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Columbia Business School
Graham & Doddsville
AT THE VERY CENTER OF SUS NESS An investment newsletter from the students of Columbia Business School
Issue XXVI Winter 2016
Inside this issue:
25th Annual Craig Effron of Scoggin Capital
Graham & Dodd Management
Breakfast P. 3
Craig Effron P. 5 Craig Effron is the co-portfolio manager of Scoggin Capital
Management, which he founded with partner Curtis Schenker in
Jeff Gramm P. 19 1988. With approximately $1.75 billion in assets under
management, Scoggin is a global, opportunistic, multi-strategy
Shane Parrish P. 30 Craig Effron event-driven fund. Scoggin focuses on identifying fundamental
Jon Salinas P. 39 long/short investments through three primary strategies including
event driven equities with a catalyst, special situations, and distressed credit. Mr.
Student Ideas P. 47 Effron began his career as a floor trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange and
New York Commodity Exchange. Mr. Effron received a BS in Economics from the
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Editors:
Brendan Dawson Jeff Gramm '03 Shane Parrish
MBA 2016 of Bandera of Farnam
Scott DeBenedett Partners
MBA 2016
Street
Anthony Philipp Jeff Gramm manages Shane Parrish is
MBA 2016 Bandera Partners, a the curator behind
Brandon Cheong Jeff Gramm
value hedge fund based Shane Parrish the popular
in New York City. He Farnam Street
MBA 2017 Blog and founder
teaches Applied Value
Eric Laidlow, CFA Investing at Columbia Business School of the Re:Think Workshops on
MBA 2017 and wrote the upcoming book "Dear Innovation and Decision Making.
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Benjamin Ostrow
MBA 2017
Jon Salinas '08 of Plymouth Lane Capital
Management
Visit us at:
Jonathan Salinas founded Plymouth Lane in April 2013 and acts
www.csimaAnfo as sole portfolio manager to the Fund. Prior to founding
Plymouth Lane, Jonathan worked as an analyst at Marble Arch
Heilbrunn : Investments, a long/short hedge fund manager. Before joining
IurGraham&Docks Jon Salinas Marble Arch, Jonathan served as a consultant at ZBI Equities, a
INO long/short hedge fund manager operated by Ziff Brothers
Investments. Prior to ZBI, he was an analyst at Festina Lente
Investment Management, a concentrated, value-oriented investment manager, and
csima
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worked as an analyst in capital markets and research divisions at UBS AG.
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Welcome to Graham & Doddsville
We are pleased to bring you the walks through current Ideas investing. This year's breakfast
26th edition of Graham & including Famous Dave's featured a conversation with
Doddsydre. This student-led in- (DAVE) and Star Gas Part- Philippe Laffont of Coatue Man-
vestment publication of Colum- ners (SGU). agement moderated by Profes-
bia Business School (CBS) is co- sor Bruce Greenwald of Co-
sponsored by the Heilbrunn Shane Parrish discusses the lumbia Business School.
Center for Graham & Dodd origination of Famam Street
Investing and the Columbia Stu- and his focus on becoming a Lastly, we are proud to bring
dent Investment Management better learner, as epitomized you pitches from current stu-
Association (CSIMA). by Warren Buffett and Charlie dents at CBS. We feature final-
Munger. Shane explains how ists from the Darden at Virginia
Meredith Trivedi, the In this issue, we were fortunate these learnings apply to becom- Investing Competition. Colum-
Heilbrunn Center Director. to speak with three investors ing a better investor and shares bia Business School's inaugural
Meredith skillfully leads the and the founder of the popular his hopes for Farnam Street CSIMA Stock Pitch Challenge,
Center. cultivating strong blog Farnam Street. and its readership. and Alpha Challenge at UNC
relationships with some of Kenan-Flagler.
the world's most experi- Craig Effron of Scoggin Capital Jonathan Salinas '08 of Plym-
enced value investors. and Management discusses the evo- The three finalist ideas from
outh Lane Capital discusses his
creating numerous learning lution of his firm and his invest- our classmates include: Marc
experiences with varied invest-
opportunities for students ment approach from commodi- ment approaches and mentors Grow '17, Benjamin Ostrow
interested in value invest- ties to the stock market. Craig and how his background lead- 'I?, and Evan Zehnal '17 —
ing. The classes sponsored offers insights into his risk man- ing up to founding Plymouth Dexcom Inc (DXCM) Short;
by the Heilbrunn Center agement mentality, challenges Lane has contributed to the Nielsen Fields '17, Joanna Vu
are among the most heavily facing the investment manage- firm's world view and how he '17, and Adam Xiao '17 —
demanded and highly rated ment community, and creative seeks to invest Jonathan also Quest Diagnostics (DGX)
classes at Columbia Busi- ways to express investment shares current ideas DHX Short and Justin Hong '17,
ness School. theses while managing against Media (DHXM) and Sequential Zachary Rioter '17, and Cristo-
downside risk. He shares recent Brands Group (SQBG). bal Silva '17 — XPO Logistics
case studies in the event-driven (XPO) Long.
space and opportunities he cur- This issue also highlights pho-
rently see in distressed credits tos from the 25th Annual Gra- As always, we thank our
in Puerto Rico and energy. ham & Dodd Breakfast, held on interviewees for contributing
October 9th, 2015 at the their time and insights not only
Jeff Gramm '03 of Bandera Pierre Hotel in New York. This to us, but to the investment
Partners discusses his book on event brings together alumni, community as a whole, and we
activism "Dear Chairman: students, scholars, and practi- thank you for reading.
Boardroom Battles and the Rise tioners for a forum on current
of Shareholder Activism" and insights and approaches to - G&Dsville Editors
Professor Bruce Greenwald.
the Faculty Co-Director of
the Heilbrunn Center. The
Center sponsors the Value
Investing Program. a rigor-
ous academic curriculum for
particularly committed stu-
dents that is taught by some
of the industry's best practi-
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25th Annual Graham & Dodd Breakfast—
October 9, 2015 at The Pierre Hotel
Mario Gabelli '67 at the Graham & Dodd Breakfast with Professor Bruce Greenwald with Philippe Laffont at the
keynote speaker Philippe Laffont Graham & Dodd Breakfast
Sid and Helaine Lerner speak with Heilbrunn advisory Heilbrunn advisory board members David Greenspan '00,
board member Tom Russo William von Mueffling '95, and Jenny Wallace '94
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Wharton School of try my hand at trading right.
Business of the University commodities. I said that if I
of Pennsylvania. didn't do well, I would go to After about a year of managing
law school a year later. I did Paul's money and these other
Graham & Doddsville well. I learned a lot about life accounts. I realized that I liked
(=): Could you tell us and about commodities and doing this more than trading
about your background and trading. And I was fairly good commodities. I left and told
how you came to investing? at it. everybody I was going to put
together a fund called Scoggin
Craig Effron (CE): It's The problem with with my partner Curtis
important. because I am not commodities trading is that it Schenker, who is still my
the traditional hedge fund ends at 2:30 in the afternoon. partner.
Craig Effron story. I didn't work two years When you're 24 years old you
in investment banking and then can get into a lot of trouble if Here's a key element of our
go to Harvard Business School. you're done at 2:30pm unless partnership and how Curtis
I went to Wharton for you have something to do. I and I complement each
undergrad. I did not get into decided to start learning the other—it's an important fact
NYU Law, but I got into Duke. stock market. I had gone to about Scoggin. Curtis was my
I went down to Duke for a Wharton for undergrad and best friend before we started
weekend with my parents and somewhat thought I knew Scoggin. He's my best friend
everybody there was 6'4" and what I was doing. but I didn't still. Curtis and I keep each
blonde. I said. ". not going to really know how to invest. other grounded. We realize
do very well here. Socially, I About five years into trading we caught a 30 year bull
cannot go here." My parents on the COMEX. I started market. We weren't that
said. "I tell you what, take a doing risk arbitrage. smart. We happened to have
year off, defer, and then money under management, and
reapply to NYU a year later That was the heyday of Mike it worked out. Curtis and I
and hopefully get in." Milken. I thought I was a genius don't take ourselves too
because every time there was seriously. He has always been
During that year. I met up with a deal announced. Mr. Naysayer. and Mr. It's-
two buddies for a card game at automatically—within a Always-Bullish.
Penn. They were playing for week—there would be a
stakes that I had never even topping bid. Then there would He's the guy who kept us in
known existed. I said, "What be a third bid; it was crazy. business a lot because I
do you guys do for a living?" Everyone on the floor knew would've been a lot more
One said, "We trade about my success trading aggressive during the
commodities. On the floor, we stocks. They all gave me their technology bubble. He said.
buy and sell gold and silver. It's money, as my friends, to run "Craig. leave it alone. This is
really fun and you should come for free. I did that for a year not what we do. We don't
check it out." and it was fun. I had about 30 know what that means. We're
accounts and I was doing it for not doing that." And of course
I had been working at EF free. later technology blows up.
Hutton. which was big in That's why it works, and that's
everything, but they went Paul Tudor Jones, who stood why we're still best friends and
bankrupt in the '80s. I had next to me in the ring, was a still partners.
gotten a job there right after good buddy of mine and said.
school and worked there for a "You know what? Run my Part of this Scoggin charm. if
few months. But, then I played money, as well. But one caveat: you want to call it that, is that
in this card game and, I want you to charge me a fee." we still are friends first and
afterward, went down to the I asked, "Why do you want me partners second. I think it sort
floor with my friends. I to charge you a fee?" And. of flows through the whole
thought, "Wow, this looks like being as smart as Paul is, he office. The average tenure of
a lot of fun." Somehow. I said. "Because if you charge me my analysts here is 10 to 12
convinced my parents to lend a fee, you will pay attention to years. There are a few new
me forty thousand dollars to my account first." He was dead guys who are two or three
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years but basically I have 12 could get involved in distressed lose." I had to go through this
analysts, and six or eight of credit. spin-offs, and whole process for my
them have been here since restructuring—anything that investors explaining why they
before 2000. It's a very nice has an event. We went from shouldn't pull their money out.
feeling to know that I can go running $3 million to running A lot of them did a year later.
on vacation and know that $3 billion by the late 2000s. We blew up after redemption
not going to have someone We sort of stopped raising dates so the investors had to
blow me up. money because I liked my life wait to redeem. We made
and I didn't want to be a most of the money back in
Incidentally, the name manager of people; I wanted to 2009, but they were all so
"Scoggin" comes from a camp be a manager of money. And, stunned about what had
that Curtis and I went to in mostly. I wanted it to be my happened that we lost about
Maine. I met him there and we own money. 25% of our capital through
reunited at Penn. We started redemptions in 2009. That was
Scoggin together with these 30 Then '08 happened. We had a learning experience for me.
accounts. Curtis's money, and no losing years until 2008. We You don't ever want to have
my money. It was about $3 had twenty years where every people think you are what you
million in total and that was year we made money. At that are not Then the Madoff thing
how we started in 1988. To point we were up 17.5% net to happened the same year, so
put it in perspective, as a investors. 2008 occurs and. they started saying. "Wait a
hedge fund with $3 million in minute. Madoff didn't lose
1988. we were not even the money for 20 years either." I
smallest while the biggest fund actually had to explain why
"I realized how
was about $80 million. not Madoff to my big investors.
fleeting success can be They knew I wasn't yet they
MI: At that point were you had to check the boxes to
just focused on risk arbitrage? in a market, whether make sure I wasn't actually
Madoff.
CE: Yes, that's all we were it's a stock market or a
doing at that point. We were Were they institutions?
up a lot of money in '89 and in commodities market.
September of '89 the biggest CE: Yes, they're my big guys.
My whole perspective
deal in history was United and they were worried that
Airlines. The deal blew up and on investing has been, they were going to be fired
everybody in my world went from their jobs. Imagine having
out of business. We went from and hopefully will another fraud that you
up 65% to up 20%, which is a invested in. A lot of institutions
big draw down, but still up continue to be, not to were invested with Madoff.
20%. Before this, I had been
competing to attract the best lose." The reality is that a lot of the
talent, but I couldn't afford to fund is my money and Cunis's
hire many of them. Now, they depending on which fund you money. If you do the math, we
were working for free because look at we lost between 20% can do much better making
they were all out of work. I and 30%. To my investors. I good returns on our own
hired a restructuring analyst. a was known as a "Jewish T-bill." money than with management
long/short analyst, and others This is a very bad thing to be fees. Except this year we are
whom I could never have known as—not the "Jewish" losing money. It's the second
afforded before that. part but the "T-bill" pan. time we're losing money since
Because when you then have a 2008. We are down about
That is when Scoggin was losing year, they say. "Oh my 10%. It's really nauseating
really born because we could God, it's not a T-bill." Then because we have done a good
now do things besides just get they start to realize, "Wait a job to be down 10%—that's
lucky with Mike Milken doing minute, he's got risk after all. what's scary. We've done very
topping bids. We could still do We thought you were really few things wrong. but those
risk arbitrage, but now we safe. We thought you couldn't things we have done wrong
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have been fatal in 2015. market. My whole perspective come back from it, but not
on investing has been, and typically. You're given one
: Could you talk about hopefully will continue to be. chance to go out of business
how you think about managing not to lose. and that's it in our industry.
the downside in your You can't redo it. 2008 was
portfolio? Relatively speaking, making different. People gave you a
money is easy. It's avoiding free pass in 2008. Otherwise, if
Matthew Baredes '17.
Matheus Romariz '16. and CE: Let's go back to the floor losing that's important and you lose money of any real
Nicholas Turchetta '17 experience. Managers you've much more difficult. This 10% size, you're out of business
volunteer at the Graham & spoken to in the past and with down year is going to cost me pretty quickly. There's another
Dodd Breakfast whom you will speak in the two years of money. I can tell smart guy down the street
future are probably "traditional you next year will be a very who has done really well and
analysts." They come from he will take your money.
good schools, they learn at
Morgan Stanley or Centerview : How much more
Partners how to be an analyst. "I've learned that competitive is the hedge fund
They start becoming investors people tend to give industry now compared with
and that's their thing. I am when you started?
totally different. I am a trader. I you a one-year grace
am a risk manager. I was very CE: Here is a crazy scat: when
successful on the floor because period. They realize I started business there were
I didn't go out of business. 300 hedge funds in the world.
that the is flat for There are now over 10.000.
I remember when I was 23 or We were the 165th biggest in
24. there were the "Michael
the year but the real 1990 with maybe $30 million.
fordans" and the "Tom market is not. There 155th in 2000 at around $1
Bradys" of the floor. They billion. and we were 177th in
were famous. They were the are 327 stocks down 2008 at $3 billion. No matter
big traders who traded how big we got. we never got
hundreds of lots.. there for this year out of 500 in any bigger relatively. It's
about six to nine months and symptomatic of the issues
a little baby trader at this the with a we're having now in our
point. I get tapped on the business. There's too much
shoulder by a veteran trader.
handful money in it.
He was one of the biggest outperforming."
traders in gold. He taps me on The business was an amazing
the shoulder one day and says, business when no one knew
"Hey. can I talk to you? difficult year as well. In fact, if what it was. In my world, at
wondering if I could borrow we fight back to even in two your age. mediocrity in my
some money from you. I had a years I will be happy. The key business made you very
little problem: I was short to our business, I've learned, is wealthy. People wanted to be
gold." Gold went crazy and he this: don't go down. It's fatal to invested in hedge funds. They
went out of business. a lot of firms. The average age didn't care if you were the
of a hedge fund that goes out best. They wanted to be in a
I said. "I don't have any money of business is seven years. hedge fund; that was the cool
to lend you—. 23 years We're on our 27th year. That's thing to be in the '90s. If you
old—but I appreciate that not by accident. We had 20 were just mediocre, making 8%
thought." I said to myself. years of never losing. We had a year. people were delighted
"Wow this guy was a 2008. we also lost 3% in 201 1. because they were doing it in a
millionaire." He was looking and now this year: three losing hedge fund as opposed to
for money because he went years out of 27. That's how doing it in a mutual fund. Now
out of business. I realized how you stay in business. you're in a position where it's
fleeting success can be in a not good to be a hedge fund
market, whether it's a stock A lot of very good investors unless you're really good at it.
market or a commodities have blown up. Some have
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People that were terrible were theoretically have catalysts. deal. Five days later they
making tons of money on and that has been a horrible announce a deal with Marriott
management fees. That all business this year. (MAR) at $70: a take-under. I
changed in 2008: they went had not seen that in 25 years.
out of business. Now, in our Did the catalysts not
business, if you're not in the come through or did the Now obviously there's more
top 20%. you don't make any catalysts not matter much? to the story. Maybe it's
money. and that's the way it because something is going on
should be. Like any business, CE: Some didn't come in the company that I don't
you should be required to be through and some came know about. We thought,
in the top percentile of through and ended up with bad "There are three buyers. We
performers to remain in results. I'll give you a case in are going to make a lot of
business. That's the new point which I find amazing. money." We lost 10%
dynamic, the new normal in my Starwood Hotels (HOT) went overnight on that trade. That's
world. If you aren't good at it, up for sale in June. The stock just one example of what is
you actually are out of at the time was at $80/share. going on this year.
business. Every year, I've got Everybody had a break-up
to be good again because there value of somewhere between Also, Mylan (MYL) was trying
are many options out there. $90 and $105. On June 15th. to buy Perrigo (PRGO) this
Whether it's another hedge when Starwood announced year. It was a big deal. Mylan
fund or a quant fund, there are that the company was up for came in hostilely and Perrigo
so many options that people sale, the stock was up a little had no defenses. They went
say. "Look, we love you as a bit that day. Then the market down to the last week, where
person. but you're making no they needed 50.1% of the
money for me." votes to vote "yes" for the
deal from Mylan. If you vote
Now for 2015. we are down "There are a lot of "yes," you make $20; it's that
between 10% and I I% at this simple. If you vote "no," the
things out there that
point, and we have had very stock will go down and you
few redemptions. I've learned are scaring me. But, lose $15. There's a $35
that people tend to give you a differential. In the history of
one-year grace eriod. They ■ paid to play, and the world, I've never seen
realize that the is flat for people vote without their
the year but the real market is that's what I do. But I pocketbooks under
not. There are 327 stocks consideration. Not only did it
down this year out of 500 in don't play with not go through. but also the
the with a handful deal lost by a lot.
leverage."
outperforming.
What I learned was that
Those are companies people like making money, but
like Google and Amazon? blew up and the stock was there are things they like
down into the $60s. By the more. In this case, they liked
CE: Out of those stocks that time the market came back the CEO of Perrigo so much
are up, it's about six that make about a month later, the stock that they felt badly for him.
a difference. That's not what I was at $75. They said, "Let this guy try to
do. I don't trade Google make it." They hated Mylan's
(GOOG) and Amazon In the first week of November guy.. not saying I loved him.
(AMZN). If I did, I wouldn't management announced there but he was offering me $20
need to be in this business. IN were three buyers. One is a more than where the stock
doing things that are "tricky" Chinese buyer who owns The was trading. They chose not to
or "clever." and not so much Waldorf; one is Hyatt Hotels take the $20 and lose $15
this year. obviously. It's not (H): and one was an instead. I thought it was a no-
just me. Because, as you know, undisclosed name. The stock brainer. It was the biggest
my world is getting destroyed. goes from $75 to $78 because position on the street and
We are trading on events that it's going to be an awfully good people got destroyed. Who
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would think that people would thought they would take the friends, and they're brilliant
throw off $20 and take a $15 money, because everyone guys, who have four or five-
loss? But, that's what we're takes the money. times leverage now, and I
reading now. always wonder. "How do they
That's what IN dealing with sleep at night?" If, God forbid.
Did they think there this year. The events space has something happens out of the
would be additional bidders? been a disaster, an unequivocal blue, the next day they're
disaster. Unless you're long losing something like 15% or
CE: No. we were already past Amazon and Netflix (NFLX) 20%. But look, that's how they
that. We thought initially there and the Jim Cramer FANG were brought up. I was
would be. Now it is the last stocks, you're having a really brought up a different way
day: it's over. Either you take lousy year. If you're an energy- because I was a commodities
the $20 or you table it. In all related guy. you're out of trader where leverage was a
my years doing this business, business. Things are bad in bad thing. You could get blown
I've never seen people not take retail, too. Macy's (M) is the away by being too big.
the money. It was a big gold standard and it is down
difference. Not like it was a $2 50% this year. Hospitals and For the last five years, it has
premium. It was $20 on a $140 HMOs were obliterated the been fine because the Fed had
stock. When things like that last two months, I don't know your back. It's been a very easy
happen in my world, it's hard why. If you're in the wrong market until this year. Once
to make money. make that sectors, you think it is a bear the Fed stopped QE the
bet every day of my life. It's market like 2008 versus the market became difficult. So
just how it goes. market being very quietly up what it really shows is that
1%. most of us have just been
MI: Do you know anything gliding along because of the QE
about the make-up of the wind at our backs. And now
votes? "Don't be so big that QE's done. that's why the
market has been flat. QE is
CE: It was every arbitrageur. where your eyes are over and now we have the
representing about 25% of the prospect of higher rates. There
float. They voted "yes," bleeding and you've are a lot of things out there
obviously. The indexers ended that are scaring me. But.
up voting "yes." which had got to get out. Size paid to play, and that's what I
been a big issue. When I heard your positions so that do. But I don't play with
the indexers were going to be leverage. Now, we do use a
voting "yes." I said, "This is you can withstand modicum of leverage, maybe
going to be a no-brainer." 120% gross, but not 300%
Every plain vanilla or Fidelity of what happens if you gross.
the world had a one-on-one
with the CEO on that are wrong." Could you go into a bit
Thursday of the vote. And that more detail?
guy pleaded. He said, "Guys,
you are going to end up You don't use a lot of CE: Our average exposure is
owning Mylan stock. He's a leverage. Was that a product about 120%. Our net is about
criminal: he does terrible of 2008 or have you always 45% long. That's where we
things. Perrigo has real brands. been more conservative? usually run. We go as low as
Give me a year to make this up 80% gross and 20% long.
to you. Just give me that year CE: No. it was a product of We're always long. You guys
and, if I don't do something in me being on the trading floor should know one thing the
that year, I'll get another and realizing what can happen. markets go up over time.
buyer." They bought into it. All Leverage is a two-edged That's just how it is. If you try
the institutions, which are the sword. It's wonderful when the to play the short game at the
main voters, all voted his way, trade is going up, but you're wrong time, you'll lose money.
and all turned on the day out of business quickly when it
before the vote. We all had goes the other way. I have You don't want to be short
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markets over a long period of the tax inversion. It was What students miss a lot is the
time. We all watched the ten- because AbbVie was scared of practical matter of the stock
year period from 2000 to getting yelled at by Obama. So For some of the short ideas, I
2010. That was a flat period. I they blew it up. They traded ask, "Do you realize the short
had never seen that before. from $250 to $150. Settled interest in this thing?" They
Remember, I saw gigantic around $180 for the next two realize there's not just a
periods. The '90s grew at or three months, then went downside of losing X amount
around 20% a year, the '80s back to $260. Now it's back to in an upside case. When you
averaged 10% or 15% a year. $220. What we have learned and the whole world are short
So 2000 to 2010 was an here is, "Don't be so big where a stock, you go out of business
interesting period. But, yes, your eyes are bleeding and too many times. People your
we're low-leverage guys. you've got to get out." Size age often don't understand
your positions so that you can technical aspects of the
Building on the topic of withstand what happens if you market. They understand that
risk management, let's are wrong. In Perrigo, we only a stock is not worth $20—its
consider a situation like lost 50 basis points on that only worth $10. Okay, that
Perrigo where what you break, because I knew I didn't doesn't mean it's going to $10.
thought would happen did not want to be selling it badly. It could go to $50 before it
occur. Can you talk about how goes to $10 and does that
you think about the next Normally, if been up for mean you made a good
steps? the year we probably would decision or not?
have risked 1.5% on that trade,
CE: I've learned over my many that's how good I thought it Some people will say in
years doing this that you never was. It was an overnight binary interviews that their best idea
sell the first day of a bad event. bet. That is not a big bet if it was long Apple. I ask, "Ok,
That is for amateurs because was 1.5%. But it is when you're when did you buy it and for
there are guys that are so big making a bet on red or black. what price did you buy it? Ok,
that their eyes are bleeding $220. Did it go up or down
and they have to get out. If you =: How concentrated are first?" They usually say, "Well,
look at where the stock is on your positions? it went down first." I say, "Oh,
day one versus day 30, 99% of okay. Where did it go to?" If
the time every sale you made CE: We have about 20, maybe he says, "To $85 or $90," that
was bad. You wait a month and 30, positions, and our biggest guy is not getting hired
then you can reassess. Perrigo are between 5% and 7%. We because he thinks that is okay.
is no different. Perrigo opened have nothing smaller than 1.5% He lost half his money on the
at $135.1 closed my eyes, I or 2%, and we average way to making three times his
didn't do a thing. It's now probably 4%. We're very money. Well he's out of
$150. Now we're getting out. focused on protecting against business at that point. There is
We made our $15 back. So the downside, and that drives no more company. It's easy to
now we broke even on the our risk management approach say, "Yeah, I owned Apple at
trade, but we lost the $20 we and portfolio construction. $200." But there is a middle
would have made. People have this view of hedge chapter there. It went to $80
fund guys, that they are like first, when Jobs was dying, then
People that sold on day one magicians and that there is $600. I don't look at a good
and day two and three, are voodoo going on. There is no investor as a guy who has lost
kicking themselves. Last year, voodoo. You guys are as good half my money first; that's
AbbVie blew up the big deal as I am at this. Your opinion is terr
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