Paul Tudor Jones: "One of my no. 1 rules as an investor is as soon as my manager, if I find out that a manager is going through divorce, I redeem immediately. Because the emotional distraction that comes from divorce is so overwhelming..."
...The idea that you could think straight for 60 seconds and be able to make a rational decision is impossible, particularly when their kids are involved. You can automatically subtract 10 to 20% from any manager if he is going through divorce.”
Soros had a self-described burn-out and “kind of identity crisis” after his first divorce which was right before Jim Rogers left as his partner.

Ackman got divorced around the time he held the bag on $VRX?
Marc Rich blew $170 million trying to corner zinc the year his wife filed for divorce.
Other examples come to mind?
Can say from my own divorce: the years after I was angry, resentful, miserable. That was the lens through which I saw the world - and markets.

“Whatever you look for in markets, you will find.”
"their resignations seemed precipitated by the divorce. That caused us to think boards had a responsibility to have a grasp on the married lives of their CEOs."

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1 May
Will share some Buffett & Berkshire history.

1966: "Buffett explains investment goals" after taking an interest in Berkshire Hathaway
"We have no formal program of acquisitions. We like to put our money into things with good value and good management."
1965: when owning a net-net goes wrong.

1977: Retired fund manager "collects businesses for fun"

"I'm only going into businesses that I find interesting and where I like the people running them"
Read 20 tweets
29 Apr
Shoutout to the Khosrowshahi family. Wealthy Iranian industrialists who had to flee during the revolution.

Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber: “We were all on the ground, terrified. That was when my mom said, ‘We’re leaving.’ I’ve never been back.”
Ali Khosrowshahi had founded the Minoo Industrial Company in 1959, a manufacturer of cookies, chocolates, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

Other family branches included Tolypers, a chemical company, and a construction company, the Khosrowshahi Brothers Company (KBC).
“My father felt that he wanted to keep our wealth in [Iran], so my parents lost the vast majority of what they had.”
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28 Apr
Profile of Jeff Vinik who took over the Magellan fund from Peter Lynch then left to run his own hedge fund.

(Money Magazine, 2000)
Lynch's first successor lasted two years. Vinik took over in '92 at age 33. Soul searching at Wendy's over whether to take the job that could "wreck his family life." He lasted four years.
"To Vinik, the essence of investing comes down to this: a company's earnings ultimately drive the price of its stock. The key, then, is to predict whether that company will beat Wall Street's consensus earnings expectations."
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27 Apr
"This week, the Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index — which tracks key farm products — surged the most in almost nine years"

“There seems to be sort of a bullish force behind the prices internationally” Image
Fintwit's prices hikes and shortages! Where is the inflation? Is there inflation?? Let's find out!

(send me your inflation porn)
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26 Apr
Some additional resources to @B3_MillerValue's recent profile

"I’m just trying to understand the present."

"supercharged his personal bet on AMZN during the financial crisis, loading up on call options as the stock plunged"
barrons.com/amp/articles/h…
On Bitcoin
"It’s Economics 101. The supply grew 2.5% last year; it’s growing 2% this year. Is demand growing faster or slower than 2%? It’s that asymmetry between supply and demand that is leading to what’s going on."
Here is a profile from 2001, when Miller had just beaten the S&P ten years in a row.

Stocks were falling, Miller was buying:
"If you want to boil down everything we do, it's this: The guy with the lowest average cost wins."

archive.fortune.com/magazines/fort…
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14 Apr
It seems we’ve come full circle. 21 years after Julian Robertson retired, one of his disciples is reshaping VC.

From inception in 1980 until the summer of 1998, Robertson’s Tiger had been one of the most successful hedge funds ever.

He was about to be tested like never before.
1997 was a great year for Tiger. The Journal wrote he “mauled his rivals” with spectacular returns.
But trouble was brewing. AUM had grown from $9 million at inception to more than $20 billion leading to concentration and liquidity issues.

He was taking a concentrated bet in US Airways. Even Robertson conceded: “We probably own too much. We’ll have to sell some at some point.”
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