Sentences with phrase «made concentrated bets»

You will hear a lot, always after the fact, about the supposedly brilliant people who made concentrated bets and hit the lottery.

You're basically leveraging up to make a concentrated bet on a single asset that hopefully goes up.

Hagstrom says that to excel in today's environment, investors must be willing to make concentrated bets which means that one should not invest in more than 20 stocks.

For a mutual fund company, Steadyhand takes an unconventional approach by offering low - cost funds, co-investing along with clients, hiring portfolio managers who make concentrated bets on their «best ideas», behaving like part - owners of businesses and promising to close its funds to new investors when the fund gets too large.

Not exact matches

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

Our service gives the investor an ability to see exactly the risks the fund manager is taking and the concentrated bets he / she is making well in advance of the quarterly statement.

Doing the math, Pabrai seems likely to hold around 11 - 12 positions, which is still fairly concentrated, although provides some diversification out of equity specific risk (non market risk) and makes «riskier» bets a smaller proportion of his portfolio.

One definition of a «stock pickers» market» is a tailwind for concentrated bets, even if they are made by the unskilled investor.

Unless you're looking to make extremely concentrated bets on a narrowly focused group of investments, you can stop poring over every new fund offering.

Mutual fund managers willing to make «big bets» by concentrating their portfolios» assets have outperformed managers with more highly - diversified portfolios.