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Morningstar Downgrades Sequoia Fund On Day Michael Pearson Gets Congressional Subpoena

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Mark Melin
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Sequoia Fund, which is known to highly value management teams when evaluating stock picks for its long-only mutual fund, lost big on Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a company with some of the most significant management problems in recent memory. Sequoia Fund had a management shake-up of its own recently. This management reshuffling, and its concentrated bet on the management team at Valeant Pharmaceuticals, have led to a downgrade by investment research provider Morningstar.

 

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Morningstar notes uncertainty as it downgrades Sequoia Fund, points to better days forthcoming

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.