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Rowan Street Capital 3Q18 Letter Up 26% YTD, What Worked And Why?

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Rowan Street Capital letter for the third quarter ended September 30, 2018.

Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

Rowan Street Capital

Dear Partners,

Third quarter was uneventful (flat) in terms of market price movement for our fund’s portfolio. As of September 30, our fund was up 26% in 2018 (before fees) versus 10.6% gain for the S&P 500. In terms of portfolio positions, however, our fund has seen quite a bit of activity.

Our guiding principle #9 outlined in the Appendix of this letter, which we highly encourage all of you to read, is “Do a lot of reading and thinking and not a lot of acting.” In that we are sort...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.