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After Rough 2018 Mohnish Pabrai Laments: Mr. Market Has Been “Quite Stupid” On Fiat Chrysler

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Now that 2018 is over, many hedge fund managers are read to close the book on it. For some, including Pabrai Investment Funds, the losses were sizeable.

In his January letter, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Managing Partner Mohnish Pabrai reported that the firm's three funds were all deep in the red for 2018. The highly-respected manager cited "irrational declines" in their two largest positions, which ironically were the reasons his fund did so well in 2017. One fund (PIF2) was down 35.3% for 2018, while the second (PIF3) was down 41.9% and the third (PIF4) was down 22.8%

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.