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Financials Bets Boost Vilas To Up 107% Returns In 2019

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Jacob Wolinsky
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The Vilas Fund's commentary for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019.

Q4 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Dear Vilas Fund Partners,

The Vilas Fund, LP had a good year in 2019, rising 106.7% vs the 31.5% return of the S&P 500 Index. Since the Fund began operations on August 9, 2010, it has compounded $1 into $3.77, which equates to an annualized rate of 15.2%, net of fees. Over the same time period, the S&P 500 has grown at 14.2% annually and has turned $1 into $3.49. While we are somewhat pleased with our showing this year, value shares have not begun the process of “reverting to the mean” when compared to their growth stock peers. With...

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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 worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid