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Joel Greenblatt Owned Hedge Fund On Why Value Investing Isn’t Working Now

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Acacia Capital was up 12.27% for the second quarter, although it remains in the red for the year because of how difficult the first quarter was. The fund is down 14.25% for the first half of the year.

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Top five holdings

Acacia's top five holdings accounted for 29.6% of its portfolio. They are LafargeHolcim, Howden Joinery, Irish Continental Group, Mohawk Industries and Ryanair, according to the fund's second-quarter letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk.

LafargeHolcim is the biggest cement and aggregates manufacturer in the world. It was formed by the 2015...

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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.