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Avenir Capital 2Q20 Commentary

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Avenir Capital commentary for the second quarter ended June 2020.

Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Dear Partner:

The Avenir Global Fund (the “Fund”) increased 4.7% for the June 2020 quarter bringing the past 1-year return to -11.6% (net)1. The MSCI ACWI index (AUD) returned 6.0% for the quarter and 4.1% for the past year. In local currency terms, the portfolio increased in value by 14.7% during the quarter but currency moves, which provided a useful buffer during the first quarter of the year, proved a headwind during the June quarter, reducing the return by 10.1%.

The second quarter of the year saw equity markets make similar spectacular moves to the first quarter, except in this case, in the...

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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