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Carlson pushes for agreement with largest position, SWK Holdings: Q1 Letter [Exclusive]

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Carlson Capital's Double Black Diamond fund was up 2.17% net for the first quarter as most strategies contributed positive returns. Only strategic investments and credit posted negative returns. Although the firm kept its strategy allocation from the fourth quarter the same, it expects allocation to its event-driven strategy to rise going into the second quarter.

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Strength in event-driven strategy

In his first-quarter letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Clint Carlson noted that last year's historic recovery in mergers and acquisitions continues this year. First-quarter volumes brought the strongest beginning to...

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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.