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Farnam Street Investments October 2022 Commentary: On Change

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Jacob Wolinsky
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On Change

Heraclitus famously observed 2,500 years ago that change was the only constant in life. If we’re striving to be consistent, principled investors, what’s an intelligent approach toward the inevitably of change?

How do we maintain pliability without chasing fashion? How do we stay resilient without becoming brittle?

Are we all just strapped to the Rota Fortunae with no recourse?

Some investment philosophers have posited that every asset class can be reframed as either long or short volatility. Said another way, are you helped or harmed by change? Whether well-articulated or not, it’s quite possible every investment decision is nothing more than a bet for or against change.

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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