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Leon Cooperman: 2019 Ben Graham VI Annual Conference [Notes]

Jacob Wolinsky
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Notes from Leon Cooperman’s keynote presentation from the 2019 Ben Graham VI Annual Conference, which took place on Wednesday, June 19.

See the full notes here.

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Leon Cooperman Letter

Keynote Presentation

Leon Cooperman

Chairman, CEO, Founder, Omega Advisors

  • Family office, retired, no clients
  • Leave when your up, don’t take away assets from your investors
  • Very hard work, luck, intuition
  • Intuition – quitting dental school in 8 days
  • Interviewing 1966, 16 job offers, Goldman, not the best offer at the time
  • Liked the people at Goldman
  • Friday 1976, Thanksgiving weekend, John White and John Weinberg, invited him to partnership
  • 40 million to 1.8 billion when he left
  • Get up at 5:10 leave late, start at 6:40
  • Doctor...

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Jacob Wolinsky

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 covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and six kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.