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What You Eat Influences How You Invest

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Jacob Wolinsky
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ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Mitchell Kovitz, Founder and Principal of Kovitz Investment Group, and with Joel Hirsh, Principal and Portfolio Manager at Kovitz Investment Group. In this part Mitchell and Joel discuss how they define their best ideas, their investment mentors, favorite books, how Alexander Hamilton contributed to the country post revolution, if good health helps with investing, and allocating time just for thinking.

Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

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And then how do you position your best ideas?

So it’s an interesting question, in terms of how would you define our best ideas. Our biggest positions are the ones we’re most sure of. You know, the ones with the most upside are not always the ones that you’re the most sure of. And when I say most sure of, I mean truly that you’ve stress tested it, that the odds of losing money over five years is very low. So generally our largest positions are the ones that we think have the widest margins of safety. And if you were looking for the ones that have the most upside, they can be sprinkled throughout the portfolio really depending on quality of the business and price, yeah, and total exposure just in that area.

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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