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Argosy Investors 1H22 Letter to Investors

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Dear Investors,

2022 year-to-date performance was -25.4% in select accounts. The S&P 500 by comparison returned -20.0%. We ended the quarter with 50% of the portfolio in cash and equivalents, which means that these results would have been worse without the allocation to cash. Looking into why our performance lagged the market in the second quarter (and providing the same table from the first quarter for comparison), some of our worst performers continued to be our largest positions. With all of the positions except Arlo, I feel confident in the businesses long-term despite some potential headwinds this year. Clearly Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is contributing quite a bit to our underperformance this year.

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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 covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five 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.