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Black Bear Value Partners LP 2019 Letter: The Importance of Game Selection & Runways

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Black Bear Value Partners annual letter to investors for the year ended December 31, 2019.

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“Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

To My Partners and Friends:

  • Black Bear Value Fund, LP (the “Fund”) returned +6.5%, net, in 2019.
  • The S&P 500 returned +31.5% in 2019 while the HFRI index returned 13.6%
  • We do not seek to mimic the returns of the S&P 500 and there will be variances in our performance.

In 2019 our equity portfolio contributed meaningfully to our overall returns. Our shorts suffered as both bond and stock markets significantly rallied. Our prospective returns look attractive with a cushion to the downside. The portfolio...

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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.