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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Yost Partners was up 3.8% for the third quarter, while Yost Focused Long was down 0.6%. For comparison, the MSCI World was up 0.5% for the quarter. Year to date, both funds are up by about 15% net, slightly underperforming the MSCI World's 17.6% return.

Growing signs of a recession

In his third-quarter letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Carson Yost said he expects

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the last two months of the year to offer excitement as traders look to avoid the plunge experienced in the markets last December. He predicts "swift factor rotations and further unwinding of popular trades as investors attempt to...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.