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Global Allocation Fund October 2018 Commentary – We are watching the first innings of a much larger market disruption

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Jacob Wolinsky
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Global Allocation Fund commentary for the month ended October 31, 2018.

Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

October has been a carnage specially for equity markets.

The starting point has been an acceleration in the ongoing process of higher government bond yields globally, affecting other assets through higher discount rates.

Global Allocation Fund October 2018

It seems this was initially the reason, but it is certain that we have witnessed bigger corrections to those assets which had more expensive valuations, as has been the case of Nasdaq 100 or the Russell 2000.

We concentrated our short exposure precisely in those two indices during most of the month, until we reached certain oversold levels...

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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.