Manager Spotlight: Phil Pecsok of Anacapa Advisors Started a Hedge Fund on a Bet with Charlie Munger

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Warren Buffett famously said that no active manager could beat the market, and his long-time partner Charlie Munger agreed. However, Phil Pecsok set out to prove both of them wrong. He started his hedge fund, Anacapa Advisors, after betting Munger that he could beat the market.

On a long-term basis, Pecsok has certainly proven Buffett and Munger wrong with long-term returns that have outperformed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100.

Background on Anacapa Advisors

Anacapa Advisors is a California-based, market-directional investment manager that utilizes a long-biased hedge fund approach. The fund provides investors...

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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.