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Jeffrey Pierce’s Patience Wearing Thin With Cedar Realty

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Mark Melin
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Is Snow Park Capital hedge fund founder Jeffrey Pierce sitting on top of the counter-trend trade of 2018? With the headlines warning of the Amazon Apocalypse, Snow Park’s stake in Cedar Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:CDR), pegged at 6.4% of the portfolio in a 1st quarter 2017 report, is a bet on retail malls that might be immune to Amazon but have fallen in value nonetheless. The problem is Cedar's underperformance relative to peers. Sources familiar with the situation now tell ValueWalk “patience is running thin” with the REIT's management, with more aggressive moves to change the board of directors potentially on the near-term horizon.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.