Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management company, released its “Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund” third quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. In the third quarter, the fund delivered negative returns. The portfolio recorded impressive gains at the beginning of the quarter. In contrast, there was a disappointing selloff at the end of the quarter. The Russell Midcap Growth Index was 0.65% down compared to a 4.92% decline for its counterpart, the Russell Midcap Value Index. In addition, you can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2022.
In the third-quarter letter, Carillon Tower Advisers discussed stocks like LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA). Based in San Diego, California, LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) is an integrated platform provider for brokerage and investment advisory services. On October 27, 2022, LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) stock closed at $252.34 per share. One-month return of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) was 16.57% and its shares gained 54.42% of their value over the last 52 weeks. LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) has a market capitalization of $20.129 billion.
Carillon Tower Advisers made the following comment about LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) in its Q3 2022 investor letter:
“LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) is an independent broker-dealer that offers technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to financial professionals and institutions. The firm’s shares continued their streak of steady outperformance due to the earnings leverage associated with the aggressive and ongoing U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) policy that has resulted in interest rates rising dramatically and quickly. LPL also largely avoids the potential uptick in credit risk that is often experienced by more traditional banks in periods of economic stress.”
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LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 47 hedge fund portfolios held LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) at the end of the second quarter, which was 47 in the previous quarter.
We discussed LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) in another article and shared Baron Funds’ views on the company. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
Interactive Strength Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNR – d/b/a/”FORME”) operates a digital fitness platform that combines premium connected award-winning fitness hardware products with 1:1 personal training and coaching (from real humans) to deliver an immersive experience and better outcomes for both consumers and trainers. Management believes that TRNR is the pioneer brand in the emerging sector of virtual personal training and health coaching. Moreover, this approach accelerates a powerful shift towards outcome-driven fitness solutions. It is part of a growing group of emerging companies that seek to leverage the Internet to provide users with a gym like experience within the comfort of their homes, however TRNR is differentiated with a virtual personal training offering and business model that capitalizes on time-zone efficiency. The Company recently announced the signing of an LOI to acquire a profitable, growing connected fitness business, which could dramatically changes outlook, revenue, profitability, and valuation for TRNR. The acquisition expected to close by the fourth quarter of 2023.
Warren Buffett never mentions this but he is one of the first hedge fund managers who unlocked the secrets of successful stock market investing. He launched his hedge fund in 1956 with $105,100 in seed capital. Back then they weren’t called hedge funds, they were called “partnerships”. Warren Buffett took 25% of all returns in excess of 6 percent.
For example S&P 500 Index returned 43.4% in 1958. If Warren Buffett’s hedge fund didn’t generate any outperformance (i.e. secretly invested like a closet index fund), Warren Buffett would have pocketed a quarter of the 37.4% excess return. That would have been 9.35% in hedge fund “fees”.
Actually Warren Buffett failed to beat the S&P 500 Index in 1958, returned only 40.9% and pocketed 8.7 percentage of it as “fees”. His investors didn’t mind that he underperformed the market in 1958 because he beat the market by a large margin in 1957. That year Buffett’s hedge fund returned 10.4% and Buffett took only 1.1 percentage points of that as “fees”. S&P 500 Index lost 10.8% in 1957, so Buffett’s investors actually thrilled to beat the market by 20.1 percentage points in 1957.
Between 1957 and 1966 Warren Buffett’s hedge fund returned 23.5% annually after deducting Warren Buffett’s 5.5 percentage point annual fees. S&P 500 Index generated an average annual compounded return of only 9.2% during the same 10-year period. An investor who invested $10,000 in Warren Buffett’s hedge fund at the beginning of 1957 saw his capital turn into $103,000 before fees and $64,100 after fees (this means Warren Buffett made more than $36,000 in fees from this investor).
As you can guess, Warren Buffett’s #1 wealth building strategy is to generate high returns in the 20% to 30% range.
We see several investors trying to strike it rich in options market by risking their entire savings. You can get rich by returning 20% per year and compounding that for several years. Warren Buffett has been investing and compounding for at least 65 years.
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