Oakmark Select Fund, an investment advisory firm that provides asset and wealth management published its third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be seen here. A return of 5.2% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, trailing below its S&P 500 benchmark that returned 8.9%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Oakmark Select Fund, in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they were able to distinguish the value of Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA) and initiated sold their position in the company. Qurate Retail, Inc. is a media conglomerate that currently has a $4.9 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, QRTEA delivered a 56.69% return and settled at $11.83 per share at the closing of January 15th.
Here is what Oakmark Select Fund has to say about Qurate Retail, Inc. in their Investor Letter:
“We eliminated our position in Qurate Retail during the quarter. The company is still selling at a discount to our estimate of its intrinsic value; however, that discount has narrowed as its stock price benefitted from the increase in online shopping during the quarantine. As such, we don’t believe the stock is attractive enough to merit holding in a concentrated portfolio.”
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Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Qurate Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: QRTEA) was in 41 hedge funds’ portfolio, almost making to its all time high statistics of 43. Qurate Retail, Inc. delivered a 132.76% return for the past 12 months.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 216% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 121 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds’ poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
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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.
So, how did Warren Buffett manage to generate high returns and beat the market?
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