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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Complete Paulson 2011 Letter

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

There are those who voraciously, and blindly, read any and all hedge fund reports, allowing the already useless information to enter one brain hemisphere and exit the other, just so they can brag that they read such and such’s monthly or year end letter. Frankly, we pity them, especially when in their attempt to ape success they confuse luck (which is responsible for 99% of hedge fund outliers) for skill, and in doing so constrain their minds even more. At least hopefully they don’t spend money on self-improvement books. As for trading recommendations, by the time an idea is in writing, the time to implement it is long gone. Anyway, for precisely this subet of people we provide the Paulson 2011 year end letter. Which is 102 pages. It is amazing how when one is printing money, one can get away with two paragraphs of year end ruminations and the LPs will be delighted. When, however one has brought AUM from $32 billion to under $20 billion net of redemptions, much more reading material is required to justify the 2 and 20, especially if the proceeds are used to invest in AAPL (and speaking of Apple, we wonder how long before the company starts charging a fee of 2 and 20 from all of its shareholders). We won’t spend much time dissecting the letter of a fund which blindly invested nearly half a billion in a company that two kids with an office exposed as fraud, suffice to copy and paste the following gem: “We believe this outperformance demonstrates our superior security analysis and selection due to our research edge.” Yup, mmmhmmm. All this and much more in the enclosed paperweight.

Incidentally, when we said 10 days ago that we have “Horrible News For Goldbugs – Paulson Is Bullish On Gold Again“, we were not kidding:

And so the Paulson overhang is back. Couldn’t Paulson just go ahead and buy Bank of America or some other worthless biohazard again? All that remains is for Roubini to say he prefers gold over spam (and always has, he was merely “misunderstood”) and the crash will be imminent.

 

Or perhaps we will learn following the next $1000 up move in gold that Gartman will have been long gold in Vietnamese Dong.

 

Well, at least cheap entry points will be available.

So far the thesis is playing out, and the cheap entry points are here again.

 

h/t Valuewalk

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