Mohnish Pabrai may be best known to the world for his hedge fund or for his books such as The Dhando Investor, but on this site it’s for his relatively new Spinoff Portfolio. Unfortunately, despite strong backtested results, 2018 was a rough year for the portfolio. Four of out five names finished in negative territory for the year,… Read More »
A few weeks ago we highlighted Mohnish Pabrai’s S&P crushing Spinoff Portfolio. While the historical results were merely backtested, 2018 has gotten off to a tremendous start. Despite a big decline at Adient (ADNT), the fund was boosted by General Dynamic’s (GD) ~$9.6b (including debt) takeover of government IT services provider CSRA (CSRA). The deal is actually an all cash… Read More »
Columbia Business School publishes an investment newsletter featuring ideas from students and interviews with asset managers. The Winter 2017 edition of the aptly titled Graham and Doddsville was just published and it features a conversation with the managers (incidentally both alums) of Kingstown Capital, a value oriented, special situations focused fund. The interview includes the G&D standard ‘how did you… Read More »