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Baupost Seth Klarman 2021 Letter on 2020


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Rational Advisor,

 

No.  One of the cobf members on this thread kindly pasted a link to the Financial Times, but it wasn't the letter.  It also had a paywall and I don't subscribe to FT.

 

So, no, I haven't seen the complete letter.  If you have a link or a method to it, let me know.

 

Thank you.

 

PS- Worst case, it will turn up at some point.

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Looks like the 2021 letter is out.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobwolinsky/2022/01/28/heres-how-seth-klarmans-baupost-is-tackling-investing-during-the-pandemic/?sh=55f3ffd47c0f

 

Let me guess, he's underperformed but blamed covid and/or some other things. But, they're working very hard and will maintain discipline? 

 

This is a jewel of insight about the "new definition of value investing"

 

"includes any investment, whether growing or not, whose current price is materially below its underlying value." 🤣

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Yup. Klarman is another clown. “I’m smarter than everyone else and my underperformance is better and more sophisticated than your outperformance so don’t question me and don’t you dare publish my letters”…LOL 

Yep if the letters (and performance) become well known, the mystique is gone. Klarman, Pabrai and whoever else. It's really hard to make millions (or billions!) of dollars if everyone realizes a simple index has done better. 

 

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Yea not to mention that none of these guys are transparent at all about how they even made their money to begin with. Most of them were given money from mom and dad or made it doing sleazy shit and really if you never once had to worry about the basic shit 95% of normal folks do, “managing money” is easy. IMO how and when folks get their first mil or two changes everything. The Einhorns of the world who graduated Ivy League and then were given a half mil to play with didn’t earn shit and never had to deal with real adversity. Can’t imagine life was too tough for the Klarmans of the world either.

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21 minutes ago, ValueArb said:

How did he do in 2007-2008? I can forgive someone with his style trailing during a big bull market, but isn't the point of his approach to outperform during bear markets/

We hear it all the time from bear oriented funds….why should we care about one year?
 

Especially 15 years ago….

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3 hours ago, Gregmal said:

Yea not to mention that none of these guys are transparent at all about how they even made their money to begin with. Most of them were given money from mom and dad or made it doing sleazy shit and really if you never once had to worry about the basic shit 95% of normal folks do, “managing money” is easy. IMO how and when folks get their first mil or two changes everything. The Einhorns of the world who graduated Ivy League and then were given a half mil to play with didn’t earn shit and never had to deal with real adversity. Can’t imagine life was too tough for the Klarmans of the world either.


gregmal you are ranting for the sake of it. Klarman’s start up capital source is on…Wikipedia.  Klarman got his startup $$$ from his HBS professors and he earned the carry  from there

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Klarman

 

 

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4 hours ago, stahleyp said:

Yep if the letters (and performance) become well known, the mystique is gone. Klarman, Pabrai and whoever else. It's really hard to make millions (or billions!) of dollars if everyone realizes a simple index has done better. 

 

Do you think Bauposts’ LP’s are unaware of the index’s performance? 

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Assuming HBS stands for…… Harvard Business School…then that’s kind of my point. None of these guys did real work or grinded through shit jobs saving their $100k a year for 5+ years hoping to launch their funds. They never put up with being shit on by bosses while working 12 hours a day. They were just given it. 

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3 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Assuming HBS stands for…… Harvard Business School…then that’s kind of my point. None of these guys did real work or grinded through shit jobs saving their $100k a year for 5+ years hoping to launch their funds. They never put up with being shit on by bosses while working 12 hours a day. They were just given it. 


sad you just spelt out my life :]

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Eh I guess my gist is that they’re spoiled brats who have these big egos and shrouds of secrecy, generally don’t like being transparent, and I find it odd people give a shit what they do or say because you can look at the results and see a lot of it doesn’t add up or that they make their money in deals normal people can’t do. There’s rarely anything replicable you can learn from their investment styles(other than being extremely arrogant and entitled) and even less from how they are as people. So when I see these “ooh what did Seth do?” Or “why did monish sell?”  “Eihnorn just bought XYZ” stuff it’s like who gives a shit. You have enough evidence to conclude the caliber of investor they are and don’t really need to read another quarterly letter making excuses about excess and the Fed and punch bowls and all that “I’m smarter which is why I underperform” crap.

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It’s far easier to respect and learn from people who earned it. Who build their wealth with their own hard work. You know they put their money where their mouth is. They grew from a base that most normal people can relate to. Rather than a privileged Johnny who’s spent his whole life being silver spooned…went to great school mom and dad paid for, never worked a real job, and often when he s wrong throws temper tantrums or blames everyone else which is the big thing I see over and over again with Klarman. His underperformance is always someone else’s fault.

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1 hour ago, Gregmal said:

It’s far easier to respect and learn from people who earned it. Who build their wealth with their own hard work. You know they put their money where their mouth is. They grew from a base that most normal people can relate to. Rather than a privileged Johnny who’s spent his whole life being silver spooned…went to great school mom and dad paid for, never worked a real job, and often when he s wrong throws temper tantrums or blames everyone else which is the big thing I see over and over again with Klarman. His underperformance is always someone else’s fault.

I guess where you see “silver spoon”…I see the son of a smart polish immigrant*, who grew up in a professional but by no means wealthy household, went to the unglamorous Ivy (Cornell) and graduated magna cum laude, then impressed  his rich professors at HBS who took a chance on him and proceeded to steward capital very well for 3 decades and has underperformed in the last decade.

 

I mean his first 3 decades of great returns were not “given to him”…he didn’t become a legend for no reason. 


have you learned anything from the senator’s son from Omaha? 

 

*who became a leading economist

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1 hour ago, thepupil said:

Do you think Bauposts’ LP’s are unaware of the index’s performance? 

 

Oh, I'm sure they're aware. I'm also sure they think they're brillant and feel they have "the guy" with Klarman. Never underestimate what ego will make you think.  I don't think most people are aware of his underperformance though. 

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