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McLain Capital 1Q20 letter to investors

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Jacob Wolinsky
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McLain Capital letter to investors for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020.

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McLain Capital Performance and Positioning Summary

For the first quarter of 2020, McLain Capital Fund I, LP returned +4.1%, net of all fees, outperforming our benchmark, the S&P 500, by approximately 25 percentage points. Throughout the first quarter, the fund’s net market exposure ranged from 20% to 35%, net long, with the fund initially positioned with gross exposures of 95% of capital long, 60% short. Given the extraordinary level of volatility in markets and the severe underperformance of many value-oriented strategies, I’m pleased with last quarter’s...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.