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 ECP | Luxemburg, 24.04.2020 We have been asked over the last days on how we exploit the current weakness in the oil price. For the ones believing in a swift oil price recovery, a simple and easily implementable trade is going long an oil ETF. We have two concerns with this strategy. First, as value investors we focus on earning power, namely the capacity of our investment to generate discretionary free cash flow. Unfortunately, a commodity does not generate cash flows …

 ECP | Luxemburg, 17.04.2020 The Economist run a cover last week with the title “The business of survival : How COVID-19 will reshape global commerce”. This is exactly what the managements of the companies we are invested in are doing: they make sure that their businesses survive. In a Darwinist approach of survival of the fittest, communication and public relations can sometimes become the collateral damage of this struggle. This is what happened to one of our recent additions to …

 ECP | Luxemburg, 03.04.2020 The broad market sell-off in March gave us the opportunity to enter the business of cancer treatment again. Not so long ago we sold our shares in Elekta around 135 SEK and now we had the chance to buy back the shares at prices 40-45% lower than when we sold them. This is an opportunity we only get every few years so we kept Elekta on our watchlist after we sold it in hope of getting …

 ECP | Luxemburg, 20.03.2020 As Luxembourg has gone into a complete lock-down and our Prime Minister declared the state of emergency, I wanted first to use the opportunity to wish your families and yourselves courage in this difficult situation. Personally, I take comfort in the fact that our governments have taken such steep measures to slow the outbreak. I also take comfort in the fact that I see in my surroundings a lot of solidarity, respect and sense of duty. …

Fonds mit Long/Short-Ansatz gehörten in den letzten Jahren nicht gerade zu den Lieblingen der Anleger. Eine Haltung, die man verstehen kann, denn oftmals gelang es den Produkten nicht, die in Aussicht gestellten Renditen zu erwirtschaften. Ein weiterer Grund für die vergleichsweise schwache Performance in der Vergangenheit: Die Möglichkeit, auch Shortpositionen einzugehen und somit von fallenden Kursen zu profitieren, brachte in der lang anhaltenden Hausse keine positiven Ergebnisse. Mit dem Einsetzen der Corona-Krise, die an den internationalen Börsen bereits für erhebliche …