Was Our Money Manager Kidnapped? – Ep 64

This had never happened before. Several clients reached out to Vitaliy wondering if he had been kidnapped and someone else was making investment decisions in their accounts. The gist of their questions was: how you can go from making conservative...

This had never happened before. Several clients reached out to Vitaliy wondering if he had been kidnapped and someone else was making investment decisions in their accounts. The gist of their questions was: how you can go from making conservative investments to buying a dotcom-like stock that is losing money? How can this company even be a value investment? In this podcast, Vitaliy explores his firm’s investment in Uber, and how it fits within a value investing framework.

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