Baupost founder Seth Klarman told investors that the large amounts of stimulus that have been poured into the world’s economies are masking the severity of the problems caused by COVID-19. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more In a letter seen by the Financial Times, he said central banks had convinced investors that risk “has simply vanished.” He believes that as a result, the market is no longer able to serve as a mechanism for price discovery. Klarman criticizes the Fed The Baupost founder blamed the Federal Reserve for making it hard to determine how healthy the U.S. economy…
Baupost’s Seth Klarman: the Fed has broken the stock market [Q4 Letter]
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.