Kerrisdale Capital Delivers In February, Sticks With Herbalife Ltd.

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Mark Melin
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Kerrisdale Capital, with $283 million under management, generated 3.37% performance in February after experiencing its largest loss in history in January, -5.94%. Kerrisdale Capital’s strong numbers The long / short fund has a three year annualized return of 50.61%, versus 14.32% for the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX), and a 860.51% cumulative return since inception, versus 123.31% for the S&P 500. Kerrisdale Capital and Herbalife The fund found itself involved in the Carl Icahn / Bill Ackman Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) dispute in March, as it confirmed its investment and said it would hold its 230,000 share position, a 4.9% weighting in the…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.