Robert Boucai’s Long / Short hedge fund has in its sights a new short, Blackbaud, Inc. (BLDB). Newbrook Capital has thesis in part based on the notion that, for the first time, a competitor with a much larger corporate footprint is entering the non-profit software market Blackbaud has long-dominated and they won’t be able to acquire the competition as in the past. Newbrook Capital: Blackbaud won’t be able to buy its way out of this problem There are numerous reasons why Boucai likes the short thesis in Blackbaud, but perhaps the most notable might be due to how the firm…
Newbrook Capital Issues Blackbaud Short
Mark Melin
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.