This hedge fund is struggling with costly shorts in 2019

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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RBI Capital Partners’ long/ short fund was up 0.2% gross and down 0.3% net for the third quarter after strong September gains of 8.9% gross and 8.8% net. On a year-to-date basis, the long/ short fund is down 6.2% gross and 7.6% net. RBI’s short-only Kodiak fund was down 6.2% gross and net for the third quarter following a gross and net decline of 0.3% for September. Year to date, the fund is down 22.1% gross and net.

Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

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RBI’s long portfolio produced about 500 basis points of positive alpha during the third quarter, with key contributors being Express, WW International and Urban Outfitters. Detractors on the long side were Unit Corp., Viacom and Delphi. The fund’s short portfolio produced about 280 basis points of negative alpha during the quarter. Netflix,

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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.