Carlson Capital returned 1.28% for January, meaningfully outperforming the S&P 500’s 5.2% decline. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more A Strong Month For Carlson Capital In the fund’s February letter to investors, which was obtained by ValueWalk, Clint Carlson said their return was ahead of his expectations, but January tends to be a strong month for them. He observed “more than the usual number of year-end opportunities in oversold securities and sectors” and strong mean reversion. Carlson explained that Carlson Capital’s center book was heavily weighted toward mean-reversion trades and drove most of the fund’s performance in January….
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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.