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Investing in the age of Trump

Baupost Group's Seth Klarman offers his thoughts on the current state of the hedge fund industry in a private letter that he wrote to his investors

New York

HE IS the most successful and influential investor you have probably never heard of. His writings are so coveted and followed by Wall Street that a used copy of a book that he wrote several decades ago about investing starts at US$795 on Amazon, and a new copy sells for as much as US$3,500.

Perhaps that is why a private letter that he wrote to his investors a little over two weeks ago about investing during the age of US President Donald Trump - and offering his thoughts on the current state of the hedge fund industry - has quietly become the most sought-after reading material on Wall Street.

He is Seth Klarman, the 59-year-old value investor who runs Baupost Group, which manages some US$30...

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