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Zeke Ashton From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York:

Dallas-based Centaur Capital launched the Centaur Value Fund in 2002, with less than $1m in assets and has since grown the fund to $110m, beaten the S&P 500 by 11% (on average) for eight years and delivered compounded returns of 16%. In addition to the hedge fund, Zeke Ashton, Centaur’s Founder also manages mutual fund the Tilson Dividend Fund, which has a five star rating from Morningstar.

Ashton honed his value investing strategy first working in risk management, and then as a writer for Motley Fool, where he had the opportunity to interview and pick the brains of top value investors. The daily deadlines and the chance to develop his own philosophy on value investing makes Ashton refer to his time as a financial writer as when he gained his “MBA in the stock market”.

“I think what sets us apart from a lot of people is the sense that I call boring is beautiful. We own a lot of businesses that do not have a great deal of style to them. We are not particularly stylish ourselves, but we find that our returns are very reliable because we own reliable businesses and we pay good prices for them,” commented Centaur founder Zeke Ashton to Opalesque’s Matthias Knab during a recent interview on Opalesque TV.

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