Carbon Investment Partners up 6% in first two months

Lee Bressler and Brandon Bradford launched Carbon Investment Partners on 1st November 2016 with backing from the family office of Rick Nagel and Acorn Growth Companies, a private equity firm.

The fund was up 5.7% in November net of fees and expenses. In its first two months, it was up 6.1%, ValueWalk. "Our results indicate that our process of researching and sizing our big and small ideas is working," Bressler and Bradford explained in a January 17 letter to investors. The letter notes investor meetings scheduled and building the business from its start-up size of $10m in assets under management.

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