Estimated return — disclosed long book
What Punch Card Capital LP’s US-listed long positions did, derived from the share counts and market values in consecutive 13F filings, shown against SPY over exactly the same quarters. This is not the fund’s return. A 13F excludes shorts, bonds, cash, non-US listings and derivatives, says nothing about fees or leverage, and only sees positions held at both quarter ends. The fund figure is a price return while SPY is a total return, so the comparison is tilted against the manager by roughly a dividend yield.
Q3 2014
+3.9%
SPY +1.1%▲ +2.8%
2014 YTD(3Q so far)
+14.0%
SPY +8.2%▲ +5.8%