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Part I: Foundations and Fund Economics

Chapter 4

Portfolio Construction and the Power Law

Portfolio construction is a firm's strategy made explicit. Fund size, number of companies, cheque size, target ownership, and reserves must be consistent, or the fund cannot be returned by a plausible outcome at the ownership the manager will actually hold.

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In this chapter

  1. 4.1Fund size is strategy
  2. 4.2Breadth versus ownership
  3. 4.3Reserves
  4. 4.4From model to decisions