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"Olesen Value Fund is a concentrated, bottom-up global value fund focusing on neglected micro-caps and contrarian equities, delivering 13.1% annualized net returns since 2008 with an investor-friendly 0% management / 20% performance fee structure."
Olesen Value Fund L.P. is an unconstrained, concentrated global value fund managed by Christian Olesen (founder of Olesen Capital Management LLC). The fund focuses on neglected micro/small caps, contrarian opportunities, and event-driven special situations. Operating with a long-only, zero-leverage profile, the fund typically holds 10-20 highly researched positions. Since its inception in Dec 2008 through Dec 31, 2025, the fund generated a net return of 715% (13.1% annualized) compared to 573% (11.8% annualized) for the MSCI AC World Index. Olesen maintains 100% of his investable assets (excluding rainy-day cash) within the fund. Key terms include a 0% management fee, 20% performance fee with a high watermark, and monthly liquidity with 90 days' notice.
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Algorithmic conviction, macroeconomic posture, and risk appetite signals extracted from this quarterly letter with qualitative explanations.
Market Conviction
The score of 0.85 reflects the fund's highly concentrated target portfolio of 10-20 long positions and the manager's 100% personal investment commitment within the fund. The deep case studies illustrate a highly declarative and robust analytical approach to individual positions.
Growth Outlook
The score is set to 0.50 as the manager is primarily a bottom-up investor who does not provide an explicit top-down view on macro market trends or indexes, focusing instead on individual asset mispricings.
Risk Appetite
The score of 0.75 is assigned because the fund runs a long-only, unhedged equity strategy focused on concentrated positions, though it avoids leverage under normal circumstances.
Capital Deployment
Assigned a neutral score of 0.50 as there are no disclosures or specific metrics reflecting cash inflows, outflows, or net changes in capital deployment levels for the reported period.
Forward Guidance
The score is set to 0.50 as the presentation describes a standardized, continuous investment process but lacks explicit commitments or signals regarding future buy/sell targets for the current period.
Language Signal
A score of 0.70 represents constructive language throughout, framing stock price volatility as a source of market opportunity and intrinsic value capture, balanced by a rigorous margin-of-safety focus.
Perceived Risk
A score of 0.45 is given as risk is defined as permanent capital loss rather than price volatility, with standard disclosures of volatility and capital loss risks being balanced by rigorous balance sheet filtering.
Opportunity Density
The score of 0.80 highlights the manager's view that the global micro-cap universe and contrarian space offer thousands of underfollowed, mispriced opportunities with very low institutional competition.
Time Horizon
A high score of 0.90 is assigned because the fund explicitly targets long-term compound gains and states that its strategy is suitable only for long-term oriented investors who can withstand near-term volatility.