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Thursday, May 26, 2022

The Rise and Fall of Cathie Wood

The Rise and Fall of Wall Street’s Most Controversial Investor
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-cathie-wood.html

A piece from August 2021:
God, Money, YOLO: How Cathie Wood Found Her Flock
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/business/cathie-wood-ark-stocks.html
She may also be a victim of her own success. Ark has far more money to invest than it did just 18 months ago, and spending it poses a challenge. The kind of technology stocks the company has traditionally favored are small and lightly traded, so big bets can move their prices sharply. Ark risks bidding the price up when it buys, then taking a big hit when it sells because such stocks often have few buyers.
Also, many of the stocks that Ms. Wood buys appear highly correlated — they go up together — which worked out well last year. But they also go down together, exposing her to crushing losses when market conditions turn against her”.