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VGI rests on its longs, vowing to revive shorts when momentum snaps

Vesna Poljak

VGI Partners has threatened to unleash its radically shrunken short book on the market once again, but not while current conditions foster a "general disregard for basic fundamentals like accounting" says founder Robert Luciano.

New long positions in Nintendo and Olympus are the targets of its focus for now, after the $2.9 billion hedge fund corrected its period of underperformance against its benchmark, the MSCI World Total Return Index in Australian dollar terms.

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Vesna Poljak was The Australian Financial Review’s companies editor.

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