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.