Interview with Abba Horwitz, Old School Partners (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Zack Miller posted on: July 23, 2008 | about stocks: An interview with Abba Horwitz of Old School Partners was featured as part of our new subscription newsletter, Israel Opportunity Investor. Tell us a little about yourself and your fund. Abba Horwitz, Portfolio Manager: We started started Old School Partners in March of 1999. Since then, we’ve compounded a net return to investors of around 19%. We’re running the fund for the most part from Israel. With a junior partner, I’m managing roughly $60 million. What’s your philosophy? AH: We focus primarily on the small to mid-cap world. We apply a value approach. Basically, we’re looking for two things. We’re looking for value where there is a clear catalyst to unlock this value or cheap growth with value undiscovered, on the cusp of coming out. Unfortunately, I’m not a big... [read full story]