Third Avenue Management Decreased Public Storage (PSA) Positions for New Investments
Third Avenue Management, a disciplined, value-oriented asset manager and investment fund, published its third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 10.94% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, ahead of its FTSE EPRA NAREIT Developed benchmark that returned 10.32%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Third Avenue Management in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they sold some shares of Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) and used the earnings in acquiring a new investment position. Public Storage is a real estate investment trust that currently has a $39.228 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, PSA delivered a -3.70% return and settled at $224.39 per share at the closing of January 15th.
Here is what Third Avenue Management has to say about Public Storage in their Investor Letter:
"During the period, the Fund reduced its exposure to the common stock of Public Storage, Incorporated.- The proceeds from this reduction was primarily used to fund a new investment position."
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Last December 2020, we published an article telling that Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) was in 17 hedge funds’ portfolio. Its all time high statistics is 27. Public Storage delivered a 1.65% return in the past 12 months.
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