Jeff Matthews - Ram Partners LP
Jeff Matthews started as an oil analyst with Merrill Lynch in 1979 and founded Ram Partners LP in 1994. Ram Partners LP is a value oriented, long and short hedge fund with a focus on healthcare, consumer and technology investments.
In 2005 Matthews started writing JeffMatthewsIsNotMakingThisUp, a financial blog that was recommended by Barron's in 2006 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal's Market Beat. His book on the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha, is being published by McGraw-Hill on October 4, 2008.back
Articles
Amazon.com Climbs After Net Doubles, Beats Estimates
Bloomberg.com - 07.24.08
Amazon.com Inc., the world's largest Internet retailer, rose the most in a year in Nasdaq trading after second-quarter profit exceeded analysts' estimates because consumers bought video-game consoles online and the dollar's decline boosted international sales.
Where Have the Buybacks Gone?
WSJ.com - 01.24.08
In past market stumbles, investors could count on one thing to help stabilize the situation: a round of share buybacks. This time around, there are even higher hopes for such repurchases, given that the stock-market rout has made prices cheaper and falling interest rates make it less expensive to borrow money to buy stocks.
Finding Fat Pitches
Fool.com - 08.28.07
Many value investors preach the virtue of waiting for fat pitches. But how do you find a fat pitch? In baseball as in investing, you've got to seek situations that play to your strengths.
Hedge-Fund Manager’s Bet Against the Odds Pays Off Big
WSJ.com, 06.9.07
From the "a case study in stocks" department: Bucking the trend is what Connecticut hedge-fund manager Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners did early last year when his $60 million fund started buying beaten-down shares of Align Technology Inc., the Santa Clara, Calif., maker of the Invisalign invisible braces used to straighten teeth.
Dow Jones Shares Should Stand Tall
TheStreet.com - 05.03.07
Investors who bounded into Dow Jones' stock after they learned of Rupert Murdoch's masterful offer to buy the company on Tuesday now find themselves wondering if the Bancroft family has more backbone than they thought.