Paul D. Sonkin - Hummingbird Value Fund
Paul D. Sonkin is the Portfolio Manager of The Hummingbird Value Fund and the Tarsier Nanocap Value Fund. Paul is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on security analysis and value investing. He is a member of the board of several public companies including Meade Instruments Corp. He was previously a senior analyst at First Manhattan & Co., a firm that specializes in mid and large cap value investing. Before that he was an analyst and portfolio manger at Royce & Associates, the investment advisor to the Royce Funds. Royce & Associates practice small and micro cap value investing. Prior to receiving an MBA from Columbia University, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is a co-author of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond., (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2001.)
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Jacob Wolinsky Interviews Small Cap Value Guru Paul Sonkin
GuruFocus.com - 03.09.10
Mr. Sonkin was nice enough to offer over an hour of his time for our interview. In fact he was prepared to offer even more time if I had more questions for him. It was a pleasure conducting the interview with Mr. Sonkin.
Back-Alley Investing
Value Investor Insight - 11.30.09
Paul Sonkin doesn't consider himself spread too thin in keeping close track of the 100-position portfolio of exceedingly small-cap companies he owns. “An IBM or a Disney can have a single footnote longer than a lot of the entire annual reports I look at,” he says.
Paul Sonkin on Finding Micro-Cap Value
GuruFocus.com - 12.19.09
Paul Sonkin, a former student of Columbia University’s value investing program, is very well regarded in the value investing world. He now also teaches at Columbia University.
Intervew with Paul Sonkin
Street Capitalist - 08.10.09
Paul Sonkin, manager of the Hummingbird Value Fund, is an awesome investor and a great guy. I’m extremely grateful that Sonkin was willing to contribute his time to this interview (the first interview here at Street Capitalist). I wanted to interview Sonkin in particular because his fund employs a strategy accessible to all of us small investors. Some of the companies are absolutely tiny on a market cap basis and he goes after arbitrage situations that most investors will never hear of.
Paul Sonkin Interview
Graham & Doddsville Newsletter / Columbia Business School – Summer 2009
Paul Sonkin is managing member of the Hummingbird Value Fund. He has worked at the SEC, Goldman Sachs, Royce Funds, and First Manhattan Company. He holds an MBA from Columbia, where he
teaches courses on applied value investing.
Videos
Value Investor Paul Sonkin w/Forbes
Forbes Video Network – August 2009
Paul Sonkin of Hummingbird Value Fund discusses some of his small- and mid-cap stock picks.
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