Doug Kass: Skeptical Growth Will Take Root

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DOUGLAS A. KASS, A LONGTIME SHORT SELLER, has added a weapon to his arsenal: old-fashioned long investing. As its name attests, Seabreeze Partners Long-Short looks for overvalued and undervalued stocks. The fund, with assets of more than $100 million, has a gross year-to-date return of about 17%. Kass, 60 years old, is a whirling dervish when it comes to investment ideas. His colorful and incisive conversation is eclectic, sprinkled with a wide range of topics and references, from macroeconomics to Woody Allen.

Kass has been president of Seabreeze Partners Management since 2001, the year he launched the hedge-fund firm. The ...

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