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Berna Barshay

Editor,

@HedgeFundGirl

  • Editor and Research Analyst at Empire Financial Research
  • Editor of the Empire Financial Daily and Empire Market Insider newsletters
  • MBA from Harvard Business School

About Berna

Berna Barshay recently launched a Substack financial blog under the handle @HedgeFundGirl, which is also where you can find her on Twitter. Every week, the @HedgeFundGirl free Substack addresses a topical aspect of the markets, ranging from breaking down an event in the headlines to deep dives into individual stocks or industries. A premium tier will launch soon with monthly reports and ongoing updates on Ms. Barshay's favorite stocks, which draw heavily from the worlds of consumer and media, small caps, and special situations. Ms. Barshay spent more than 20 years on Wall Street, beginning her career in equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs and later working as a buy-side equity analyst at Sanford Bernstein, where she covered global consumer cyclicals and conglomerates. Ms. Barshay spent time as an analyst at several long/short hedge funds, including Sky Zone Capital, Metropolitan Capital, Buckingham Capital, and LaGrange Capital, and as a portfolio manager at global reinsurer Swiss Re and at an ultra-high net worth family office. In 2020, after a long career managing institutional capital in US and European equities, Ms. Barshay pivoted to providing retail investors with investment advice and education, first at Empire Financial Research, and now at @HedgeFundGirl.

Berna's Articles

Sometimes it’s better to just keep it simple. As the great Warren Buffett famously said, “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” Alphabet (GOOGL), parent of Google, YouTube, Android, and a growing cloud computing business, is very much a wonderful company at a fair price, notes Berna Barshay, editor of Consumer/Culture/Commerce by HedgeFundGirl.
Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO) is a sporting goods retailer that sells a wide variety of athletic apparel and footwear for both individuals and team sports, sports equipment, as well as a broad array of products that support the outdoor lifestyle, writes Berna Barshay, editor of Consumer/Culture/Commerce by HedgeFundGirl.
Toymaker Mattel (MAT) has been a pretty terrible stock for the last 10 years. It currently sits around $21, less than half of its 10-year high just shy of $48, which was set back in late 2013. But the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon makes now a great time to re-assess the stock, says Berna Barshay, editor of Hedge Fund Girl.
When excessive optimism is broadly replaced with overwhelming pessimism, there will be investment opportunities…but you have to do your homework. The Netflix (NFLX) saga is a great example, writes Berna Barshay, editor of HedgeFundGirl.

Berna's Videos

In this webinar, Berna Barshay will discuss why Netflix (NFLX) was down so much after Q4 results, and what we can infer about the future of streaming and its competitive environment from this. There are two key questions she will be covering:


  • What will be the longer-term fallout from this shock to the stock?

  • Is NFLX stock a buy here?



Berna Barshay will talk about the issues happening in the supply chain for getting finished goods into the US for the holiday season. These issues—while serious—are transitory, and have caused some high-quality retail and consumer product companies to "go on sale" as we enter the beginning of the all-important holiday shopping season.

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