Fund Makes Bank By Investing Only In Stocks BDS Urges To Divest

“Any reasonably smart Israel portfolio is going to do well.”

New York, January 22 – A securities-trading firm announced today that its most successful package of equity issues for the last five years consists only of shares in companies that have resisted the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement targeting Israel, outpacing its next-most-profitable offering by nearly eight percent in an already-lucrative period for the firm’s clients.

Diamond-Romm, LLP, which handles portfolios that include private equity, government-issue bonds, corporate bonds, and stocks, among other fiduciary assets, reported Monday that their Blue and White Fund, which restricts itself to stocks of enterprises that BDS has targeted, grew a cumulative 341% over the last half-decade, dwarfing the achievements of even its most profitable aggressive-growth fund, which grew by a comparatively paltry 195% over the same period.

DR executives attributed the success of Blue and White to a number of factors. “To begin with, Israel is just an excellent investment market,” explained Vice President for Research Vincenzo Giamatti. “The tech sector, and not only high-tech, keeps innovating in imaginative, lucrative ways. But its not only Israeli enterprises per se – international companies that partner with, or do significant business with, Israeli entities both civilian and governmental, report tremendous gains. The Israeli economy in general weathered the financial crises of the last decade-plus better than almost anywhere else. The growth potential remains enormous. Real estate alone is exploding. Any reasonably smart Israel portfolio is going to do well, and any reasonably-conceived presence of a multinational in Israel is going to do well.”

“Then there’s the nature of the companies that BDS targets,” added Blue and White fund manager Alfonso Gutierrez. “The group’s whole approach is to gain publicity by going after big names, but not names that they themselves use, even actual Israeli companies such as Wix, or other companies that maintain research or production facilities in Israel, such as Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple, and others. Think Caterpillar, for example. Their construction equipment looms large in the BDS mind. But Caterpillar is a good investment to begin with, and most companies like that actively seek lucrative growth markets such as Israel. The results should hardly surprise, from that perspective.”

Analyst Stephanie Klein, whose area of responsibility includes Blue and White equities, attributes some of the fund’s unusual extraordinary success to more metaphysical factors. “It’s basically cosmic irony and poetic justice,” she offered. “The magnificent success of Blue and White feels like a divine endorsement, and a statement that BDS will never achieve what it purports to seek.”

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