Annual Report Letters
Relative Predictability, By Gary Carmell, CFA
April 07, 2025Our theme this year is Antifragile, which is taken from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s best-selling book. It’s a term that he coined that goes beyond resilience or robustness. While resilient things resist shocks and stay the same, antifragile things improve from disorder, volatility, and stress. Taleb created this term because no word existed to describe things that gain from disorder, unlike fragility ...
Read MoreUnderstanding Potential Unstable Forces, By Steve Sherwood
April 07, 2025Over our 56-year history, CWS has endeavored to become not only resilient but increasingly Antifragile. It has also been the case that when there is widespread fragility, we have been able to make some of our best investments. I want to do a deeper dive into some of the fragility that is present, which will probably continue to become more widespread, among some apartment owners. This is particula...
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Equilibrium, By Mike Engels
April 07, 2025At CWS, we see our investors as fellow partners in the assets in which we are invested together. We pride ourselves in open, honest, and transparent communications, both with good news and especially bad news, which can be harder to communicate. After a long-term positive run, it has been a challenging couple of years in apartment investing and real estate in general, manifesting itself at CWS in ...
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