gauging competence and integrity Tom Finke claims that he and the other appointees of the Jefferies/MassMutual private placement group are more experienced, but I can't see any track record of success in investing there. I see a series of relatively brief stints at various investment firms, but no track record. The only thing I can find in that regard is that he was Chairman and CEO of Adara Acquistion Corp, a SPAC now known as Alliance Entertainment (AENT $3.41), down 66% from IPO price of $10 in Feb,. 2021 because they over-paid for a dying distributor of DVDs they bought for $480M near the height of the SPAC insanity. https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2022/06/23/adara-alliance-entertainment-spac-480m-merger.html They claimed to be paying 6.3x TTM EBITDA of $76M (EV paid was $480M), but EBITDA immediately plummeted to a negative number in FY 2023, and looks like it will be $30M in FY 2024. So while everyone makes mistakes, and Mithaq's debacle with Children's Place (PLCE) is looking alot like Eddie Lampert with Sears or Ackman with JC Penny, at least Mithaq had a couple of huge wins with the airport logisitics company John Menzies (MENZ LN) which they made 6x and Burford (BUR) which they tripled, and while they're down on Nexxen (NEXN) from their cost, it's a net cash balance sheet, seems to be growing, and trading at like 4x EBITDA and 5x FCF, which looks within the realm of reasonableness. So on competence, I am no where near accepting that Finke & Co. are the better alternative. And on integrity... well...