Eric Gregg of Four Tree Island wins SumZero's Q2 Investment Competition with his pitch on WLFC:US

Over the course of the second quarter, SumZero community members competed for the top spot in SumZero's Investment Competition. All ideas shared with the community during Q2 were voted on by our buyside community. The winner, with a near perfect score from his peers, was Eric Gregg of Four Tree Island Advisory. Eric is a long-time contributor to SumZero, and one of the more prolific in the community. His track record on the site is incredible – having shared nearly 40 ideas to date. Those ideas have outperformed their respective benchmarks by nearly 17%.

A few weeks back, we had an opportunity to sit down with Eric to discuss Four Tree Island and his thesis on WLFC. The written thesis can be found here, Willis Lease Finance Corp (WLFC:US), and our discussion is being made available here as well.

The Q3 Competition is currently open, with over 75 folks having already participated to date. In Q3, there are a couple of new wrinkles that we've mixed in – not only a community vote, but we've also assembled a 30+ person judges panel from our allocator community. The top 10 ideas, as voted on by the buyside community, will be sent directly to our allocator panel for review and vote. The winner will be chosen from the combined community + panel vote.

In addition to the winner joining us for a podcast that will be highlighted across our networks, they will also receive a $5k check for their efforts – up from the $2,500 check we were able to share for the Q2 winner.