Insider trading watchers tend to pay more attention to insider buying than insider selling because the latter is much more cumbersome to interpret (better say, impossible to interpret...
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April 22 - Insider Trading, News
The activist hedge fund industry oversees approximately $120 billion in assets under management, which enables activists to acquire stakes even in the largest U.S.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, News
According to fresh data from CNBC, the dollar value of all insider purchases in April has been the lowest in the past 11 months or so.
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April 22 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
According to fresh data from Hedge Fund Research, hedge fund clients pulled out $15 billion from the hedge fund industry in the first quarter of 2016, which represents the biggest...
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April 21 - Hedge Funds, News
The insider buying activity in the past several weeks has been muted ahead of the first-quarter earnings season. However, aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.
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April 21 - Insider Trading, News
Quarterly 13F filings are now flowing in for the first quarter reporting period, disclosing the most noteworthy moves made by widely-followed hedge fund vehicles throughout the...
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April 20 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Most insider trading watchers believe that insider buying is much more informative than insider selling, and rightly so.
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April 20 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Peter Lynch, an investment guru who managed to generate returns of 29% per annum during his 13 years at the helm of Fidelity Magellan, once said that “Insiders might sell their...
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April 19 - Insider Trading, News
Most investors and insider trading watchers believe that insider selling is not particularly informative or useful given the increased usage of stock-option-based compensation...
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April 19 - Commodities, Insider Trading, News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on track to reach a new all-time high after registering the worst five-day start to a year in its history.
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April 18 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
While the interpretation of insider buying activity is quite straightforward, heavy insider selling does not automatically raise red flags within the investment community.
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April 18 - Insider Trading, News
Some analysts and investors believe that value investing will achieve a comeback in the foreseeable future, as growth stocks have outperformed value stocks by a wide margin in...
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April 15 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
As a general rule, insider buying usually indicates that directors and executives of public companies find shares of their firms to be undervalued relative to the broader market...
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April 15 - Insider Trading, News
Numerous retail investors examine insider buying activity as part of their stock selection and analysis process, but only a few analyze insider selling.
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April 15 - Insider Trading, News
According to a fresh article posted by the Wall Street Journal, the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public employee pension fund in New York City, plans...
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April 15 - Hedge Funds, News
Officers and directors of publicly-traded companies have two means of buying or selling their companies’ shares: on the open market, or via pre-arranged trading plans, which...
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April 14 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
According to analysts at Morgan Stanley, traditional hedge funds experienced their worst quarterly performance since the financial crisis in the first quarter of this year.
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April 13 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Insider trading activity has been relatively weak this week, as the first quarter earnings season kicked off on Monday.
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April 13 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles available only to high-net-worth individuals, so most retail investors cannot afford the luxury of investing in a hedge fund.
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April 12 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
A Securities and Exchange Commission rule requires corporate insiders to report their securities transactions within 48 hours, but the interpretation of insider trading data has...
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April 12 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Billionaire Jacob Rothschild is a British investment banker and a member of the famous Rothschild banking family.
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April 12 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
The hedge fund industry recovered some losses incurred in the first two months of 2016 during March, which marked one of the best months for the industry in two years.
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April 11 - Commodities, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Last week’s dollar volume of insider buying, excluding those purchases made by top 10% owners who are mostly categorized as investors rather than highly-informed insiders, has...
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April 11 - Insider Trading, News
Slightly more than a decade ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that mandated significant changes to reporting requirements.
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April 11 - Insider Trading, News
Income stocks definitely need to account for a large share of one’s retirement portfolio, as most income stocks are usually associated with lower levels of volatility than the...
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April 9 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, Retirement
Numerous stock market watchers may be wondering how many hedge fund vehicles are able to generate exceptional trading profits over the long-term for their investors, but it is...
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April 8 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Market Movers, News
While it is widely known that corporate insiders buy shares of their companies on the open market for one simple reason – they believe Mr.
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April 8 - Insider Trading, News
Some retail investors may ask why anyone would track insider selling activity.
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April 8 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Many retail investors seeking to invest in the hedge fund industry may not have the necessary amount of capital to do so, but they can easily track hedge funds’ moves by examining...
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April 7 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The dollar volume of insider selling has been on the rise over the past several weeks, with voluminous insider selling at Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) and Apple Inc.
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April 7 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Aside from analyzing the financials of companies, which involves the analysis of their balance sheets and quarterly earnings reports, some investors also monitor insider trading...
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April 7 - Commodities, Insider Trading, Market Movers, News
Billionaire John Paulson, famed for making a whopping $15 billion by betting against subprime mortgages in 2007, founded hedge fund firm Paulson & Co.
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April 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Examining insider trading behavior should serve as a primary tool of fundamental security analysis, as investors need to know how insiders feel about their companies’ shares...
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April 6 - Insider Trading, News
Much research concludes that corporate insiders’ security purchases tend to beat broader market benchmarks on aggregate, but also finds that companies with heavy insider selling...
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April 6 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
The technology sector has slightly underperformed broader market benchmarks thus far in 2016, with the S&P North American Technology Sector Index returning 0.24% year-to-date.
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April 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman and Larry Robbins shocked investors and other stock market watchers with their losses in 2015.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, News
One metric commonly used to examine investing ideas is insider buying.
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April 5 - Insider Trading, News
Highly-scrutinized activist investor Bill Ackman is no longer on the list of the top 20 best-performing hedge fund managers, after Pershing Square Capital Management L.P.
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April 5 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
With most companies and stock market participants getting ready for another harsh earnings season, insider trading activity, particularly on the buy side, has been slowing quite...
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April 4 - Insider Trading, News
OrbiMed Advisors LLC is the world’s largest healthcare-focused investment firm, managing roughly $15 billion in net assets under management.
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April 1 - Hedge Funds, News
There may be a lot of reasons corporate insiders sell shares of their company, but there appears to be only one straightforward reason for insiders to channel their hard-earned...
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April 1 - Insider Trading, News
According to HFR, hedge fund clients pulled more capital out of the hedge fund industry during the final quarter of 2015 than they invested, marking the first quarter with net...
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March 31 - Hedge Funds, News
Previous research shows that insider buyers have a relatively good feel for near-term and long-term developments within their companies.
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March 31 - Insider Trading, News
As a general rule, stock market watchers mostly perceive insider buying as a bullish signal and insider selling as a bearish one.
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March 31 - Commodities, Insider Trading, News
After experiencing several years of expansionary monetary policy pursued by the Federal Reserve to stimulate the U.S.
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March 30 - Hedge Funds, News
The increase in home turnover and the home price appreciation, as well as the solid employment and wage growth, served as the main catalysts for growth in the U.S.
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March 30 - Economy, Hedge Funds, News
Past research shows that companies with high earnings multiples and insider selling tend to underperform stock market benchmarks by a wide margin.
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March 30 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Hedge fund closures reached the highest rate in 2015 since the financial crisis, according to fresh statistics.
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, News
