The fourth quarter of last year came as a respite for most equity investors who saw the value of their holdings plummet quite significantly amid a rout in the overall market during...
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March 2 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Just recently, iconic investor Warren Buffett said that investors should not mimic his investment picks or those of other highly-successful money managers.
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March 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Although Los Angeles-based, biotech-focused hedge fund DAFNA Capital Management has been in operation for the past 17 years, chances are that very few people have heard its name...
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March 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
U.S airline stocks enjoyed strong rallies in 2013 and 2014, but suffered a disappointing 2015, with most airline stocks having ended the year in the red.
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March 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Kylin Management is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Ted Kang, a former Tiger Management employee, in December of 2005.
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February 29 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds
2015 was the most volatile year for the Chinese equity markets in almost a decade.
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February 29 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Though Alan Howard's Brevan Howard is among the largest macro hedge funds in the world, its U.S equity portfolio has historically represented just a fraction of its total assets...
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February 27 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Diversification has been a buzzword in the investment industry for a long time.
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February 27 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Lansdowne Partners is a U.K.-based hedge fund founded by Sir Paul Ruddock and Steve Heinz in 1998, making it one of the oldest in Europe.
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February 26 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Do individual investors want to invest like George Soros, Carl Icahn or Barry Rosenstein? The answer would most probably be affirmative, but how is it possible to track hedge ...
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February 25 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Market Movers, News
The Goldman Sachs Group recently came out with a list of Internet stocks that it thinks investors should buy at current levels.
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February 25 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
It is commonly known that investors pour capital into stocks for two principal reasons: annual income and long-term capital appreciation.
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February 25 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Sandell Asset Management is a private, alternative asset management firm founded by Tom Sandell in 1998.
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds
Billionaire Wilbur Ross Jr., widely known as a connoisseur of failed companies, has built his entire career around investing in distressed assets.
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller is famous for breaking the Bank of England in 1992, when, together with George Soros, he managed to book a $1 billion profit for Soros' Quantum...
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Brooklyn-born Israel “Izzy” Englander founded his successful hedge fund firm Millennium Management in 1989, with just $35 million in capital.
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
After they saw the value of their holdings plummet quite significantly during the third quarter, the last quarter of 2015 came as a respite for most equity investors.
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
At the beginning of 2016, York Capital Management sent a letter to its investors announcing that one of its top partner Michael Weinberger would be leaving the fund to start his...
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February 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital was among the few large equity hedge funds that bucked the trend and performed well last year.
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February 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
OZ Management is one of the world’s largest institutional alternative asset managers, with roughly $43.7 billion in assets under management as of February 1, 2016.
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February 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
New York-based activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP and its founder Jeffrey Smith have gained a lot of recognition in the last few years for their campaigns involving several...
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February 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Larry Robbins, the founder of Glenview Capital Management, has been among the most scrutinized and closely-watched hedge fund managers in recent years due to his bullish...
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February 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Rob Citrone's Discovery Capital Management recently submitted its 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing a U.S equity portfolio worth $...
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February 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital, widely known for betting against subprime mortgages and earning hundreds of millions of dollars from that bet, is making another bold prediction, ...
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February 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions, News
Established in 2002, Michael Kao's Woodland Hills, California-based Akanthos Capital has about $1.23 billion worth of assets under management.
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February 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones is one of the most successful traders in history, and widely-known as being an exceptional macro trader. Mr.
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February 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Moore Global Investments was founded in 1989 by Louis Bacon, who employs a macro approach to stock picking and has built the firm into one of the largest hedge funds around, with...
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February 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Paul Singer is one of the most revered hedge fund managers on Wall Street and makes the list of the top-20 most successful hedge fund managers in history, with Mr.
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February 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
In the last few years, we have seen billionaire John Paulson transform from a money manager who bets big on activist and merger deals to an activist investor himself.
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February 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Point72 Asset Management is a family office founded in 2014 by Steven Cohen, who previously ran the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. Mr.
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
With endowments exceeding $44 billion at the end of 2014, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is the largest charitable organization in the world.
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Despite being one of the few prominent investors in the world to recognize the bubble brewing in the subprime mortgage markets and the crisis it would lead to when it burst, Michael...
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire John Griffin, one of the most closely-watched hedge fund managers, founded his equity long/short fund Blue Ridge Capital LLC in 1996. Mr.
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Julian Robertson is widely-known for creating and developing a highly-skilled group of hedge fund managers known as Tiger Cubs.
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Taking into account that the broader market went nowhere last year and most large hedge funds suffered huge losses during that period, 2015 was a fine year for Chase Coleman's...
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February 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Renowned activist investor Bill Ackman has been removed from the list of 20 best-performing hedge fund managers in history, after his fund Pershing Square Capital Management ...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Michael Price is the founder and manager of New York-based MFP Investors LLC.
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
When it comes to following activist investors to generate market-beating returns, billionaire Carl Icahn probably is one of the best choices, since he has an exceptional track...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
David Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital in 1996 with $900,000, some of which was borrowed from friends and family.
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
2015 was the worst year for the hedge fund industry since the 2008 financial crisis.
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
While billionaire David Abrams may be somewhat reclusive, he is nonetheless well known in the investing world due to his stock picking skills and the performance of his hedge...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
A former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Leon Cooperman left the banking giant in 1991 to start his own investment firm, Omega Advisors.
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Following activist investors like Barry Rosenstein is one of the best ways to benefit from imitating the moves of smart money investors, mainly because activists usually don't...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The correction in crude oil and natural gas prices over the past many months has made several investors wary of investing in the energy sector.
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February 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Dan Loeb founded value-oriented hedge fund Third Point LLC in 1995 with only $3.4 million in capital, and since then, has become one of the most closely-watched hedge...
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February 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Ken Griffin’s Citadel LLC is once again a leading investment vehicle in the hedge fund industry, after struggling badly during the financial crisis of 2008.
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February 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The 2015 year didn't end on a particularly cheerful note for billionaire Seth Klarman's Baupost Group.
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February 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
New Jersey-based David Tepper's Appaloosa Management LP recently submitted its latest 13F filing with the SEC, revealing a 75% quarter-over-quarter rise in the value of its equity...
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February 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News