Venture Capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the speakers at the Next Wave Sohn Conference that is taking place in New York today. Palihapitiya was born in Sri Lanka and...
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May 4 - News, Tech
On Tuesday, the US stock market has dipped with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 trading over 1% in the red amid weaker-than-anticipated manufacturing data from China and a stronger ...
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May 3 - Market Movers, News, Tech
In a 'Breaking News' story, CNBC reported that billionaire activist Carl Icahn has dumped his position in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).
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April 28 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The S&P 500 opened lower on Thursday as investors refocus on the weak global macro-economic picture.
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April 28 - Market Movers, News, Tech
Although the S&P 500 is trading only slightly lower, the NASDAQ is sharply in the red due to several tech earnings reports released yesterday after the closing bell.
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April 27 - Market Movers, News, Tech
Jim Chanos' Kynikos Associates reported an equity portfolio worth $190.41 million as of the end of 2015, which consisted of long positions in several companies, such as The ...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital had a disastrous 2015 as the fund posted losses to the tune of 20%. This marked the second losing year in the firm's almost 20-year history.
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Internet had a huge influence on our lives and changed the way we do many things from booking hotels to obtaining college degrees.
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April 15 - News, Tech
One of the most innovative group of companies in the stock market are semiconductor companies.
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April 15 - News, Stock Analysis, Tech
The Ira Sohn conference is an event that features some of the most important people from the investing community, which share their insights in the name of a noble cause.
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April 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Billionaire David Einhorn is one of the most-followed Wall Street activist investors and the founder of Greenlight Capital.
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April 13 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The business essentially operates as a monopoly in its core computer and data center markets and has numerous competitive advantages that are virtually impossible to replicate...
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April 12 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis, Tech
Billionaire Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital didn't suffer the same fate in 2015 as most of its large hedge funds peers.
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April 11 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
If one starts a discussion on activist investors or their campaigns today, there is only a slim possibility that the name Starboard Value LP won't come up.
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
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
Investing in large-cap stocks offer investors a lower exposure to risk from, but they are still prone to volatility, often mimicking the trajectory of the broader market.
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April 3 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Notorious Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek in his book "The road to Serfdom" said that "we can in a measure learn from the past to avoid a repetition of the same process...
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April 1 - News, Tech
Despite missing quarterly results, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)'s stock has had a stellar performance in the past several years, mainly because Elon Musk managed to turn Tesla...
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April 1 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Video game stocks had one of their best years in 2015, even though the broader market ended the year nearly flat.
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March 24 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
With the U.S dollar index up for the fourth consecutive day and oil prices trending lower, U.S stocks are slightly down this morning.
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March 23 - Earnings Report, News, Tech
As our world continues to become more and more tech-oriented, our demand for products ranging from smartphones, to semiconductors, to software and apps continues to rise.
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March 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Legendary Fidelity Magellan fund manager Peter Lynch once said that “Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the...
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March 18 - Insider Trading, News, Tech
Glenn W. Welling's Engaged Capital has filed a 13D with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, reporting its position in Magnachip Semiconductor Corp (NYSE:MX).
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Jonathan Barrett and Paul Segal's Luminus Management has filed a 13G with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in which it disclosed a 5.6% position in TerraForm Global ...
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
What are the best stocks to buy right now? We try to answer this question every day by tracking the moves of smart money and buyside analysts.
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March 9 - ETF Trading, News, Tech
Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track more than 700 prominent money managers...
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March 9 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Insider Monkey has processed numerous 13F filings of hedge funds and famous investors to create an extensive database of hedge fund holdings.
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March 9 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
How can one determine whether Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO) makes for a good investment at the moment? The Insider Monkey team analyzes the sentiment of a select group of top...
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March 8 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The Insider Monkey team tracks the activity of some of the best-performing hedge funds like Appaloosa Management, Baupost, and Third Point because we determined that some of the...
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March 8 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Concerns over a shift in Fed's easy monetary policy have hit several hedge funds hard during the third quarter. A number of sectors are in correction territory.
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March 7 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Reputable billionaire investors such as Nelson Peltz and David Tepper generate exorbitant profits for their wealthy accredited investors (a minimum of $1 million in investable...
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March 7 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The elite funds run by legendary investors such as Dan Loeb and David Tepper make hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves and their investors by spending enormous resources...
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
It's a little-known fact that stock performance is not evenly distributed (i.e. you don't have a 50/50 chance of picking a market-beating stock).
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from the nearly 800 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track at ...
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March 4 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Green equity investors are generally advised to start their investing activities by pouring some cash in mutual funds, index funds and exchange-traded funds.
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Last year was rather confusing for investors in the e-commerce space.
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Billionaire Jeffrey Ubben is among the few activist investors today who, unlike more aggressive activists that pressurize companies to accept their demands, focuses on establishing...
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The tech sector has always been in the spotlight as, over the years, many companies generated strong returns as the sector is undergoing a constant progress.
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February 28 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
At Insider Monkey, we track around 730 hedge funds and other institutional investors as part of our small-cap strategy (see more details here).
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February 26 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
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
Many hedge funds fell victim to the volatile market forces in the fourth quarter, but billionaire Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital's equity portfolio managed to return 5.4...
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Daniel Benton's Andor Capital Management is a tech-focused fund that has recently disclosed its equity portfolio via a 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission...
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February 21 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The last 12 months have been marked by a series of events that adversely affected the performance of hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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February 19 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
The way equity markets have behaved since the start of 2016 has led many investors and market experts to believe that we are approaching the end of a multi-year bull run.
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February 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Although they opened lower this morning, the U.S stock market's main indices have risen back up to yesterday's closing price and are hovering around that level, with oil prices...
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February 9 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech
Investors are nervous today after the jobs report brought forward mixed employment data.
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February 5 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech
With the earnings season in progress, the U.S stock market is still losing ground, despite several attempts to recover.
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February 4 - Market Movers, News, Tech
U.S stocks are trading lower today, after the latest tumble in oil prices has put further pressure on the markets.
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February 2 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech
U.S. investors are still using the oil market as a guide for their trading activities, so it's little wonder that the main indices plunged together with oil prices today.
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February 2 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Tech
