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What Does Activist Investor Dan Loeb Want With Hollywood? (Hint: Could It Be Yahoo?) (TheWrap)
Hedge funds shop at Supervalu, sour on Apple (Reuters)
Regulatory filings revealed that Barry Rosenstein’s JANA Partners, a hedge fund with $5.5 billion in assets, picked up some 14 million shares of SUPERVALU INC. (NYSE:SVU) in the quarter ended March 31. For Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, a $9.5 billion firm, however, it was a different story, as the hedge fund dumped all of its roughly 10 million shares. Leon Cooperman’s $9 billion Omega Advisors also jumped into Supervalu, opening a 6.87 million-share position, a filing revealed. The filings also showed just how much Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s star dimmed in the first quarter. Chase Coleman’s $12 billion Tiger Global Management sold 790,000 Apple shares in the quarter, while Cliff Asness’s $80 billion AQR Capital Management sold about 150,000 shares.
Kickboxing Oil Trader Pursues Knockout at New Hedge Fund (Bloomberg)
Andurand Capital, which started doing business on Feb. 1, provides its managing partner with an opportunity to salvage his reputation as one of London’s most talented oil traders after his previous — and now extinct — hedge-fund firm, BlueGold Capital Management LLP, lost 34 percent in 2011. As for kickboxing, Andurand has poured $30 million into the sport’s biggest promoter, Glory Sports International Pte, in an attempt to turn it into a moneymaker. Pierre Andurand, who’s chairman of Glory Sports, sees it as more than a business proposition.
The ‘Smart Money’ Hedge Funds Don’t Look So Smart Anymore (Forbes)
Not long ago it seemed that the “smart money” was invested in hedge funds which generated outsized returns for investors. When broad markets fell by 40% in the crash of 2008 and 2009, hedgies like John Paulson, who bet against mortgage-backed securities, made fortunes. In 2007, Paulson made $3.7 billion. In 2010, he made $5 billion. Now that the financial crisis has abated, such returns for Paulson and his fellow superstar hedgies appear to be a thing of the past. And, with the recent rash of insider trading prosecutions by the Feds against hedge fund managers, investors must seriously question the value of putting their money with these folks.
Apple shares fall as hedge funds flee (USA TODAY)
In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of current holdings, David Tepper, founder and chief investment officer at major hedge fund Appaloosa Management, indicated Wednesday he is less enamored with the iconic maker of iPads, iPhones and Mac computers.
Credit: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Warren Buffett Gets Into Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (CBI), Adds More Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) (Insider Monkey)
In the fourth quarter of 2012, Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) overtook long-timer Warren Buffett favorite The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) to become Berkshire Hathaway’s largest holding by market value; Berkshire kept buying early in this year, and owned about 460 million shares at the end of March. At a price-to-book ratio of 1.4, Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) actually trades at…
