13F filings, which disclose many of the long equity positions in U.S.
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February 22 - Hedge Funds
At Insider Monkey, we’ve recently teamed up with MarketWatch to provide investors with the Billionaire Hedge Fund Index, which returned 24.3% last year, beating the S&P 500 ...
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February 21 - Hedge Funds
At Insider Monkey, we track more than 450 hedge funds, from Warren Buffett to David Einhorn.
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February 15 - Hedge Funds
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors both to help us develop investment strategies- the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds, which can...
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February 14 - Hedge Funds
Within several weeks after the close of a quarter, hedge funds and other major investors are required to issue 13F filings which are then made public.
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February 1 - Hedge Funds
Price-to-earnings multiples shouldn’t be used as the sole criterion for making an investment decision- in particular, they give little to no weight to future growth in favor...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds
One way to estimate the upside potential of a stock is to look for a low PEG ratio, a financial metric that adjusts the traditional P/E multiple according to the consensus earnings...
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January 16 - Hedge Funds
Fortress Investment Group started out as a private equity firm in 1998, founded by Wesley Edens (a former partner at BlackRock Financial), Robert Kauffman (a managing director...
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January 14 - Hedge Funds
One way to estimate a stock’s upside potential- while, to some degree, restricting oneself to fairly reasonable earnings projections- is to use the PEG ratio, which is derived...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds
Things do not appear to be getting any easier for Steven Cohen and SAC Capital. In a recent Fox Business scoop, Charlie Gasparino painted a bleak picture for the impending February...
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January 9 - Hedge Funds
Curtis Macnguyen founded Ivory Capital in 1998 after five years at Siegler, Collery & Co. and after having worked in investment banking before that.
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January 9 - Hedge Funds
Value investors know that low price-to-earnings multiples are a good place to start looking for good values, but this metric gives no weight to a stock’s growth potential.
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January 8 - Hedge Funds
Michael Karsch, manager of Karsch Capital Management, has quite the pedigree.
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January 4 - Hedge Funds
Former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer is now one of the most widely followed market commentators, with a popular show on CNBC.
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January 3 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Steve Cohen and his hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors have been in the news recently as the government investigates related hedge funds for suspicious trading activity...
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December 31 - Hedge Funds
John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made a fortune during the downturn but more recently blamed a bad 2012 performance on Europe, didn’t let that stop him giving friends...
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December 27 - Hedge Funds
13F filings allow investors to see some of the long equity positions owned by hedge funds and other major investors several weeks after the end of the quarter.
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December 26 - Hedge Funds
CNBC host Jim Cramer has a sizable following thanks to his years as a successful hedge fund manager and to his personal style.
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December 26 - Hedge Funds
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is Blue Ridge Capital’s top stock pick.
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December 26 - Hedge Funds
Julian Robertson, formerly of Tiger Management, is a legend in the hedge fund community for his fund’s excellent performance (which made him a billionaire) and for Robertson...
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December 21 - Hedge Funds
The PEG ratio allows investors to consider a stock’s P/E ratio- generally used as the basic value metric- with how fast the company’s earnings are expected to grow in the ...
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December 20 - Hedge Funds
Value investors like to use price-to-earnings multiples as a crude shortcut to determine how a stock’s valuation compares to the company’s earnings.
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December 19 - Hedge Funds
Last month, Appaloosa Management filed its 13F with the SEC for the third quarter of 2012.
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December 18 - Hedge Funds
It's no secret that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the most popular stocks in the hedge fund industry.
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December 18 - Hedge Funds
In a recent interview on CNBC, David Tepper, who runs hedge fund Appaloosa Management, came off as very bullish on the U.S. stock market.
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December 17 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Leon Cooperman headed Goldman Sachs Asset Management before founding Omega Advisors in 1991.
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December 17 - Hedge Funds
Founded in 1999 by Randall and Herbert Abramson, Trapeze Asset Management is a medium-sized hedge fund based in Toronto, Ontario.
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December 16 - Hedge Funds
SAC Capital Advisors may (or may not) be in legal trouble, but billionaire Steve Cohen’s hedge fund is still a major market player whose moves get investors’ attention.
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December 13 - Hedge Funds
Whitney Tilson launched T2 Partners in 1999 and has returned 177% on a cumulative basis since then, compared to the S&P 500's 36%.
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December 12 - Hedge Funds
Jim Cramer, former hedge fund manager and current CNBC host, manages a charitable trust.
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December 11 - Hedge Funds
According to a filing with the SEC, a member of the Board of Directors at Loews Corporation (NYSE:L) purchased 5,000 shares of the company’s stock on November 29th at an average...
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November 30 - Insider Trading
Billionaire Dan Loeb is best known for his activist investing, but his fund Third Point simply manages too much capital to be purely focused on activist crusades like Loeb’s...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
It’s been some time since Julian Robertson was managing clients’ money at Tiger Management, but he continues to manage money and comment on the markets.
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November 29 - Hedge Funds
Last week, we discussed the federal government's allegations of illegal insider trading against Mathew Martoma, a former hedge fund manager employed by CR Intrinsic Investors (...
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November 27 - Hedge Funds
We think that one of the best ways to narrow down the wealth of opinions that Jim Cramer provides on CNBC is to focus on the stocks owned by his charitable trust.
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November 27 - Hedge Funds
Investors have generally been looking down on the financial sector for some time, but our review of recent 13F filings by hedge funds and other notable investors generally shows...
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November 23 - Hedge Funds
Appaloosa Management filed its 13F earlier this month, disclosing many of its long equity positions as of the end of September.
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
George Soros’s Soros Fund Management filed its 13F with the SEC earlier this month (find out what stocks Soros reported owning and read our analysis of his activity during the...
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
Louis Bacon manages about $15 billion at Moore Capital Management, and his net worth has been estimated at $1.5 billion.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
Bruce Berkowitz founded Fairholme in 1997, and is a former senior portfolio manager for Lehman Brothers and managing director for Smith Barney.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
Bruce Kovner founded Caxton Associates in 1983 and the fund’s remarkable performance since then- it’s been particularly consistent in limiting periods of negative return- ...
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
James Dinan is one of the hedge fund industry's best success stories, rising to be one of its highest paid earners after losing it all on one black Monday morning in 1987.
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November 17 - Hedge Funds
With a net worth of $8.8 billion, Steven Cohen is one of the wealthiest hedge fund managers in the world, and his hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors manages over $14 billion in assets...
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November 17 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire D.E. Shaw and his firm D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. filed their 13F with the SEC in mid-November, revealing Shaw's renewed interest in tech and financial stocks. D.E.
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
Our database of 13F filings allows us to track the long equity positions of hedge funds and other notable investors when these filings occur about seven weeks after the end of...
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
Appaloosa Management is a value hedge fund managed by billionaire David Tepper (whose name might sound familiar to any recent attendees of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of...
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
Appaloosa Management is a value hedge fund managed by billionaire David Tepper (whose name might sound familiar to any recent attendees of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of...
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
George Soros is best known for the fortune he made shorting the British pound in 1992, but he currently invests a considerable amount of money in equities and so is required to...
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
Leon Cooperman, former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and current manager of Omega Advisors, has had his net worth estimated at about $2 billion.
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November 14 - Hedge Funds
In an era of “Too Big To Fail”, Credit Default Swaps and “Synthetic” financial products, a financial services company with a “good housekeeping” seal on its balance...
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October 23 - Stock Analysis