While the first-half of 2016 was dismal for the hedge fund industry overall, it was particularly disastrous for Larry Chen and Terry Zhang's Asia-focused long/short equity hedge...
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September 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Food and restaurant stocks are mostly deemed risky as they largely depend on various factors like food scares, weather and recessions, but analysts think that rising consumer ...
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September 6 - Hedge Funds, News
Crude is in the headlines today after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he supports a production freeze with OPEC.
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September 2 - Market Movers, News, Tech
Emerging Sovereign Group was founded in 2002 by Kevin Kenny, Mete Tuncel and Jason Kirschner, who previously worked together at Morgan Stanley, with seed money from Tiger Management...
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September 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Although all three major indexes retracted on Tuesday, five stocks, Yum! Brands, Inc.
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August 31 - Market Movers, News
Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital recently filed its 13F for the June quarter, which showed a notable shift in the composition of the fund's portfolio.
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August 25 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Tairen Capital is a Shanghai-based equity long/short hedge fund co-founded by Larry Chen and Terry Zhang in 2007.
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July 30 - Hedge Funds, News
Third Point LLC, an investment management firm founded in 1995 by billionaire Daniel S. Loeb, primarily focuses on event-driven, value-oriented investing. Mr.
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July 28 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The markets moved up sharply on Thursday after the Bank of England surprisingly left interest rates unchanged.
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July 15 - Market Movers, News
It looks like Thursday will be another good day for the markets, as all three index futures and crude are in the green.
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July 14 - Market Movers, News
Although fast-food and quick-service stocks probably won't wow you with their performance in any given year, they are pretty dependable over the long run.
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May 29 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Dan Loeb founded New York-based Third Point LLC, an asset management firm with $17 billion assets under management, in 1995.
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May 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The latest round of 13F filings was wrapped up (for the most part) on Monday, as thousands of hedge funds reported the content of their equity portfolios with the SEC, as of...
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May 18 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Robert Citrone, a so-called Tiger Cub due to his previous position at the Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, founded Discovery Capital Management LLC in 1999.
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May 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Mixed earnings reports and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s press conference have cast a pall over investor sentiment in the markets today, with the major U.S...
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April 21 - Market Movers, News
It's a rather flat day on Wall Street, as all three major indexes are hovering around level ground for the day.
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April 20 - Market Movers, News
The introduction of the breakfast menu has cranked up the competition in the fast food business.
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March 23 - 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
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
Stillwater Investment Management, L.P. is a California-based long/short equity hedge fund founded by Adam Weiss in 2014. Prior to founding the fund, Mr.
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February 14 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
With NASDAQ futures up by 0.7% and crude futures bouncing back from the $30 per barrel level, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), QUALCOMM, Inc.
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January 13 - Market Movers, News
Volatility continues to rear its ugly head today as all three major indexes opened sharply lower. Among the stocks buzzing this morning are Yahoo! Inc.
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January 6 - Market Movers, News, Tech
With the price of oil near decade lows, consumers have more spending power than ever before.
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, News
After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from the more than 700 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track ...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire activist investor Dan Loeb of Third Point saw his hedge fund post losses of 8.9% for the September quarter in comparison to the S&P 500's slide of 6.4% during the ...
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November 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire activist Dan Loeb mostly invests in companies that trade below their intrinsic value and try to push for changes in order to maximize the shareholder value.
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November 15 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
The stock market opened in the red on Tuesday amid positive housing starts data, which indicated a 6.5% annual growth to 1.21 million, which is a sign of the strengthening of...
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October 20 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News
Dan Loeb is one of the most revered activist investors on Wall Street, and has proven to be a successful money “generator” over his 20 years of experience as a hedge fund ...
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October 18 - Hedge Funds, News
On Thursday, Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) announced that Keith Meister of Corvex Management LP was appointed to its Board of Directors, and also updated its outlook for 2015.
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October 16 - Hedge Funds, News
There is no question about it. Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)'s earnings report came up short.
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October 7 - Earnings Report, News
The Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) industry, or the so-called fast food industry, has seen immense growth over the past few decades (i.e.
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October 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) is one of the largest restaurant companies in the world, with more than 41,000 restaurants around the globe.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
The U.S restaurant industry has been performing quite strongly over the last few years.
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September 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Dan Loeb, the founder of Third Point, is a pioneer activist investor, whose flagship fund performed impressively in 2010, returning 41.7%.
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August 26 - Hedge Funds, News
With the data from the latest round of 13F filings now gathered and processed, we’ve identified five stocks that received a large influx of cash in the second quarter from the...
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August 19 - Hedge Funds, News
Benjamin A Smith’s Laurion Capital Management has filed its 13F with the SEC for the second quarter of 2015, in which it disclosed an equity portfolio of $10.85 billion, which...
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August 14 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Matthew Hulsizer’s Peak6 Capital Management has recently filed its 13F with the SEC for the second quarter of 2015.
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August 13 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
Stephen J. Errico founded Locust Wood Capital Advisers, a New York-based long/short equity hedge fund, in 2002. Prior to founding Locust Wood, Mr.
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July 30 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) reported an adjusted earnings per share of $0.69 after-hours today for its second quarter, which ended June 30.
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July 14 - Earnings Report, Hedge Funds, News
For our latest stock showdown, we turn our attention to the fast-food industry and pit two titans of burgers and chickens on the go against each other, McDonald's Corporation...
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June 29 - Hedge Funds, News
Benjamin A. Smith's $5.85 billion fund, Laurion Capital Management has pushed Apple Inc.
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June 19 - Hedge Funds, News
Activist investing seems to be in vogue nowadays.
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June 2 - Hedge Funds, News
The restaurant industry is up by 12.48% year-to-date. In comparison SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has merely returned 2.73% during the same period.
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May 26 - Hedge Funds, News
Dan Loeb's Third Point has just issued its Investor Letter for the first quarter.
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May 1 - Hedge Funds, News
Paul Cantor, Joseph Weiss, and Will Wurm's Beech Hill Partners has filed its latest 13F with the SEC, giving us a chance to see the fund’s holdings as of the end of March.
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May 1 - Hedge Funds, News
While investing in restaurant businesses is certainly an opportunity to tap into sizable returns, it is not a straight forward choice for a retail investor to pick the right business...
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February 25 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaires George Soros and Steven Cohen are two of the most notorious names on Wall Street, which is why everyone interested in investing should follow their activity closely...
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February 20 - Hedge Funds, News
Water Island Capital is a merger-arbitrage fund that was founded in 2000 by John Orrico.
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February 11 - Hedge Funds, News
The question of grabbing a meal from Yum! Brands, Inc.
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July 23 - News
Two years from the last Chinese food safety scandal that hit Yum! Brands, Inc.
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July 22 - News
