Hedge Fund - Altimeter Capital Management

The Sohn Investment Conference, one of the biggest hedge fund gatherings of the year, took place yesterday in New York, with Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, Keith Meister, and Larry Robbins among the hedge...

Brad Gerstner's Altimeter Capital disclosed a 5.1% stake in Tableau Software Inc (NYSE:DATA). Gerstner's hedge fund held 2.6 million shares of Tableau Software Inc (DATA) at the end of December.

After all, activist hedge funds get most of their earnings from investing in companies and pushing them to provide more shareholder value.

There were 659 hedge funds in our system whose 13F portfolios consisted of at least five long positions in billion-dollar companies on June 30.

Brad Gerstner’s Altimeter Capital Management boasted an equity portfolio worth $1.34 billion at the end of the second quarter, according to the fund's last 13F filing, which also showed that the fund...

The activist hedge fund industry oversees approximately $120 billion in assets under management, which enables activists to acquire stakes even in the largest U.S. public companies.

As revealed in a recent 13D filing with the US SEC,  Brad Gerstner's Altimeter Capital Management entered into a settlement agreement with the United Continental Holdings Inc.

In a pair of filings with the SEC today as well as in a separate press release which was also sent to the company's board, Brad Gerstner's Altimeter Capital and Paul Reeder and Edward Shapiro's PAR Capital...

Numerous financial news websites and stock market participants call activist investors “vultures”, who aim to extract short-term benefits at the expense of companies’ long-term performance.