Hedge Fund - Markel Gayner Asset Management

In the current round of 13F filings, hedge funds and other institutional investors are disclosing their equity portfolios as held at the end of the last year.

In today’s marketplace, there are many gauges shareholders can use to monitor publicly traded companies. A pair of the most under-the-radar are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.

At the moment, there are plenty of methods market participants can use to watch their holdings. A couple of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading activity.

Insurance company Markel invests much of its cash in the market under the management of Tom Gayner.

Markel Gayner Asset Management is the investment division subsidiary of Markel Corp. and is headed up by Tom Gayner, who also spends his time as the CIO of Markel.

Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) is an insurance company which invests its capital in the financial markets and therefore reports many of its long equity in positions in 13F filings as hedge funds and other...

Fund analysts are routinely sifting through the less popular, smaller cap stocks that stay out of the public eye, hoping to find arbitrage in these less-efficiently priced securities.

Our database of insider trading activity shows some recent purchases at insurance company Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL).