Hedge Fund - ValueAct Capital

At the moment, there are tons of gauges investors can use to track Mr. Market. A duo of the most innovative are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.

If you were to ask many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are viewed as useless, outdated investment tools of a forgotten age.

Editor's Note: Related tickers: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Jeffrey Ubben is the founder of one of the hedge funds we track, ValueAct Capital Management.

This just in, Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct Capital has purchased a $2 billion stake in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), according to a CNBC report, which is detailed on the following page.

While most hedge funds were most likely unable to keep with the S&P 500 in the first quarter, when the benchmark surged 10 percent, at least two funds — Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct Partners and the Egerton...

Jeffrey Ubben is an activist investor, but a patient one; rather than agitate for immediate change and use the media to increase pressure on management, his preferred strategy is to take a large stake...

Corporate America is stuck in a rut, and it is holding back economic growth.

At the 2012 Invest for Kids conference, Jeff Ubben of ValueAct Capital gave a vote of confidence to the real estate services company CBRE Group Inc (NYSE:CBG).