Hedge Fund - ValueAct Capital

Activist investor Jeffrey Ubben has turned his attention towards Alliance Data Systems Corp (NYSE:ADS), a company which his fund ValueAct Capital first took a position in during the first quarter.

On Fridays, John Hempton decamps to the solitude of his Sydney beach house, where the locals know nothing of his quirky stock research and focus on sniffing out fraud.

In an interview with CNBC in March, ValueAct Capital's founder and chief investment officer, Jeffrey Ubben, revealed that his fund was reducing its stake in a number of companies and that it was finding...

Hedge fund clients pulled out $15 billion from the hedge fund industry in the first quarter of 2016, marking the largest outflow since the second quarter of 2009.

Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles available only to high-net-worth individuals, so most retail investors cannot afford the luxury of investing in a hedge fund.

ValueAct Capital filed a brand new 13D regarding Willis Towers Watson Plc (WLTW) shares this week. This isn't a brand new activist position though.

Hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman and Larry Robbins shocked investors and other stock market watchers with their losses in 2015.

Hedge fund closures reached the highest rate in 2015 since the financial crisis, according to fresh statistics.

According to fresh data from Hedge Fund Research, the activist hedge fund industry lost 6.52% in the first two months of this year, versus the decline of 2% for the average hedge fund.