Westar Energy Inc (WR)

Investors in one of the 50 best utility dividend stocks to invest in can breathe quite easily, knowing that hedge funds helmed by the best investors in the world also have vast holdings in these companies...

Shares of Westar Energy Inc (NYSE:WR) are off $4.22 per share, or 7.7%, after the State Corporation Commission of Kansas rejected Great Plains Energy's purchase of Westar Energy. Fellow electric utility...

Every week, I go through the list of dividend increases as part of my monitoring process. I usually focus on those companies that have raised dividends for at least a decade.

We started seeing tectonic shifts in the market during the third quarter.

Our data culled from the 659 funds in our database which filed 13Fs for the June quarter, and whose portfolios contained at least 5 long positions in companies valued at $1 billion, revealed some startling...

With the S&P 500 near all time highs again, traders are in an optimistic mood despite the prospect of a Federal Reserve rate hike during the next FOMC meeting in June.

It was a rough third quarter for many hedge funds, which were naturally unable to overcome the big dip in the broad market, as the S&P 500 fell by about 7% during the quarter.

To many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are perceived as overrated, outdated financial tools of a period lost to current times.

In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are many methods market participants can use to watch the equity markets. A duo of the most underrated are hedge fund and insider trading activity.