Paulson’s Bright Spot Could Fade as Gold Reaches 5-Month Low
John Paulson’s year is about to get worse. Paulson, a superstar hedge fund manager, has endured some of the biggest losses of his career this year......(read more)
Hedge Fund Analysis
Investors Disappointed at Lackluster Hedge Fund Performance
The affair between hedge funds and their investors is over. Hedge funds are an asset class that used to be famous for its ability to make money in all......(read more)
Hedge Fund Performance In November
Hedge fund performance in November 2011 was more disappointing than any time since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Hedge funds have failed to deliver......(read more)
New Hedge Fund Research Suggests Hedge Fund Alpha Closer to Zero
Hedge fund managers used to be the upper echelons of the investing world. They were the men (and women) that were most quoted, most talked about and most......(read more)
Hedge Funds Have Alpha and Beta
Hedge funds have alpha and beta. There are many models to evaluate the performance of hedge funds. In this article, we analyzed the performance of the......(read more)
Vice Fund (VICEX) Performance Analysis: Does Being Naughty Pay Off?
Vice Fund (VICEX) is a mutual fund that invests in the tobacco, gambling, alcohol, and defense industries. It’s a very clever marketing idea to invest......(read more)
Best Mutual Funds: Tilson Dividend Fund (TILDX)
Insider Monkey has shown that Whitney Tilson’s alpha is about 5 percentage points per year. Tilson’s Focus Fund (TILFX) has a tiny alpha of around......(read more)
Mutual Fund Performance: Tilson Focus Fund (TILFX)
Whitney Tilson’s T2 Partners achieved an annual alpha of around 5%. In addition to a hedge fund, Whitney Tilson also has a couple of mutual funds. Insider......(read more)
Whitney Tilson and T2 Partners’ Returns and Alpha
Whitney Tilson is getting a lot of coverage because of his Netflix (NFLX) short. Since September 1st the stock market took off but Whitney Tilson’s......(read more)
Best Mutual Funds: Parnassus (PARNX) Returns and Alpha
Bloomberg News reported mutual fund Parnassus managed to beat 95% of its peers in 2010 by purchasing stocks in the face of growing public pessimism about......(read more)
Guggenheim Insider Sentiment ETF (NFO) and Sabrient’s Index
Insider trading is Insider Monkey’s specialty. Academic studies have shown that stocks intensively purchased by insiders outperform index funds by more......(read more)
Does Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula Investing Have Any Alpha?
Joel Greenblatt is the founder of Gotham Capital, a hedge fund with extremely good returns. We at Insider Monkey like Joel Greenblatt because he’......(read more)
Best Mutual Funds: Dimensional Fund Advisors US Small Cap Value (DFSVX)
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) was founded by two University of Chicago business school alums, David Booth and Rex Sinquefield, back in 1981. The company......(read more)
Best Mutual Funds: LSV Value Equity Fund Returns and Alpha
LSV Asset Management is a quantitative value equity manager founded by three academicians: Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Schleifer, and Robert Vishny. These......(read more)
Don’t Waste Your Money On Undeserved Beta
After we were contacted by an uninformed reader regarding our last post, Insider Monkey realized there are investors out there who don’t understand......(read more)
Warren Buffett’s Alpha 1977-2009: Chart of the Day
Warren Buffett. We could jot down the nearly endless list of descriptives that would just begin to protray his followers’ feelings towards him.......(read more)
