Passport Capital’s John Burbank is famous for having predicted the subprime crisis. Passport’s flagship fund returned 219% in 2007. Burbank bet against......
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February 18 - Uncategorized - Comments
Tom Steyer’s Farallon Capital Management is the world’s 14th largest hedge fund, managing around $21 Billion. They had a rough 2008 and had......
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February 14 - Uncategorized - Comments
Jim Simons’ Medallion Fund is a phenomenon, by far the best hedge fund with 34% annual alpha. The problem is its strategy has a size constraint......
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February 13 - Uncategorized - Comments
Dan Loeb’s Third Point returned 41.5% in 2010. Third Point’s flagship fund gained 38.2% in 2009 after losing 32.8% in 2008. The returns......
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February 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Thomas Steyer’s Farallon Capital Management reduced its Beacon Roofing Supply Inc (BECN) by about 300,000 shares, according to a recently filed......
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January 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Barry Rosenstein’s $1.9 Billion value oriented and event driven hedge fund Jana Partners returned 8.4% in 2010 . Recently one of the partners of the......
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January 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund managers rarely come up with “original” investment ideas. They have a limited number of employees and there are so many stocks......
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January 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
We love Dan Loeb. With an annual alpha of more than 7%, he’s certainly made his mark in the hedge fund circles. And like hedge fund circles, there......
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December 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
