Here at Insider Monkey, we’re big believers of imitating the smart money. Over at Institutional Investor’s Alpha, Stephen Taub penned an article......
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, We Disagree - Comments
Second quarter wasn’t very kind to most hedge fund managers‘ long positions. S&P 500 index ETF (SPY) lost 2.84% during the quarter. Most......
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July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
There are some numbers hedge fund investors need to know. Hedge fund fees is one of them. Financial Times did an analysis of hedge fund fees and returns......
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April 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
When ex-Goldman Sachs (GS) Group traders Pierre-Henri Flamand and Morgan Sze left the company, they were able raise “more than $4.5 billion for......
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April 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis - Comments
We have been compiling hedge fund returns in 2011 for the past couple of weeks. We gathered returns for more than 60 hedge funds we are tracking. Here......
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January 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
HSBC published the Hedge Weekly #53, revealing a list of hedge funds’ return in 2011. The report didn’t have some of the hedge funds Insider Monkey......
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January 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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......
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December 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis - Comments
Fir Tree Nets $628M For Real Estate Fund (FINAlternatives) The $7 billion New York-based firm announced that its Real Estate Opportunity Fund II garnered......
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November 10 - Hedge Funds, Uncategorized - Comments
Bruce Berkowitz has had an amazing track record. For years, his Fairholme Fund has produced consistently high returns. Of course, with the sweet comes......
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November 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
John Paulson has had a rough year, in fact the worst of his career reports Bloomberg, but if October is any indication, he could be on the rebound. The......
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November 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Odey European‘s Crispin Odey is having a bad year. His London-based hedge fund has lost 22% YTD after falling 8.3% in September reports BusinessInsider......
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October 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
According to Reuters, “Investors pulled out around five times more cash from hedge funds in the month to October 1 than in the prior period, during......
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October 13 - Uncategorized - Comments
Hedge funds aren’t performing very well this year because of their hedges. We calculated the returns for hedge funds’ 13F holdings in S&......
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July 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
We have been telling people that small investors can imitate hedge funds’ top positions and perform better than index funds. During the second quarter......
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July 6 - Uncategorized - Comments
Carl Icahn sent a letter to his investors announcing that he is returning all outside capital because he doesn’t want to be responsible to limited......
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March 9 - The Smart Set - Comments
Hedge funds gain in February(Reuters) The average hedge fund returned 1.39 percent last month, according to the Hennessee Group while the Standard &......
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March 9 - Uncategorized - Comments
Here is how Oaktree’s Howard Marks explains the 2010 performance of the Oaktree Evergreen Funds: Our oldest evergreen fund, the Emerging Markets......
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March 8 - Uncategorized - Comments
One of the ways of following David Einhorn’s performance is through the disclosures made by Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE). Greenlight Re posted on......
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March 7 - Uncategorized - Comments
Pershing Square’s flagship fund returned 3.1% in February, bringing its return to 0.5% through February (FinAlternatives). FinAlternatives also......
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March 4 - Uncategorized - Comments
Fortress Macro Fund returned 2.8% in December and 10.7% for 2010. Fortress Investment Group (FIG) trades on the NYSE....
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January 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
John Paulson’s (Paulson & Co.) 2010 returns made the headlines recently. On December 17th, Financial Times reported that John Paulson‘......
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January 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
