David Einhorn grew up in Milwaukee and graduated from Cornell. He learned the hedge fund business from Gary Siegler and Peter Collery, who managed the SC Fundamental Value Fund. David Einhorn is one of the most successful long/short equity hedge fund managers of the past decade. David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital returned 15.9% in 2010, and 21.5% since its inception in 1996. Greenlight Capital’s market beta is around 0.5, meaning if they didn’t have any stock picking skill, they would have returned about half of the market’s return.
David Einhorn grew up in Milwaukee and graduated from Cornell. He learned the hedge fund business from Gary Siegler and Peter Collery, who managed the SC Fundamental Value Fund. David Einhorn is one of the most successful long/short equity hedge fund managers of the past decade. David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital returned 15.9% in 2010, and 21.5% since its inception in 1996. Greenlight Capital’s market beta is around 0.5, meaning if they didn’t have any stock picking skill, they would have returned about half of the market’s return.
“We try to find things that are misunderstood,” says Einhorn. “And then if we think something is misunderstood then we figure out if it’s misvalued. And if we figure out that it’s misunderstood and misvalued, then we tend to invest”.
| Fund Name: | Greenlight Capital |
| Manager | David Einhorn |
| Portfolio Value | $5,167,829,000 |
| Change This QTR | +1.05% |
| No. | Security | Ticker | Shares | Value (x$1000) | Activity | % Port |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.) | PFE | 24,954,098 | $506,817 | +8% |
9.8% | |
| 2.) | AAPL | 837,500 | $291,827 |  |
5.64% | |
| 3.) | CIT | 6,662,889 | $283,507 | -9% |
5.48% | |
| 4.) | CFN | 10,024,724 | $282,696 | -25% |
5.47% | |
| 5.) | S | 55,900,000 | $259,376 | |
5.01% | |
| 6.) | ESV | 4,406,604 | $254,878 | -51% |
4.93% | |
| 7.) | TRV | 4,198,211 | $249,710 | +97% |
4.83% | |
| 8.) | MSFT | 9,069,042 | $229,991 | +18% |
4.45% | |
| 9.) | Market Vectors E T F Trust |
3,546,971 | $213,032 | |
4.12% | |
| 10.) | NCR | 10,252,994 | $193,166 | -11% |
3.73% |
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