Looking at the entire picture, 13Ds indicate the goals of activist hedge fund managers. These mega-investors, are high-flyers in the investment world, and look to tweak an existing company.
To put it simply, it’s very beneficial for average investors to pay attention to Prem Watsa’s recent play into American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE:ASI).
Though the media, analysts and the blogosphere at larger reports on a multitude of investing indicators, there exists one that flies under the radar so to speak: consensus hedge fund sentiment.
Empirical studies have found that retail investors who follow specific hedge fund activity can beat Mr. Market by as much as 18 percentage points per year. (See the details here).
Focusing in on American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE:ASI), we can see that aside from Farifax, another hedge fund was long American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE:ASI) at the end of last quarter. More precisely, Jim Roumell’s Roumell Asset Management in American Safety Insurance Holdings. Roumell Asset Management holds a $10.2 million position in American Safety Insurance, which contains 409,589 shares.
Furthermore, we must tell you some other stocks in Fairfax Financial Holdings’s 13F portfolio aside from American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE:ASI).
As follows they include Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), and are mentioned on Page 2:
