Articles by Eric Winter

For some investors, dividends act as a small bonus one receives every quarter for being a loyal shareholder, while others use a company’s distributions as a strategy and investment...

Real estate investment trusts are no strangers to paying high dividend yields, as their incorporation and tax structures entitle them to deduct dividends paid to owners, significantly...

Noam Gottesman took the knowledge he gleaned from the halls of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs and co-founded his own fund, GLG Partners, in 1995.

Now that first quarter earnings season has died down, analysts get the opportunity to get a closer look at many hedge funds’ 13F filings, which disclose institutional managers...

Watching the moves of activist hedge fund managers can give onlookers up-to-date information on how an investment firm is committing its capital, and it pays to keep a close eye...

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Small and mid-cap stocks do not get as much coverage from bankers and third-party analysts, often leaving them less efficiently priced versus larger stocks.

Roberto Mignone of Bridger Management recently released its 13F filing with the SEC for the final quarter of 2012, giving the public insight into the secretive hedge fund manager...

Bill Miller of Legg Mason Capital Management must comply with the same SEC regulations that all 400+ of the other hedge funds we track comply with as well, including the dissemination...

Markel Gayner Asset Management is the investment division subsidiary of Markel Corp. and is headed up by Tom Gayner, who also spends his time as the CIO of Markel.

The recent dissemination of the hedge fund industry’s 13F filings has allowed us to perform due diligence of over 400 funds’ holdings for the fourth quarter of last year.

With the most recent quarter over, we have been able to compile over four hundred 13F filings that were submitted to the SEC in the past few weeks.

Daniel Och started Och-Ziff Capital Management almost twenty years ago, and it has become one of the largest institutional managers of alternative assets since then.

Billion-dollar fund manager David Dreman has been investing institutional money on Wall Street since 1977 within his fund, Dreman Value Management.

Glenn Dubin co-founded Highbridge Capital Management with childhood friend Henry Swieca over twenty years ago, although Swieca has since left the firm.

During his tenure as CEO of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio was required by the SEC to disclose his fund’s positions every quarter.

David Harding of Winton Capital Management had humble beginnings as a hedge fund manager, starting with a paltry $1.6mm in assets in 1997, a far cry from the billions he currently...

With the close of each quarter comes an exciting season for investors – the release of hedge funds’ 13F filings, which outline their holdings and can give considerable insight...

The end of earnings season does not mean the end of excitement for us at Insider Monkey; we keep our ears to the ground for the round of 13F filings that usually post during and...

Fund analysts are routinely sifting through the less popular, smaller cap stocks that stay out of the public eye, hoping to find arbitrage in these less-efficiently priced securities...

Since founding Farallon Capital Management in 1986, Thomas Steyer and fellow investment manager Andrew J. M.

Small-cap and mid-cap stocks do not get as much coverage from bankers and third-party analysts, often leaving them less efficiently priced versus larger stocks.

Hedge funds have been known to seek alpha in small- and mid-cap stocks, as their pricing is often less efficient due to poor coverage by analysts and the media.

When assets under management start to stretch into the billions of dollars, scalping and short-term trading techniques become less scalable and profitable, and investors are often...

Now in its thirtieth year of existence, Ariel Investments is a dinosaur relative to some of the fly-by-night funds that have come and gone in the twenty-first century, many of...

Most hedge fund managers can only dream of breaking the “billion-dollar ceiling” of the big leagues, and they remain content with a critical mass of nine-figures or less.

Famed fund manager Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management may be best known for his outstanding returns generated for investors (in excess of 290% from 2000-2010).

David Dreman has been the head of Dreman Value Management since 1977, opening the doors to his own investment firm after working as director of research and senior investment ...

Established in 2008, Senator Investment Group was faced with extreme market conditions in its infancy, but that didn’t stop founders Douglas Silverman and Alexander Klabin from...

Wall Street analysts take a fine-tooth comb to hedge fund 13F filings, watching how managers scale in and out of positions or initiate new ones.

The meteoric rise of gold following the 2008 market collapse had many investors and hedge funds managers clamoring to beef up their holdings.

Initially seeded by legendary Tiger Management, Hound Partners got its start in 2004 with Jonathan Auerbach and Scott McLellan at its helm.

Eleven years after its inception, Corsair Capital Management has grown into a half-a-billion dollar hedge fund, best known for sniffing out value-driven investments in public ...

With the memory of Hurricane Sandy still fresh for many of those affected by last October’s tropical storm, insurance claims continue to roll in for those seeking reprieve for...

In an industry so closely tied with U.S. financial health and consumer spending habits, retail Real Estate Investment Trusts often feel the impacts of a slow U.S.