If you are an investor in one of the 76 best insurance dividend stocks to invest in, you’re regularly collecting dividend payments from your investment...
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July 12 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Can hedge funds see into the future with their stock investments? Results may vary, but hedge funds usually make the right stock picks when looking at...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Tepper’s Long On European Equities, Short On US Bonds Approach Is Correct: Barings (CNBC) Amid the political uncertainty in Europe and expectations...
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March 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
2016 was unarguably one of the worst years for John Paulson‘s Paulson & Co. since its inception in 1994. According to a recent report by hedge...
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February 21 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has been constantly in the news since Donald Trump launched his Presidential campaign. During the campaign, the...
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February 16 - Activism, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
If you are thinking of changing the name of your company, first read this article about name changes that did nothing to help these companies. Companies...
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January 10 - Lists, News - Comments
John Paulson founded New York-based investment management firm Paulson & Company in 1994. He shot into prominence when he earned almost $4 billion...
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December 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The year 2016 has not been good for hedge funds, which are currently being criticized over their general underperformance. This year has also been bad...
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December 15 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Financial stocks have had a volatile year, as the market has constantly speculated about the timing of an interest rate hike out of the Federal Reserve...
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November 29 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Andreas Halvorsen co-founded Viking Global together his Tiger Management colleagues David Ott and Brian Olson back in 1999. Viking follows a bottom...
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September 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Stock Analysis - Comments
Founded in 1991 by George Hall, New York-based activist hedge fund Clinton Group has been in the asset management business for 25 years now, but its reputation...
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September 21 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Founded by Richard Perry in 1988, Perry Capital was considered one of the best event-driven hedge funds on the Street for more than two decades. However...
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September 13 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Investors looking for yield have had a hard time generating solid returns, with the interest rates having been kept so low for such a long time. An obvious...
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September 13 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Argentiere Capital is an alternative investment management firm, which was founded by Deepak Gulati, a former global equity proprietary trading at JPMorgan...
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September 7 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With the U.S. economy strong, many financial stocks trading at cheap valuations, and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently stating that the case...
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With the latest quarterly 13F filings having been released, Insider Monkey has done the hard work of parsing through the position changes among the...
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August 28 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Although the U.S. stock markets had a very rough start to the year, they have managed not only to recuperate their losses, but to reach record highs in...
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August 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It’s a red day on Wall Street, as all three indexes are off by around half a percent due to profit taking. In this article, we’ll take a...
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August 16 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Glendon Capital Management L.P. was launched in April 2013 by Matthew Barrett, the former head of distressed debt and special situations investing at...
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August 5 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The U.S. dollar is stronger in early Wednesday activity as traders look forward to today’s release of the domestic employment report. With the...
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August 3 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
The Activist and Herbalife: Just Maybe Ackman’s Right (The New York Times) Bill Ackman, the activist investor, has been painted as a loser in his yearslong...
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August 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The UK’s electorate decision to leave the European Union in late-June came as a shock for many market participants and led to an immediate bloodbath...
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July 23 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Whether times are good or bad, insurance is needed most of the time. Yet stocks of insurance companies tend to fluctuate wildly over time. The main reason...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
There’s no doubt that activist investors have created a lot of value and helped millions of small investors to reap benefits through their activism...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Silver Point Capital L.P. is a Connecticut-based credit and distressed debt firm founded by two former Goldman Sachs partners, Edward A. Mule and Robert...
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June 11 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Bruce Berkowitz was recently in the spotlight for his strong criticism of how the U.S government has managed the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac situation,...
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May 28 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Leon G. Cooperman, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of multi-billion-dollar hedge fund Omega Advisors, has been an exceptional stock...
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May 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Feared activist Carl Icahn of Icahn Capital LP reduced his fund’s exposure to U.S. equities during the first quarter of 2016, jettisoning six positions...
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May 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Veteran investor Leon Cooperman‘s Omega Advisors has had two straight losing years with a 10% loss in 2015. From the looks of it, the first three...
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May 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Robert Rodriguez and Steven Romick’s First Pacific Advisors LLC recently published its first quarter commentary for investors of the FPA Crescent...
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May 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Markets slid on Tuesday as investors started selling risky assets following China’s weaker than expected manufacturing data. Meanwhile, companies continue...
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May 3 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Markets opened higher today, but started declining after the announcement of manufacturing data, according to which the Institute for Supply Management...
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May 2 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Famous activist investor Carl Icahn of Icahn Capital LP suffered some large losses last year due to his fund’s heavy bets on energy and commodities...
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April 5 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Leon G. Cooperman, the manager of New York City-based hedge fund Omega Advisors, is one of the most well-known value-oriented investors of the current...
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April 2 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The financial sector has exhibited lackluster performance of late, being down by about 6.23% over the last 52 weeks. This might ring alarm bells for...
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In the last few years, we have seen billionaire John Paulson transform from a money manager who bets big on activist and merger deals to an activist investor...
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February 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
When it comes to following activist investors to generate market-beating returns, billionaire Carl Icahn probably is one of the best choices, since he...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Following activist investors like Barry Rosenstein is one of the best ways to benefit from imitating the moves of smart money investors, mainly because...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Amid a broader market decline witnessed last year, many smart money investors registered substantial losses. Among them was billionaire Richard Perry...
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February 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Pzena Investment Management is a New York City-based hedge fund focused on classic value investing, founded by Richard S. Pzena in 1996. As of the end...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Individual investors can catch a glimpse of hedge funds’ equity positions by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings. The batch of 13Fs for the quarterly...
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Finance represents one of the best-performing sectors over the long-run, even though it is marked by periods of high volatility. Some of the largest companies...
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February 1 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
After a three-day weekend, U.S. stocks have started the week on a positive note, with major indices in green teritorry during the first hours of trading...
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January 19 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
The insurance industry did not make huge moves during 2015, having registered a return of around 1.70%. However, in 2016, the insurance segment in the...
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January 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With stocks managing to hold on to gains after a small correction, let’s take a look at some stocks that are still in the red at noon. American...
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December 10 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Heading into Q4, Russell Hawkins is betting big on financial and tech sectors, but has also made a notable play for an oil giant. In the latest round...
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December 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Looking for high-potential stocks in the seemingly overvalued equity markets? Follow activist investors’ targets and campaigns! A recent study has concluded...
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November 24 - Hedge Funds, Market Movers, News - Comments
Carl Icahn is one of the best activist investors, who over the years has managed to successfully increase the shareholder value of many companies. This...
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November 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Swift Run Capital Management, led by Tim Mullen, has recently filed its latest 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended September...
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November 13 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Carl Icahn is one of the most feared activist investors on Wall Street and Insider Monkey had the pleasure to hear him speak at the DealBook...
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November 4 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions, News - Comments