Founded in 2000 by Jeffrey Ubben, Peter Kamin and George Hamel Jr., ValueAct Capital is today one of the largest activist hedge funds in the world. The...
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February 17 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Although crude prices have soared since last February on the back of OPEC intervention and improving fundamentals, the rising prices haven’t managed...
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January 4 - Earnings Report, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire investors didn’t get to where they are (or get their bank accounts to boast that many 0’s) by being ordinary. Many made shrewd...
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November 28 - ETF Trading, Gold, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Investors use various trading strategies and follow different investment philosophies, so they tend to look at a wide range of aspects when deciding whether...
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November 17 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Hedge Fund Manager Odey Says U.K. Stocks Could Plummet 80% (Bloomberg) Crispin Odey, whose main hedge fund has lost about 43 percent this year, says U...
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November 1 - Hedge Funds - Comments
A spate of earnings reports have done little to move the indexes much in either direction today, as broader index volatility remains low. In this article...
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November 1 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Crude futures are in the red to start off the week as OPEC continues to squabble on who is going to cut what, making the prospect of a deal seem less...
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October 31 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Despite the spate of major earnings releases this week, the markets have been rather calm — the S&P 500 fell by just 0.6% during the week, while...
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October 29 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Although third-quarter U.S. GDP growth clocked in at 2.9% versus analyst estimates of 2.5%, the broader markets are little changed as volatility on the...
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October 28 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
STOCKS NEWS Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT): reported Q3 EPS of $0.85 which beat estimates by $0.08. Revenues of $9.16 billion were down 16.4% which missed...
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October 25 - News, Stock Analysis - Comments
While the markets ended the week on a quiet note, as both the S&P and Nasdaq were relatively unchanged, Bonanza Creek Energy Inc (NYSE:BCEI), Quality...
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October 15 - Market Movers, News - Comments
After being very volatile for the first nine months of the year, the price action in crude has suddenly become quiet as more participants buy into OPEC...
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October 8 - Commodities, News - Comments
After a nightmare two years during which oil prices fell from $100 to as low as $26 per barrel, there is finally some optimism among people in the energy...
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August 20 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Jeffrey Ubben founded ValueAct Capital in 2000. The California-based hedge fund has recently filed its 13F filing, in which it disclosed its equity portfolio...
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August 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Through extensive research, we determined that imitating some of the picks of hedge funds and other institutional investors can help generate market-beating...
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July 19 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Despite S&P and Dow Jones trading near all time highs, it’s been an uneventful week for the energy markets. Although WTI prices are slightly...
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July 16 - Commodities, News - Comments
Vranos’s Ellington Hires Stohr to Bolster Distressed-Debt Team (Bloomberg) Michael Vranos’s hedge fund Ellington Management Group has hired former...
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July 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Crude futures were volatile this week. After rallying above the key $50 per barrel mark and igniting some short covering, Wednesday’s EIA report...
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June 11 - Commodities, Market Movers, News - Comments
It’s the first day of the week, and traders are anticipating the upcoming FOMC meeting in the middle of this month. Following Friday’s disappointing...
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June 6 - Market Movers, News, Tech - Comments
In an interview with CNBC in March, ValueAct Capital‘s founder and chief investment officer, Jeffrey Ubben, revealed that his fund was reducing...
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May 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech - 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
On the third trading day of the week, crude futures have now rallied above $45 per barrel while the Dow Jones and S&P 500 futures are modestly lower...
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April 27 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Hedge fund clients pulled out $15 billion from the hedge fund industry in the first quarter of 2016, marking the largest outflow since the second quarter...
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April 25 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Harvard Management Company is an asset management firm operated by Harvard University to manage its over $37 billion endowment. Since 2015, the firm has...
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April 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
At a time when the three big indexes, the S&P, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones, are roughly flat, investors are selling Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE), Vanguard...
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December 21 - Commodities, Market Movers, News - Comments
Jeff Ubben of ValueAct Capital is a pretty successful investor. Not only has he built up his fund to have an equity portfolio of $17.20 billion since...
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December 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Earlier this week, several fundamental events took place in the energy sector, which is most likely to affect not just some individual stocks, but the...
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December 20 - Commodities, News - Comments
With many investors expecting the Fed to raise rates this week and the high yield bond market beginning to show signs of rolling over, several new and...
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December 14 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Pentwater Capital Management is an Evanston, Illinois-based, multi-billion dollar equity hedge fund founded by Matthew Halbower in 2007. Prior to founding...
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December 10 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
ValueAct Capital, led by Jeffrey Ubben, recently submitted its latest 13F to the Securities and Exchange Commission for the reporting period of September...
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November 21 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With around $25 billion in assets under management, Pzena Investment Management, led by Richard S. Pzena, disclosed an equity portfolio worth $15.71 billion...
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November 10 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Four companies have reported their latest quarterly earnings since yesterday’s market close, and all four managed to top estimates, sending their shares...
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October 21 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Shares of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), and Campus Crest Communities Inc (NYSE:CCG) are trending this morning...
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October 19 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Shares of Williams Companies Inc (NYSE:WMB), Energy Transfer Equity LP (NYSE:ETE), Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI), and Halliburton Company (NYSE...
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September 28 - Commodities, Market Movers, News - Comments
In its most recent 13F filing with the SEC for the reporting period quarter ending June 30, Jeffrey Ubben‘s ValueAct capital revealed an equity...
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August 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Is Halliburton a good stock to buy now? A recent report from Wells Fargo’s Judson Bailey discussed the struggle of the offshore drilling industry and...
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June 28 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As oil prices are looking to rebound, the energy sector has been able to garner the support of more money managers. According to Morningstar data, the...
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May 25 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It appears Alexander Roepers’ Atlantic Investment Management has had a change of heart regarding Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE:OIS). After increasing...
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April 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Activist Jeffrey Ubben‘s 14 picks in companies with a market cap of $1 billion or more (his entire portfolio) delivered weighted average returns...
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April 12 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
We recently updated Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital’s performance for the first quarter of 2015 with the firm achieving returns of 8.4% in its...
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Farallon Capital, a hedge fund founded by Thomas Steyer, has recently disclosed the initiation of a passive stake in Sky Solar Holdings Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ...
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March 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jeff Ubben‘s ValueAct Capital reported a new stake in the $25 billion oilfield services...
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is also amongst the funds obliged to disclose its long equity positions by the end of each quarter, although...
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November 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Based in Australia, Platinum Asset Management was founded by Kerr Neilson in 1994, having worked for Bankers Trust Australia (now BT Australia) prior...
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
In its latest 13F filing, Citadel Investment Group, led by Ken Griffin, revealed its equity portfolio, worth more than $70 billion, for the second quarter...
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August 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As previously reported, Billionaire Steven Cohen earlier this year shut down his fund SAC Capital Advisors and opened Point72 Asset Management, a fund...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Fox Business News’s Lori Rothman reported about Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) in her earnings alert on Thursday. The mention has been made on...
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July 18 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
The Market has had its fair share of challenges, but there are stocks according to the ‘Fast Money’ Crew on CNBC that remained solid in the first...
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July 11 - News, Tech - Comments
Edgar Wachenheim‘s Greenhaven Associates recently revealed its 13F portfolio allocation for the first quarter of 2014. With approximately 75.00...
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May 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In a latest 13F filing, Stanley Druckenmiller’s fund Duquesne Capital, revealed its holdings for the fourth quarter of 2013. The value of its equity...
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February 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments