Warren Buffett Has a Problem With ‘Independent’ Directors (The New York Times) Buffett’s big idea for better M&A advice: Berkshire Hathaway...
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February 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Tiger Global raises stake in Flipkart; buys shares from Binny Bansal (Livemint.com) Bengaluru: Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has sold $14 million worth...
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September 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BlueMountain’s Flagship Fund is Losing Money so Far this Year Even as the Rest of the Industry Surges, and it’s Just the Latest Blow for the...
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May 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist Hedge Fund Elliott Takes Stake in Pernod (Reuters) PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has taken a stake in...
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December 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Investing legends like Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, and Jim Simons became billionaires through decades of delivering outsized returns for their clients...
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March 26 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
1. U.S. Stock Market: “Wall Street kept losses on Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates unchanged following its two...
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May 3 - Commodities, Gold, Market Movers, News, Tech - Comments
The secret to getting the most out the hedge fund industry for profits is to filter out the noise and focus on selected sides of the smart money’s portfolios...
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December 9 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Almost a month after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, the market’s solid perfromance has surprised even seasoned investors. Although the S...
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December 7 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Steve Cohen is the Chairman and CEO of Point72 Asset Management, a family office that has an equity portfolio worth $14.22 billion as of the...
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November 21 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With the bulk of the meaningful earnings reports by major companies in the rear-view mirror, volatility is low on Wall Street. The VIX is trading around...
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November 11 - News - Comments
All three major indexes are moderately lower today as traders digest the latest earnings releases by leading American corporations. Among the companies...
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July 28 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It is commonly known that population growth is one of the key drivers of both current and future demand for food. According to a recent study conducted...
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September 28 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Relational Investors has reported, in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a further reduction in its holding of PMC-Sierra Inc...
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July 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
According to a recent filing with the SEC, Ralph V. Whitworth‘s Relational Investors has shaved some 2.74 million shares off its holding in Magnum...
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June 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As the first quarter of 2015 has finished we are able to provide you with relevant analysis reflecting the institutional investors’ equity portfolios...
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Ralph V. Whitworth‘s Relational Investors continues its streak of trimming its activist stake in SPX Corporation (NYSE:SPW), as the fund cut...
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March 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Ralph V. Whitworth‘s Relational Investors recently decreased its stake in SPX Corporation (NYSE:SPW) to a position of 6.27 million shares. The...
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March 26 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Carlson Capital, L.P, managed by Clint Carlson, has increased its stake in Exterran Holdings, Inc (NYSE:EXH). The latest filing with the SEC shows that...
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January 29 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Although most companies appear largely focused on dividends and buybacks these days, some still see the merits of a growth-inducing acquisition. In a...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
LONDON — The FTSE 100 (FTSEINDICES:^FTSE) didn’t move much last week, putting on a modest 37 points to end the week at 6,584. The receding...
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September 15 - News - Comments
The summer of 2013 has been notably cooler than the scorcher that 2012 brought, but August saw the heat turned up on the U.S., having a marked impact...
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September 13 - Commodities, News - Comments
If you happen to be a huge market nerd who keeps close track of SEC filings, you probably know Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) recently released its...
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August 20 - News - Comments
Americans love to snack. The researchers at Mintel say about half of all consumers snack every day, and because we’re constantly on the go, almost...
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August 8 - News - Comments
As the taper is set to start in September, there is bound to be some volatility in the markets, so in this two part series I have put together a taper...
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August 6 - News - Comments
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) will release its quarterly report on Tuesday, and investors have gotten increasingly enthusiastic about the...
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August 2 - News - Comments
The world needs its farm goods, and the market is well aware of this. The problem with something that everyone knows they need is that the price can become...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Having already reviewed a number of grocery-store stocks, I decided to look further into the market for home-cooked foods, specifically companies that...
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July 18 - News - Comments
Bunge Ltd (NYSE:BG) is undoubtedly one of the strongest players in the agri-food processing industry. Over the years, Bunge Ltd (NYSE:BG) has repeatedly...
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July 8 - News - Comments
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM), one of the world’s largest agricultural trading houses has decided to sell its cocoa and chocolate business...
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July 5 - News - Comments
When looking at the farm industry, analysts are usually very pessimistic. It is said the industry carries an inherently large risk. This may be true,...
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July 2 - News - Comments
Fueled by growing demand from Asia and the recent spate of natural gas discoveries around the world, the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade is gaining...
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July 1 - News - Comments
Alternative oils play Solazyme Inc (NASDAQ:SZYM) may have just gotten riskier; apparently, many investors think so. Unlike many stocks today, Solazyme...
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June 25 - News - Comments
Throw all of your revenue projections out the window for now. Renewable oils manufacturer Solazyme Inc (NASDAQ:SZYM) started out the week with some bad...
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June 25 - News - Comments
LONDON — BG Group plc (LON:BG)‘s profits will soar as more oil and gas production comes onstream. Earnings per share is forecast to rise...
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June 21 - News - Comments
Solazyme Inc (NASDAQ:SZYM) continues to trek ahead toward its ambitious goals of scaling one of the world’s first industrial biotechnology platforms...
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June 20 - News - Comments
LONDON — I’m always searching for shares that can help ordinary investors like you make money from the stock market. However, many people...
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June 10 - News - Comments
LONDON — To me, capital growth and dividend income are equally important. Together, they provide the total return from any share investment, and...
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June 5 - News - Comments
Several years ago Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) and Synthetic Genomics (SGI) attempted perhaps the largest and most ambitious photosynthetic algae...
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June 5 - News - Comments
Is Bunge Ltd (NYSE:BG) a buy, sell, or hold? Investors who are in the know are becoming less confident. The number of bullish hedge fund positions stayed...
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May 31 - News - Comments
At Insider Monkey, we track some of the hedge fund world’s most elite money managers, and one that often flies under the radar, yet is in our top 500...
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May 31 - Hedge Funds - Comments
LONDON — BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) and BG Group plc (ADR) (OTCBB:BRGYY) are the second and third-largest oil and gas firms in the FTSE 100. Both companies...
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May 28 - News - Comments
LONDON — To me, capital growth and dividend income are equally important. Together, they provide the total return from any share investment and,...
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May 24 - News - Comments
The soft commodity market is in crisis. Spiraling prices and huge oversupply in the market mean that many producers are not able to turn in a profit,...
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May 22 - News - Comments
Harrowing details continue to emerge of the devastating tornado that took so many lives on Monday in Moore, Okla. As just one more in a series of increasingly...
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May 22 - News - Comments
The agribusiness commodity industry is on the growth track again after the severe drought that affected the U.S. and part of South America last year....
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May 13 - News - Comments
Synthetic biology company and renewable oils manufacturer Solazyme Inc (NASDAQ:SZYM) reported earnings after the market closed on Wednesday. Investors...
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May 9 - News - Comments
Investors have always been interested in stocks that pay dividends, but lately, low interest rates on bonds and other fixed-income investments have made...
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April 7 - News - Comments
LONDON — It only took a few days of marginally unseasonable weather and some technical problems with the interconnector that pipes gas from the...
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April 4 - News - Comments
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...
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March 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
LONDON — It’s always useful to see which shares the experts are buying, especially in times as uncertain as these. Neil Woodford is as expert...
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March 5 - News - Comments
