Hedge Fund News: WellPoint, Bill Ackman, Mitt Romney
Bowing to intense investor pressure, the chairwoman and chief executive of health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. abruptly resigned and the company named an interim CEO.
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Hedge Fund News: Boaz Weinstein, Russell Wasendorf, Twitter
New York City’s Fifth Avenue has a new resident from the hedge fund world.
Is Xilinx (XLNX) a Good Buy?
Xilinx Inc (XLNX) designs, develops and markets programmable platforms, like integrated circuits, in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Japan.
10 Hedge Funds Hurt By the Decline in Apple $AAPL
Apple is currently trading at $315.56 near its lowest level in 2011. Apple gained 8% during the first quarter, but declined 9.46% since then.
Bill Ackman and These Hedge Fund Managers Made A Bundle Yesterday, $JCP
Yesterday JC Penney (JCP) went up $5.26. News of J. C. Penney hiring Apple's head of retail operations has made the stock jump 17.5% in one day.
Bill Ackman’s New Favorite Unsexy Stock Pick
Hedge fund managers became extremely bullish about dollar stores since the beginning of this year.
Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Increases Universal Health Services Stake $UHS
Ole Andreas Halvorsen is one of the most successful Tiger cubs.
10 Hedge Fund Managers Who Think Whitney Tilson is Wrong On Salesforce.com $CRM
“Call me old school, but I think GAAP earnings matter and I think all compensation is an expense, whether it’s in the form of cash or stock options. But the company ...
Here are the Biggest Losers in Microsoft’s Skype Acquisition
Microsoft is down 0.8% on a day NASDAQ is up 0.9%. It is safe to say that Skype deal seems to cost 1.5 percentage points to Microsoft shareholders.
D.E. Shaw’s Top 30 Long-Term Stock Picks
D.E. Shaw's top 30 long-term stock picks managed to beat the market by 2.8 percentage points since the end of 2010.
Magnetar Capital, James Dinan and David Einhorn, GSAM Departures
$7.5 billion hedge fund investor Magnetar Capital announced that Lightfoot Capital Partners, LP has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its interests in International ...
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Is The Biggest Hedge Fund
According to a report from AR magazine, Bridgewater increased its assets by $15.3 billion last year, thanks largely to a 44.8 percent gain in its Pure Alpha Fund II.
Hedge Fund Performance Numbers: What to Expect
2010 was a very volatile year and it wasn’t a good year for many hedge funds.
