Hedge Fund News: WellPoint, Bill Ackman, Mitt Romney
WellPoint CEO Angela Braly quits, bowing to investor pressure (LATimes) Bowing to intense investor pressure, the chairwoman and chief executive of health...
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Hedge Fund News: Boaz Weinstein, Russell Wasendorf, Twitter
HF Manager Buys NYC Pad (HedgeFund) New York City’s Fifth Avenue has a new resident from the hedge fund world. Bloomberg reported that Boaz Weinstein...
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. Andreas...
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. The stock...
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. Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman joins Nelson Peltz...
Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Increases Universal Health Services Stake $UHS
Ole Andreas Halvorsen is one of the most successful Tiger cubs. Norwegian Halvorsen launched Viking Global at the end of 1999 with former Tiger employees...
10 Hedge Fund Managers Who Think Whitney Tilson is Wrong On Salesforce.com $CRM
Whitney Tilson gave a presentation last week arguing that Salesforce.com (CRM) is a momentum stock priced for perfection. Here is how he values CRM: “...
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. We...
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. Here is our article about how...
Magnetar Capital, James Dinan and David Einhorn, GSAM Departures
Magnetar Buys Metallurgical and Steam Coal Company (Hedgeco) $7.5 billion hedge fund investor Magnetar Capital announced that Lightfoot Capital Partners...
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Is The Biggest Hedge Fund
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Is The Biggest Hedge Fund (Reuters) According to a report from AR magazine, Bridgewater increased its assets by $15.3 billion...
Hedge Fund Performance Numbers: What to Expect
2010 was a very volatile year and it wasn’t a good year for many hedge funds. We previously reported that Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is having...
