Editor’s note: This article is part of a series ValueWalk is doing on tail risk hedge funds. The series is based on several weeks of research and discussions...
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June 4 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
HSBC Hedge Weekly, in its issue Nr. 48, has published a list of the best hedge fund returns. Out of the issue, we have selected the list with top 20...
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December 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Hedge fund returns: HSBC Hedge Weekly (issue No. 36) has issued a list of the best hedge fund returns in 2013. We’ve shared the top 20 from that...
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September 23 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Here at Insider Monkey, we’re big believers of imitating the smart money. Over at Institutional Investor’s Alpha, Stephen Taub penned an article...
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, We Disagree - Comments
Second quarter wasn’t very kind to most hedge fund managers‘ long positions. S&P 500 index ETF (SPY) lost 2.84% during the quarter. Most...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In 2011 Vikas Agarwal, Naveen D. Daniel, and Narayan Y. Naik published an academic paper at The Review of Financial Studies titled “Do Hedge Funds Manage...
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June 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds - Comments
There are some numbers hedge fund investors need to know. Hedge fund fees is one of them. Financial Times did an analysis of hedge fund fees and returns...
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April 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
When ex-Goldman Sachs (GS) Group traders Pierre-Henri Flamand and Morgan Sze left the company, they were able raise “more than $4.5 billion for...
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April 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis - Comments
We have been compiling hedge fund returns in 2011 for the past couple of weeks. We gathered returns for more than 60 hedge funds we are tracking. Here...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
HSBC published the Hedge Weekly #53, revealing a list of hedge funds’ return in 2011. The report didn’t have some of the hedge funds Insider Monkey...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The affair between hedge funds and their investors is over. Hedge funds are an asset class that used to be famous for its ability to make money in all...
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December 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis - Comments
Fir Tree Nets $628M For Real Estate Fund (FINAlternatives) The $7 billion New York-based firm announced that its Real Estate Opportunity Fund II garnered...
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November 10 - Hedge Funds, Uncategorized - Comments
Bruce Berkowitz has had an amazing track record. For years, his Fairholme Fund has produced consistently high returns. Of course, with the sweet comes...
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November 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
John Paulson has had a rough year, in fact the worst of his career reports Bloomberg, but if October is any indication, he could be on the rebound. The...
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November 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
David Baran’s hedge fund, Symphony Financial has been outperforming its peers. His fund “rose by more than 14.8% while most hedge funds scrambled...
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October 26 - Hedge Funds, Uncategorized - Comments
Donald Yacktman is one of the most successful fund managers in the industry reports Businessweek.
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October 25 - Hedge Funds, Uncategorized - Comments
Odey European‘s Crispin Odey is having a bad year. His London-based hedge fund has lost 22% YTD after falling 8.3% in September reports BusinessInsider...
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October 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
According to Reuters, “Investors pulled out around five times more cash from hedge funds in the month to October 1 than in the prior period, during...
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October 13 - News - Comments
Hedge funds aren’t performing very well this year because of their hedges. We calculated the returns for hedge funds’ 13F holdings in S&...
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July 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
We have been telling people that small investors can imitate hedge funds’ top positions and perform better than index funds. During the second quarter...
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July 6 - News - Comments
Carl Icahn sent a letter to his investors announcing that he is returning all outside capital because he doesn’t want to be responsible to limited...
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March 9 - The Smart Set - Comments
Hedge funds gain in February(Reuters) The average hedge fund returned 1.39 percent last month, according to the Hennessee Group while the Standard &...
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March 9 - News - Comments
Here is how Oaktree’s Howard Marks explains the 2010 performance of the Oaktree Evergreen Funds: Our oldest evergreen fund, the Emerging Markets...
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March 8 - News - Comments
One of the ways of following David Einhorn’s performance is through the disclosures made by Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE). Greenlight Re posted on...
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March 7 - News - Comments
Pershing Square’s flagship fund returned 3.1% in February, bringing its return to 0.5% through February (FinAlternatives). FinAlternatives also...
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March 4 - News - Comments
Fortress Macro Fund returned 2.8% in December and 10.7% for 2010. Fortress Investment Group (FIG) trades on the NYSE.
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January 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The world’s largest currency hedge fund, John Taylor’s FX Concepts, predicted that the euro will depreciate to $1 in 2011. John Taylor suggests...
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January 6 - Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
John Paulson’s (Paulson & Co.) 2010 returns made the headlines recently. On December 17th, Financial Times reported that John Paulson‘...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM) provided preliminary estimates for its December and 2010 returns in various funds: December 2010 OZ Master Fund, Ltd...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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...
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January 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Daniel Loeb is famous for his entertaining letters to CEOs that show his displeasure with their management style or other actions. In 2005, Daniel Loeb...
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December 28 - News - Comments
Scoggin Capital’s Craig Effron and Curtis Schenker have been in business since 1988, returning in excess of 15 percent annually after fees. Scoggin...
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December 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square posted a gross 15% return in November when all but one stock in his fund returned less than 15%. The only stock other...
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December 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Dealbreaker today reported that Pershing Square returned 15% in November. Insider Monkey likes Bill Ackman even though he swam naked in Turkey. He’...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments