Whitney Tilson is a famous value investing fund manager and is the founder of Kase Capital Management. Tilson has been in the investing business for 18......
(read more)October 27 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Security and Exchange Commission has charged two men with insider trading in Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) shares, according to a CNBC report by Scott Wapner......
(read more)September 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF)’s up by about 7% during the day and trades at around $43.1, after a long slide that started at the end of July. The company......
(read more)September 23 - News - Comments
Carl Icahn and Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) have strengthened their ties, with the company having agreed to offer Icahn more board seats. According to an......
(read more)March 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Stan Druckenmiller is a billionaire, and was the long-time manager of Duquesne Capital. Now, he oversees a family office, but his investing strategy is......
(read more)February 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
On September 9th, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who manages Icahn Capital (find Icahn’s favorite stocks), conceded his battle over Dell......
(read more)September 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
A popular misconception among investors is that the rounds of 13F filings released by hedge funds and other notable investors several weeks after the......
(read more)August 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
So far this year, the 30 most widely shorted stocks from the beginning of 2013- as measured by the number of shares short as a percentage of the float......
(read more)August 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Recently, Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) climbed above $60, meaning that billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is finally underwater from its short......
(read more)August 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire George Soros is best known for its profitable macro investments, particularly in currency instruments, but his hedge fund Soros Fund Management......
(read more)August 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
By tracking quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors, we have been able to use the included information to develop investment......
(read more)May 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The most popular small cap stocks (which we define as having market capitalizations between $1 billion and $5 billion) among hedge funds generate an average......
(read more)April 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tiger Consumer Management is a “Tiger Cub” hedge fund, so named because founder Patrick McCormack had previously worked at legendary investor Julian......
(read more)April 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
They are not usually exciting and they don’t normally make splashy headlines; but, on average, stocks that pay dividends outperform the market average......
(read more)April 7 - News - Comments
Our work developing investment strategies has found that on average the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return......
(read more)April 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One way to quantitatively measure a stock’s upside potential is with the PEG ratio, which incorporates both the P/E multiple and analyst consensus estimates......
(read more)March 31 - Hedge Funds - Comments
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors; the most recent round of filings disclosed many long equity positions as of the end......
(read more)March 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
While 13F filings provide the most complete picture of what stocks hedge funds own, they are somewhat out of date by the time they are released. This......
(read more)March 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
On the whole, hedge funds have underperformed the market in recent years. This is no secret. To most members of the financial media, their coverage of......
(read more)February 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge funds generate a substantial portion of their alpha from the small-cap space. On the whole, public research about the little guys tends to be less......
(read more)January 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
13D and 13G filings from hedge funds reveal large positions taken by hedge funds (or significant changes in these positions) fairly recently after the......
(read more)January 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has had a wild ride over the past three weeks. On the afternoon of December 19th, news surfaced that Bill Ackman, manager of......
(read more)January 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In December, billionaire Bill Ackman of Pershing Square (check out Ackman’s stock picks) gave an exhaustive short presentation on Herbalife Ltd. (......
(read more)January 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has fallen close to 10% in value since December 19th, when reports first surfaced that Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing Square......
(read more)January 8 - News - Comments
Citadel outpaces rivals with 26% gain in 2012 (ChicagoBusiness) The two biggest hedge funds led by Citadel LLC CEO Ken Griffin posted returns of about......
(read more)January 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Bill Ackman runs a niche equity portfolio, owning only around 10 stocks at a time. Ackman is a long-term activist and value investor, and......
(read more)January 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
New Hedge Fund Firms Say They Can Profit in Tough Markets (InstitutionalInvestor) MACRO HEDGE FUND MANAGERS KNOW THE MARKETS can be a cruel mistress.......
(read more)January 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Joel Greenblatt is well known in the value investing community, having penned a number of books on investing, including You Can Be A Stock Market Genius......
(read more)December 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
With all of the uncertainty surrounding Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), thanks in part to billionaire Bill Ackman’s barrage of attacks, we decided to......
(read more)December 27 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) has fallen by more than 35% over the past week on news that billionaire investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital had......
(read more)December 27 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Hardly hedging (NYPost) John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made a fortune during the downturn but more recently blamed a bad 2012 performance on......
(read more)December 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) have fallen over 38% since last Wednesday, amid reports that Bill Ackman, manager of the hedge fund Pershing Square......
(read more)December 26 - News - Comments
Greenbrier rejects Icahn offer again, says it is ‘unacceptable’ (Reuters) U.S. railcar maker Greenbrier Companies Inc (NYSE:GBX) has yet again......
(read more)December 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Yesterday, we discussed the jaw-dropping fall of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), which had lost over 12% due to allegations from Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing......
(read more)December 20 - News - Comments
By now, you’ve probably heard what hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, manager of Pershing Square Capital, reportedly thinks of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE......
(read more)December 19 - News - Comments
Secret Footage of Romney Was Filmed at Estate of Sex Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager (GAWKER) You know that really damaging hidden camera footage of......
(read more)September 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bacon To Give Back $2 Billion Amid ‘Constrained’ Markets (Bloomberg) Louis Moore Bacon plans to give back $2 billion, or 25 percent of his main hedge......
(read more)August 1 - Hedge Funds - Comments
There were 17 large-cap companies that posted their quarterly earnings reports prior to Monday’s market open, and the results were received as generally......
(read more)July 30 - News - Comments
This is an email we got from the Direct Selling Association: As the association representing more than 200 leading firms that manufacture and distribute......
(read more)May 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies had nearly 3 million shares of Herbalife (HLF) at the end of December. The fund was quite bullish about the......
(read more)May 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Capital Growth Management was founded by Ken Heebner in 1990 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It provides services to charitable organizations,......
(read more)October 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
