Hedge Fund News: Steven Cohen, John Burbank, BarclayHedge
SAC Re bolsters team with four appointments (Artemis) SAC Re the Bermuda based Class 4 reinsurer backed by Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund...
Posts Tagged ‘Jacob Gottlieb Visium Asset Management’
Is Teva Pharmaceutical Industries A Good Stock to Buy?
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (NYSE:TEVA)’s business has been doing well so far in 2012. In the first half of the year, revenue was up 22% versus...
Orbimed Still Selling Pacira
Between April and June of this year, Orbimed Advisors sold 18% of its shares of Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:PCRX), finishing the second quarter...
A Hedge Fund’s Bets in Generic Pharmaceuticals
Visium Asset Management was founded by Jacob Gottlieb in 2005. Though this hedge fund initially specialized in health care stocks, the firm now manages...
Hedge Fund News: Pfizer, General Motors, Paul Tudor Jones
Pfizer-J&J Drop Alzheimer’s Drug Studies After Failure (Bloomberg) Pfizer (PFE) Inc., Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Elan Corp. ended most plans...
Hedge Fund Performance January 2012
HSBC published the Hedge Weekly for the week of Jan 30 to Feb 3, revealing a list of hedge funds’ performances in January 2012. Some of the hedge funds...
Hedge Fund Returns In 2011
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...
Peter Kolchinsky’s RA Capital Management Raised Stake In Endocyte $ECYT
Peter Kolchinsky’s RA Capital Management reported 7.32% passive stake in Endocyte Inc. (ECYT). According to a regulatory filing, now RA Capital Management...
D. E. Shaw Loses Big After InterMune Drops 18%
InterMune Inc. (ITMN) drops 18.64% at 2:05PM EST today. The stock is trading at $14.88 with unusually high volume on Thursday, down $3.41 from the close...
Hedge Fund Performance In November
Hedge fund performance in November 2011 was more disappointing than any time since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Hedge funds have failed to deliver...
Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group Initiated New Passive Stake In Targacept Inc. (TRGT)
Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group disclosed on December 9th that the firm has initiated a 5.65 million shares brand new position in Targacept Inc. (TRGT),...
Hedge Funds Make Big After $PLL Rises 8%
Pall Corporation (PLL) rose nearly 8% in trading on Friday after the company reported increases in revenue and adjusted earnings, which beat analyst expectations...
Insider Trading: Samuel Isaly’s Orbimed Advisors is Selling $ANTH
Samuel Isaly’s Orbimed Advisors filed for its recent insider sales in Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc (ANTH) on November 18th. According to the filing,...
Hedge Funds Make a Bundle on Inhibitex $INHX
Shares of Inhibitex (INHX) more than doubled Friday morning. The increase came “after the company released promising new data on its hepatitis C...
Pivovarov Launches Altera Fund, Visium Hires Stockton, MF Global
Altera Capital to Launch Maiden Hedge Fund by Year End (FINAlternatives) A former Old Lane Partners manager has returned home to launch a high-concentrated...
Hedge Funds Gain Big After Amlin $AMLN Reports Higher Than Expected
Amlin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN) rose 11.13% on Thursday morning after it reported a GAAP loss of 9 cents per share, which was narrower than the 15 cents...
Top Hedge Funds in September
Hedge funds fell 3.2% in September according to Bloomberg, making September 2011 the worst month for hedge funds in over a year. Bloomberg cited the European...
Visium Asset Management: Stock Picks and Performance
Visium Asset Management is founded by Jacob Gottlieb in 2005. It began as a spin off from Balyasny Asset Management and focused predominantly on equities...
Hedge Fund Performance August 2011
Hedge fund performance in August 2011 was disappointing, according to Financial Times. “Hedge fund industry has failed to live up to its name”...
25 Best Hedge Funds of Q2 2011
Insider Monkey tracks 300+ hedge funds and several other prominent investors. We believe investors can beat the index funds by imitating best hedge funds...
Hedge Fund Winners in FDA Panel’s Regeneron Decision $REGN
Regeneron (REGN) shares were halted earlier today before an FDA panel’s decision about Regeneron’s new eye medicine. Here is what Reuters...
Samuel Isaly and OrbiMed Advisors Reduced Anthera Pharmaceuticals $ANTH
Samuel Isaly’s OrbiMed Advisors manages around $5 Billion in healthcare related equities and venture capital. Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences...
