Rising net demand for allocating to hedge funds has hit a three-year high, as the $3 trillion hedge fund industry scored high marks among investors for......
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September 5 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
2017 was a great year for defense stocks, some of them rising as much as 30% by the end of December. The rally was fueled mainly by the heated exchange......
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Tepper’s Long On European Equities, Short On US Bonds Approach Is Correct: Barings (CNBC) Amid the political uncertainty in Europe and expectations......
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March 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In a new 13G filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Anand Desai‘s Darsana Capital Partners reported owning 7 million Class A Shares......
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September 27 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
2015 wasn’t a good year for most hedge funds, but it was particularly excruciating for hedge funds founded by the protégés of industry legend......
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June 13 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
While mega-caps and large-caps tend to offer predictability and stability, two attributes that are very valuable in a market as volatile as the one we......
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March 14 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Gotham Asset Management is a New York-based iconic value-focused long/short equity hedge fund founded by renowned value investor Joel Greenblatt in 1985......
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December 7 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It is widely known that the trading activity of corporate insiders may provide useful insights about a company’s future prospects. Similarly, various......
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September 28 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
According to a recently-amended 13D filing with the SEC, Gregory A. Boland’s West Face Capital disclosed an ownership stake of 4.17 million shares in......
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August 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
David E. Shaw gained popularity through his exploitation of inefficiencies in the financial market with the help of computational algorithms and a strong......
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May 25 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Jonathan Auerbach’s Hound Partners had a very strong first quarter based on the 19 long positions in companies with a market cap of $1 billion or greater......
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April 9 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Eric Mindich’s Eton Park Capital enjoyed a strong first quarter of 2015 according to our returns metric. That metric estimates a fund’s quarterly......
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April 9 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Michael Blitzer’s Kingstown Capital Management disclosed a large new activist position last week in Home Loan Servicing Solutions Ltd (NASDAQ:HLSS),......
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Another one of the funds we track here at Insider Monkey has made a big move into Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ:TKMR), as it was revealed......
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January 26 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
According to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Eton Park Capital, run by Eric Mindich, boosted Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc......
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November 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Companies that build big, complex projects often do so on long-term contracts. If they fail to anticipate costs or control expenses in the course of those......
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September 16 - News - Comments
Known as an activist investor, David Einhorn is actually a methodical value investor with a long-term track record of success. He started his hedge fund......
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September 12 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Now, according to many traders, hedge funds are assumed to be bloated, old financial vehicles of a forgotten age. Although there are over 8,000 hedge......
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September 10 - News - Comments
To the average investor, there are plenty of gauges market participants can use to analyze stocks. Two of the most innovative are hedge fund and insider......
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September 3 - News - Comments
What’s a smart FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) investor to do? To the average investor, there are dozens of gauges investors can use to watch......
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August 30 - News - Comments
At the moment, there are tons of indicators shareholders can use to analyze publicly traded companies. A couple of the best are hedge fund and insider......
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August 27 - News - Comments
Is Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:SPR) a buy? If you were to ask many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are viewed as useless, old investment......
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August 25 - News - Comments
Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI) investors: here’s some bullish news for you. In the eyes of many traders, hedge funds are perceived as delayed, outdated......
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August 25 - News - Comments
When a company is acquired, the acquirer pays a large premium to where the acquired company’s stock price had previously been trading. Because of this......
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August 13 - News - Comments
ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE:OKE) – Shares in ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE:OKE) are ripping higher on Thursday, rallying as much as 22% to a near three-month high of $52......
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July 25 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, with......
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July 25 - News - Comments
In the first quarter of 2013, David Einhorn, the founder and president of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE), delivered a 6.1% gain. In previous......
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May 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they’ve bought and sold, via “13F” filings. Their latest moves can shine a......
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May 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long......
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April 8 - News - Comments
Earnings and earning-related news is the number one catalyst for stock movement. A strong quarter can dictate the direction of a stock for the following......
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February 13 - News - Comments
We’ve come a long way since the Wright Brothers developed the first successful aircraft, some 110 years in fact. Over that time the flight industry......
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February 11 - News - Comments