Meet the Mets: The Most Interesting Team in Baseball (The Wall Street Journal) Sandy Alderson stepped in as general manager of the New York Mets at one...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Million-dollar listings: Couple sells Palm Beach condo for $6.5M; last year, their $105M-house buy set a Florida record (PalmBeachDailyNews.com) The couple...
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May 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
It’s Monday and oil futures are relatively stable despite the news that the U.S. is beginning to impose sanctions on Iran again. Among the stocks...
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November 5 - News - Comments
Trian Fund Management, which was founded in 2005 by billionaire Nelson Peltz, is today a multi-billion dollar investment management firm and of the 140...
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March 10 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management is one of the best-known activist hedge funds in the world, managing about $13.8 billion in assets. In its latest...
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November 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Each week, I go through the list of dividend increases in order to monitor performance of existing holdings, and uncover hidden dividend gems. I then...
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November 22 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Founded in 2005 by Nelson Peltz, Peter May and Ed Garden, Trian Partners manages more than $13 billion worth of assets and is one of the most famous...
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August 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The US stock market is trading higher on Monday on the back of rallying oil prices and speculations regarding a stimulus program by the Chinese government...
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August 15 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Billionaire investing legend Donald Yacktman is increasingly pulling money out of U.S. equities. According to the latest 13F filing submitted by Mr....
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August 3 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The markets have started the week in a record-setting mood, following stronger than expected employment data out of the U.S and increased political stability...
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July 12 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Crude futures are down by 1.7% today and the major index futures are in the red after today’s jobless claims report showed 264,000 claims, on the...
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June 9 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Since being established in November 2005, the activist fund Trian Partners has worked with the management teams of a number of under-performing companies...
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May 19 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It’s the start of another trading week today and investors are buzzing over the news that Australian Craig Wright might be the founder of Bitcoin...
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May 2 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Some analysts and investors believe that value investing will achieve a comeback in the foreseeable future, as growth stocks have outperformed value stocks...
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April 15 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
2016 has thus far been another disappointing year for stock market investors. Since the start of the year, most stocks have been beaten down aggressively...
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February 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
It’s the first trading day of February and the stock market is in the red after the worst January since 2009. However, there are stocks that are trending...
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February 1 - Market Movers, News - Comments
SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) is a holding in our Conservative Retirees dividend portfolio. The company is a dividend aristocrat that has paid dividends...
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January 6 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Most individual investors already know the value of monitoring activist investors, who generally make value-enhancing proposals or push for changes at...
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December 11 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Yacktman Asset Management, founded by Donald Yacktman in 1992, is one of the most well-known, value-focused hedge funds on the Street. Prior to founding...
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November 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, News - Comments
Trian Fund Management L.P., co-founded by Nelson Peltz, recently disclosed its equity holdings as of September 30 with the SEC. While Peltz maintains...
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November 16 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, News - Comments
Trian Fund Management L.P., co-founded by well-known activist investor Nelson Peltz in 2005, is considered as one of the fastest growing hedge funds in...
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November 14 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) is the largest food distributor in the world. The company distributes food products to restaurants and stores throughout...
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October 28 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
It appears that the proposed merger of Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) and Office Depot Inc (NASDAQ:ODP), which at one point was widely expected to succeed...
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September 22 - Hedge Funds, Market Movers, News - Comments
Less than a week after disclosing a stake, Nelson Peltz‘s Trian Partners issued an amended 13D regarding SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), in which...
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August 21 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Notorious activist investor Nelson Peltz‘s Trian Partners has initiated a 7% stake in the food distributor SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), as revealed...
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August 14 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
A preliminary injunction blocking SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY)‘s planned acquisition of US Foods Inc. was issued by a US court on Tuesday. The decision...
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June 24 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Deepak Gulati‘s Switzerland-based fund, Argentiere Capital recently disclosed its equity holdings as of the end of the first quarter in a filing...
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April 28 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Kyle Bass’ Heyman Advisors had a very poor quarter that was characterized by its selloff of General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), a company in which Bass...
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April 13 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), the largest food distributor in America with a 17.5% share of the market had its Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2013 earnings call...
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August 13 - News - Comments
SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) shareholders have witnessed an increase in support from the world’s most elite money managers of late. To the average...
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June 24 - News - Comments
In mid-February, we shared our research report on AMERCO (NASDAQ:UHAL), the deeply undervalued and underfollowed holding company that owns U-Haul, the...
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June 4 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Related Tickers: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE:FE), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO),...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related Tickers: Baidu.com, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Yelp Inc (NYSE:YELP), Google Inc (NASDAQ...
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April 18 - News - Comments
Donald Yacktman, the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Yacktman Asset Management, is managing around $17 billion in total assets. Over the...
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April 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In previous articles, I wrote about Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) and Mosaic Co (NYSE:MOS). Those two stocks belong to the Thomson Reuters...
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March 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
