Hedge Fund Confounds Market Rout With 82% Gain (Bloomberg) Boaz Weinstein’s main hedge fund gained 82% in the first quarter, as many of his peers struggled...
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March 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The Vilas Fund recently published its Q1 2019 Investor Letter (download here), in which it shares its quarterly performance, reporting 34.3% gain in the...
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May 13 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Brazil Hedge Fund Bull Keeps Her Cool By Ignoring the Turmoil in Pension Reform (Bloomberg) All the tensions that have rattled Brazil traders over the...
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Exclusive: Tiger Global Pumps $6 mn More into Video Platform TVF in Down Round (VCCircle.com) The Viral Fever (TVF), an over-the-top (OTT) platform which...
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July 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKRX) (The Motley Fool) What happened: Shares of Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKRX), a specialty generic pharmaceutical company, are getting...
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February 27 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Sears CEO Under Pressure from Sears Canada Creditors as Retirees Seek Pension Funds (CNBC) Sears Canada creditors are calling out Eddie Lampert, the erstwhile...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Is the era of the most successful LBOs and private equity buyouts in history long gone, or is there any indication that in the future, we’ll see...
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June 29 - Activism, Hedge Funds, Lists, Mergers & Acquisitions, News - Comments
It’s Tuesday and the markets are calm once again as volatility remains low on Wall Street. The VIX fear index is hovering just around 11.13, while...
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March 21 - News - Comments
The year 2016 has not been good for hedge funds, which are currently being criticized over their general underperformance. This year has also been bad...
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December 15 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
Activist investor Barry Rosenstein’s Jana Partners is a hedge fund with long and short exposure to the equity markets. The investment firm follows...
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December 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Are a company’s corporate insiders buying or selling? That represents a relevant question for various types of investors in the stock market. One of...
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November 23 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Bill Gates is the wealthiest man on the planet with a net worth in excess of $70 billion. Just like you and me, Bill wants to earn a return on his pile...
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November 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
After falling sharply overnight due to the surprise news that Donald J Trump will become the next President of the United States, the markets have opened...
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November 9 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Plenty of research concludes that securities purchases on the part of corporate insiders beat broader market gauges by a wide margin on aggregate. It...
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November 7 - Insider Trading, News - Comments
Barry Rosenstein, the founder of JANA Partners LLC, recently has said that active management is cyclical in nature. The $7 billion hedge fund run by him...
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October 30 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Although the U.S. weekly initial jobless claims came in 11,000 higher than expected for the week ended October 15, the markets are flat this morning as...
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October 20 - Market Movers, News - Comments
At a time when the Dow is up by 65 points, the Nasdaq is flat, and the S&P is 0.25% in the green, shares of five companies are getting battered in...
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October 19 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Dividend aristocrats are by definition some of the most wide-moat and dependable stocks available on the market today. Dividend aristocrats are stocks...
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September 24 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Wall Street is quiet today after the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday decision of keeping interest rates the same. All three major index futures are...
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September 22 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
Investors are buzzing about WTI today after today’s EIA report showed a significant drop in oil inventories, which confirmed the bullish API report...
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September 8 - Commodities, Market Movers, News - Comments
JANA Partners LLC is a New York-based hedge fund specializing in event-driven investing founded by well-known activist investor Barry Rosenstein in 2001...
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August 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Hedge Fund Manager Tepper Is ‘On Guard’ Toward The Market (CNBC) Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper, who may already have signaled in a recent...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Healthcare stocks started 2016 with the left foot and, but most stocks have managed to recuperate most of the ground lost. Despite the poor performance...
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August 11 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Christopher R. Hansen‘s Valiant Capital Management recently disclosed the contents of its U.S. equity portfolio as of the end of June via a 13F...
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August 11 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Healthcare stocks, along with food and drink-related securities, are usually recommended as defensive holdings for recessions and bear markets, as individuals...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Different investors and consumers have come to know pharmacy and well-being company Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) through a variety of ways...
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June 20 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
The three main indexes opened lower on Thursday as traders anticipate the housing starts release tomorrow and the Brexit vote next week. Volatility could...
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June 16 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
The markets have bounced back after opening in the red this morning, due to concerns that a Brexit might lead to potential chaos in the financial sector...
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June 13 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Tom Gayner became the head of Markel Gayner Asset Management‘s investment division in 1990. He has been Markel’s chief investment officer...
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May 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The US stock market plunged after the bell on the back of April nonfarm payrolls data, which showed that 160,000 jobs were created last month, versus...
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May 6 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Owing to the meteoric rise it has enjoyed over the past couple of years, billionaire Andreas Halvorson‘s Viking Global is counted among the leaders...
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April 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Oil is slumping on Tuesday, which is dragging the stock markets down with it, as all major U.S stock indexes are down by more than 0.6%. Among some of...
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April 5 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Founded in 2001, Barry Rosenstein‘s JANA Partners has reportedly delivered 23% annual returns since its inception. However, during the first three...
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April 5 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) has steadily grown its dividend for 40 straight years and has an operating history that dates back more than...
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March 14 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Amid the latest market volatility, dividend investing is one of the safest bets on the equity markets. Large investors select dividend stocks not just...
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March 5 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Ole Andreas Halvorsen, who once worked for Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management, founded Viking Global Investors in 1999. The $30 billion...
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Giovine Capital is a California-based long/short equity hedge fund founded by Thomas A. Giovine in 1998. Mr. Giovine holds a M.S. in Finance from The...
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February 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Viking Global is a force to reckon with on the Street. Not only is it among the world’s largest hedge funds in terms of assets under management,...
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
With volatility a bit lower this morning after yesterday’s more than 2% move, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE:FCAU), Chipotle Mexican Grill...
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January 14 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) has experienced decades of growth by providing customers with a convenient location for medicine and grocery...
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January 11 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Jeff Ubben of ValueAct Capital is a pretty successful investor. Not only has he built up his fund to have an equity portfolio of $17.20 billion since...
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December 20 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Seeing as all three indexes have surged more than 1% in morning trading as the Federal Reserve promises interest rates will still be low for a while,...
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December 15 - News - Comments
DSAM Partners, a London based fund founded by Guy Shahar with an equity portfolio of $218 million, has recently filed its 13F filing for the third quarter...
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December 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Valiant Capital, led by Christopher R. Hansen, recently has filed its latest 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing a public equity...
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December 5 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech - Comments
The third quarter of 2015 was one of the worst periods that stocks from the healthcare sector have seen in the recent times. However, in spite of the...
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December 3 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Hedge fund investors and other money managers have filed their 13Fs for the September quarter, but those positions may be substantially outdated considering...
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November 25 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
OZ Management is one of the most famous and largest long/short equity hedge funds based out of New York. As of November 1, the fund boasted an estimated...
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November 23 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In its most recent 13F, billionaire Barry Rosenstein’s JANA Partners has disclosed a U.S equity portfolio worth $8.9 billion as of the reporting period...
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November 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) is a Virginia-based financial holding and insurance company. It invests its ‘float’ in the equity markets through...
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November 12 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Thomas Giovine founded Giovine Capital in 1988. Due to good stock picking and solid risk controls, the fund, which has a long-term horizon and low-turnover...
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November 8 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds - Comments
