Hedge Fund - Fisher Asset Management

Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management filed a few weeks ago its Form 13F for the second quarter of 2014.

Although chances of outperforming the wider market by emulating hedge fund picks is quite unlikely, odds increase when you focus on small-cap companies ($1 billion-$5billion market cap, approximately).

Billionaire Ken Fisher's Fisher Asset Management has recently revealed its equity portfolio as at the end of the first quarter of 2014.

Four of six BlueCrest Capital strategies were positive in December, with the hedge fund operator’s BlueCrest Capital International and BlueTrend finding difficulty.

In the current round of 13F filings, hedge funds and other institutional investors are disclosing their equity portfolios as held at the end of the last year.

Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management, revealed in different filing, several moves that have impacted its equity portfolio. One of the companies involved is Veeco Instruments Inc.

Once per quarter hedge funds disclose their long stock positions in major U.S. publicly traded companies.

In the U.S. equity markets, there are roughly 15,000 publicly traded companies, so it’s understandable if some of these fall through the cracks.

Biggest hedge fund in the world: The entire hedge fund industry manages a little under $2 trillion in assets, and the largest of the bunch is Bridgewater Associates, which oversees more than $140 billion...