Hedge Fund - Renaissance Technologies

As we continue to track insider purchases, I came across four interesting  small and micro-cap companies –market cap always over $200 million- that Jim Simons and his fund Renaissance Technologies...

In the latest 13F, Renaissance Technologies, previously managed by Jim Simons, revealed its holding for the fourth quarter of 2013.

In 1975, Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his New York apartment. Now, it's the world's largest hedge fund, managing $150 billion.

Tiger Global Management, run by Chase Coleman, has been reducing its exposure to TAL Education Group (ADR) (NYSE:XRS).

Renaissance Technologies has had one of the most successful histories of any hedge fund tracked by Insider Monkey.

Unless the SEC decides to drastically change its tone toward short sale reporting, we don’t expect to have the ability to parse through individual hedge fund managers’ short positions any time soon...

From an investment standpoint, the basic materials sector has been absolutely dreadful in 2013.

To dividend investors, yield is often the first thing that’s looked at when searching for a suitable stock to buy (in addition to this piggybacking strategy, which is pretty good too).

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...