Hedge Fund - Southeastern Asset Management

In today’s marketplace, there are plenty of indicators investors can use to track the equity markets. A pair of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.

If you were to ask many investors, hedge funds are perceived as useless, outdated investment tools of an era lost to time.

At the moment, there are tons of indicators shareholders can use to monitor the equity markets. Two of the most under-the-radar are hedge fund and insider trading movement.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) is in the middle of a key battle between management and hedge fund activist Carl Icahn.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) and Herbalife Ltd.

During the fourth quarter of 2012, Southeastern Management, a large mutual fund managed by billionaire Mason Hawkins, initiated a position of 1.5 million shares in CNH Global NV (NYSE:CNH), a $10 billion...

This just in, Mason Hawkins' Southeastern Asset Management reported its selling of 2,541,753 shares of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) in a 13G filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mason Hawkins founded Tennessee-based Southeastern Asset Management in 1975. Southwestern manages roughly $32 billion, with locations in Tennessee, London, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

As of the close of trading on Friday, March 8, the S&P 500 had already surged almost 9% in 2013 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was sitting at new all-time highs.