Hedge Fund - Viking Global

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 in the hedge fund industry.

Just recently, iconic investor Warren Buffett said that investors should not mimic his investment picks or those of other highly-successful money managers.

Kite Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:KITE) is the subject of a new 13G filing issued by Andreas Halvorsen‘s Viking Global.

Billionaire Ole Andreas Halvorsen, who once worked for Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management, founded Viking Global Investors in 1999.

As a new 13G filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed, Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global holds a long position in Editas Medicine Inc (NASDAQ:EDIT).

Although the hedge fund industry as a whole lost money in 2015, the top 20 hedge fund managers generated roughly $15 billion net of fees last year.

Individual investors can catch a glimpse of hedge funds’ equity positions by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings.

Apparently, the hedge fund industry as a whole does not believe that a long-term bear market for U.S equities is forthcoming, as they have been net buyers of stocks during the last four trading weeks...

It is widely-known that hedge fund strategies vary quite a lot and thus so do their targets and bets.