Gardner Denver Inc (GDI)

As we already know from media reports and hedge fund investor letters, hedge funds delivered their best returns in a decade.

The financial regulations require hedge funds and wealthy investors that crossed the $100 million equity holdings threshold to file a report that shows their positions at the end of every quarter.

Before we spend countless hours researching a company, we'd like to analyze what insiders, hedge funds and billionaire investors think of the stock first.

During the fourth quarter the Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) lagged the larger S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by nearly 7 percentage points as investors worried over the possible ramifications of rising interest rates.

The fourth quarter was a rough one for most investors, as fears of a rising interest rate environment in the U.S, a trade war with China, and a more or less stagnant Europe, weighed heavily on the minds...

In the eyes of many traders, hedge funds are perceived as delayed, outdated investment tools of a forgotten age.

Earlier this month we reported on the 13D Activist Fund, a long-only fund which invests in stocks targeted by activist investors (as disclosed in 13D filings shortly after the activist acquires 5% of ...

If you were to ask many of your peers, hedge funds are assumed to be overrated, old investment tools of an era lost to time.

To the average investor, there are many indicators investors can use to analyze the equity markets. A duo of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading activity.