Intercont (Cayman) Ltd (NCT)

Former Third Point portfolio manager Bradley Louis Radoff disclosed in an amended 13D filing that BLR Partners dumped 753K shares of Newcastle Investment Corp (NYSE:NCT) last Friday.

It seems that the masses and most of the financial media hate hedge funds and what they do, but why is this hatred of hedge funds so prominent? At the end of the day, these asset management firms do not...

Tim Mullen’s Swift Run Capital Management recently disclosed with the SEC its long equity positions as of the end of the second quarter of 2014.

Tipp Hill Capital (formerly Y/Cap Management) is a hedge fund managed by Richard L. Haydon, which recently disclosed at the SEC its long equity positions as of June 30, 2014.

After each quarter, hedge funds and other major investors disclose many of their long equity positions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

For months, the story has been that Newcastle would slowly divest its odds-and-ends collection of investments to focus on senior housing.

At the moment, there are dozens of gauges investors can use to track the equity markets. Two of the best are hedge fund and insider trading interest.

Mortgage REITs invest in mortgage-backed securities (MBSes) using short-term financing. Since their investments are long term in nature, they yield interest farther out on the yield curve.

If you were to ask many investors, hedge funds are seen as delayed, outdated financial vehicles of a period lost to current times.