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Warren Buffett: Value Investor Conference 2013
Watch Warren Buffett’s Interview Following Berkshire Hathaway’s Shareholder Meeting On Reuters Insider. Warren Buffett’s Interview Video here Other Insider videos from the conference include: -...
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Toscafund Sells Citigroup, Capital One; Buys Blackstone, Penn
Toscafund Asset Management is a London-based hedge fund managed by “Rottweiler” Martin Hughes. The hedge fund said in its 13F filing for the quarter ending March 31 that it added seven new stocks to...
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Hutchin Hill Buys Virgin Media, News Corp; Sells Starz, Dole Food
Hutchin Hill Capital filed its first quarter 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulatory filings show that the hedge fund added a whopping 277 new stocks to its portfolio, increased...
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Baupost Buys Elan Corp, DIRECTV, Sells Genworth, News Corp
Baupost Group, the hedge fund managed by Seth Klarman has investments in 18 stocks in the first quarter of 2013, based on its 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The market value of...
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Edward Thorp: My Encounters With Madoff’s Scheme
Edward Thorp My Encounters With Madoff’s Scheme and Other Swindles Uncovering Madoff Fraud by Thorp Excerpt: “On the afternoon of Thursday, December 11, 2008, I got the news I had been expecting for...
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Herbalife Jumps 11%, Threatening Ackman’s Long-Term Short
Back when the Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) fight was at its most public, Carl Icahn, who is long on the company, said that Bill Ackman would face the “mother of all short squeezes” on the equity. With...
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Hedge Funds: Coming To A Billboard Near You
Hedge funds are viewed sceptically by much of United States law. Though the firms are allowed to make big bets on almost anything they want, they face several restrictions on the way they operate, and...
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Hedge Fund Shortsellers Down 12% In 2013: Natixis
Natixis is out with their april report on hedge funds. All hedge fund strategies not only underperformed but are significantly trailing the market (for a second year in a row). However, short funds are...
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Students Launching Hedge Funds On Colleges Across America
What’s a surefire indicator that hedge funds are on the rise? Take a look at their presence on college campuses. From Cornell, whose student-run hedge fund beat Wall Street returns to the University of...
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3 SAC Executives Receive Subpoenas
Three top executives at fund manager SAC Capital have been subpoenaed as part of regulator’s insider trading case against the company, according to a piece on the Wall Street Journal. The head of the...
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Is Ben Bernanke Killing or Helping Hedge Funds?
Hedge funds aren’t doing well in recent months. A new chart, which was released by Goldman Sachs, showed the performance of the industry against major indices. The result, as any contemporary investor...
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Quarterly Crowding Report On Top Hedge Fund Holdings
Corre Group’s recently released Quarterly Crowding Report provides insight into how hedge funds are being over-concentrated in terms of value and ownership. The first quarter 2013 report analyzed 250...
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Steven Cohen Considers Closing SAC Capital; Opening ‘Family Office’
Steven Cohen is considering the idea of closing down his beleaguered hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors and opening a “family office” to manage its personal funds. Cohen has $9 billion investments in his...
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Lone Pine Capital Boosts Stake In Realogy Holdings
Lone Pine Capital, the hedge fund managed by billionaire investor Stephen Mandel Jr. increased its stake in Realogy Holdings Corp (NYSE:RLGY), a real estate franchise, brokerage and relocation services...
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Thomas Russo: In Investing “Then What?” Is A Great Question To Ask
What struck him about Buffett was that he came across as a person who spent most of his time thinking about things that made sense to him, unlike things they taught at Stanford, which didn’t make any...
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Bill Ackman Plans To Sell 7 Million CP Shares
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management L.P., plans to sell up to 29 percent of its stake in Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (NYSE:CP) (TSE:CP). New York hedge fund manager Bill Ackman owned...
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Bill Ackman: Shutting Herbalife would be life’s greatest achievement
Pershing Square Foundation’s scholarship initiatives are meant to train a new batch of social entrepreneurs, according to Bill Ackman. The prominent hedge fund manger disclosed during his interview...
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Goldman Tests Waters With Hedge Fund For The Masses
The decision by Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.(NYSE:GS) asset management arm (GSAM) to launch the Multi-Manager Alternatives Fund last month generated considerable interest in the industry due to the two...
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BlueCrest Capital Benefits From Volatile Markets in Japan and Europe
One of the few large and growing credit focused hedge funds, BlueCrest Capital, returned 0.27 percent in April according to a shareholder letter obtained by ValueWalk. While this may seem a very weak...
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Niederhoffer Capital Up 28%, Short Gold Pays Off
R. G. Niederhoffer Capital’s flagship Diversified Program with $527 million under management is up 27.7 percent for the year through May. The Niederhoffer Capital fund was up 5.6 percent in April but...
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