High yield junk-debt funds are a growing business at the moment, and one of the biggest beneficiaries is The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) according to an article in Businessweek. The funds, non-traded business-development companies, which were invented just four years ago, were sold in abundance last year, the market for them doubled from 2011 to $2.8 billion.
As Baupost’s President and Head of Public Investments Jim Mooney looks at the current volatility landscape, he uses a mathematical logic that considers the mechanics of how leverage impacts... read more
Frederick "Shad" Rowe talks at Google from May 30th 2018. Fredrick is a long-only consumer focused investor with a stellar track record over 3 decades. In this talk, Shad... read more
As central banks around the world begin to reduce their balance sheet heft, the question rumbles around: what type of downstream impact might the reduction of quantitative stimulus have... read more
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) released its earnings report for the three months through September this afternoon after the market closed in New York. The company showed earnings per share of... read more
Lawmakers took up the often confusing topic of dark pools in a hearing Friday, and many appeared to come out of the hearing with no more understanding than what... read more
According to research from European fund manager SMA Gestion, most active managers "turn" their portfolio on average approximately once a year, which means that the holding period of investments... read more
Thoughts On The Unexpected Resignation Of Lumber Liquidators' CEO by Whitney Tislon, Seeking Alpha Summary I was shocked by this announcement because it undermines all of the company’s denials. It is powerful... read more
Tiger cub Rob Citrone's Discovery Capital joins the club of hedge funds who were buying Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) over the last quarter. Discovery Capital bought 672,600 shares of Apple... read more
We are seeing reflation in China but will it lead to any real growth? Probably not, says one big bank. The reflation theme has been a key driver of equity... read more
Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital is attempting a shakeup at Health Management Associates Inc (NYSE:HMA). In an open letter to other shareholders of HMA, Robbins intimates that his firm has started a... read more
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