As Covid-19 has devastated the global economy in 2020, Ken Griffin and his team at Citadel have used the opportunity to snap up distressed assets at bargain prices. During an event last week for the Robin Hood Foundation, where trading legend Paul Tudor Jones interviewed Griffin, he said that his...
Softbank has spent most of its 2020 fighting fires. The Japanese conglomerate and its founder, Masayoshi Son, have struggled with legal battles, volatile markets, and reputational issues over the past 12 months. The Covid-19 pandemic nearly bought the company to its knees. To restore investor confidence in the junk-rated tech-focused...
Eric DeLamarter's Half Moon Capital returned 12.4% net of fees in the third quarter of 2020. Compared to for the S&P 500, Russell 2000, and HFRI Hedge Fund indices that recorded returns of 8.9%, 5.0% and 5.3%, respectively. DeLamarter founded Half Moon in 2011 following a stint at value-oriented hedge...
According to a copy of the firm's September tear sheet, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors' Fundamental Equity fund returned 0.83% in the month of September, which ValueWalk has been able to review. Following this performance, Fundamental Equity has returned 6.7% net in 2020 for the nine months to the end of September....
Egerton Capital was co-founded in 1994 by John Armitage. Since then, the firm has yielded huge profits for its investors. Some estimates put the total value of investing earnings at over $20 billion, making it one of the most profitable hedge funds of all time. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters,...
Roubaix Capital's flagship investment fund declined by 1.19% in the month of September. However, despite this negative monthly performance, the fund returned 15.6% for the year to the end of September, outperforming the S&P 500, which returned just 5.6% over the same period. Roubaix employs a fundamental long/short equity strategy...
Edward Mulé, the co-Founder, CEO, and Portfolio Manager of Silver Point Capital, was one of the leading speakers at this year's Invest For Kids conference. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Silver Point is a private investment firm focused on credit, distressed and special situations. For more up-to-date hedge fund...
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital funds returned 5.9% in the third quarter of 2020, compared to a gain of 8.9% for the S&P 500 in the same period. This year has been particularly challenging for value investors. Growth stocks have surged as value has struggled. For Greenlight, one of Wall Street's...
At this year's Invest For Kids conference, Sam Zell spoke with Hyatt CEO Mark Koppelman about the current investment environment. Zell is a Wall Street legend. He was a pioneer of real estate investment trusts and has made a fortune investing in undervalued real estate properties and holding them for...
At this year's Invest For Kids conference, hedge fund manager Jim Chanos pitched a tech giant as his favorite short idea. Jim Chanos is a Wall Street legend. The president and founder of Kynikos Associates made his name shorting Enron in the 1990s. He has since identified some of the...
In 1994, Peter Lynch, who was one of the most successful fund managers of all time, penned an article describing the process he used to uncover bargain stocks. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Lynch wasn't a value investor in the traditional sense. He did not follow the value...
It is well-known that Warren Buffett does not like to invest in turnaround situations. He has made several comments to reinforce this point over the years. He once declared, "turnarounds seldom turn." Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The Oracle of Omaha also once said, "When a management with...
Carlson Capital's Black Diamond Arbitrage fund declined 1.03% net of fees in the third quarter of 2020, according to a copy of its investor correspondence, which ValueWalk has been able to review. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The event-driven hedge fund, which specializes in special situations, noted that...
The first two months of the third quarter were the best months for D1 Capital Partners' public portfolio since inception, that's according to a copy of the firm's August update, which ValueWalk has been able to review. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more According to the update, D1's public...
Every investor wants to find the next big thing. Unfortunately, this is almost certainly harder than it appears. Unless you have a crystal ball, finding the next hot stock is almost impossible. One issue investors have to contend with is the fact that the next big thing is often hidden...
Josh Friedman, the co-founder of Canyon Partners, was one of the keynote speakers at this year's Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference. The $24 billion fund group specializes in value-oriented investments, with a focus on distressed credit securitized assets, real estate and value equities. According to the hedge fund's second-quarter letter to...
The billionaire investor and founder of Oaktree Capital, Howard Marks, took a series of questions at this year's Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference. Marks is a Wall Street legend. He founded Oaktree in 1995 after spending ten years working at The TCW Group, Inc, where he was responsible for distressed...
Glen Kacher, the Founder & CIO of Light Street Capital, was one of the keynote speakers at this year's Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference. The hedge fund manager founded Light Street in 2010 after a stint with Integral Capital Partners, where he joined as a Principal in 1998 and became...
At this year’s Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference, Jeffrey B. Osher, the founder of No Street Capital, pitched mattress business Purple Innovation Inc as his favorite stock. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Osher founded No Street in 2018. Before that, he was a portfolio manager at Harvest Capital...
Peter Lynch is one of the best investors of the 20th century. As the Magellan Fund manager at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more He specialized in finding undervalued growth stocks and holding these companies as they...
At this year's Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference, Gil Simon, the Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner of SoMa Equity Partners, pitched Uber as his favorite stocks. SoMa Equity Partners is a long/short equity manager focused on the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector. It was co-founded by Gil Simon in...
Electron Capital's flagship Electron Global fund reported a strong third quarter. According to a copy of the firm's third-quarter investor update, a copy of which ValueWalk has been able to review, the estimated net return for the Electron Global Fund LP at the end of September quarter-to-date was +27.4%. Q2...
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