Hedge Funds Earn Their Fees In 2020 With Big Profits
Hedge funds have been one of the big winners of 2020. Funds and their managers have faced criticism over the past decade for failing to match the broader market's... Read More
Q3 2020 Hedge Fund 13F Round-Up: Notable Changes
Below is our 13F roundup for some high profile names for the three months to the end of September 2020 (Q3) The statements only include equity positions as 13Fs do... Read More
AlphaQuest Attacks Risk Parity
Data suggests quant hedge funds are having a lousy 2020, especially compared to traditional stock pickers. According to Bank of America, for the year to the end of September, the... Read More
Alibaba And Amazon Help Maverick Capital Bounce Back In Q3
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital gained 5.6% for the quarter to the end of September, according to a copy of its latest investor update, which ValueWalk has been able to... Read More
Electron Capital Up 27% YTD Says Renewable Energy Is Here To Stay
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... Read More
Gates Capital Management: Performance Improves After Fund Repositioning
Gates Capital Management's flagship ECF value fund added 9.7% net in the third quarter of 2020. That is according to a copy of the firm's latest investor update, which... Read More
Hedge Funds Report Their Biggest Gain Since 2009 As Returns Diverge
The fortunes of the world's hedge funds have continued to vary widely this year. While the industry as a whole recorded its best five-month performance since the financial crisis... Read More
Relying On Old-Fashioned Stock Picking, Lee Ainslie Reports His “Strongest Quarter” Ever
Lee Ainslie's Maverick Fund USA enjoyed its "strongest quarter in the fund's history" during the three months to the end of June. According to a copy of the firm's second-quarter... Read More
Hedge Funds: Small Firms Profit As Big Names Close In 2020
At the beginning of July, Lansdowne Partners, one of Europe's oldest and best-known hedge fund managers, announced that it was closing its flagship hedge fund after a run of... Read More
Roubaix Capital Profits With These Small-Cap Short Bets
Roubaix Capital's small and mid-cap US equity long/short strategy ended the first quarter of 2020 down 0.3% net. According to a copy of the firm's first-quarter investor update, a copy... Read More
New Finra Chairman Embroiled With Bridgewater In Gender Discrimination Dispute
Bridgewater Associates and former co-Chief Executive Officer Eileen Murray are still negotiating an exit package three months after she left the world’s biggest hedge fund -- a fight that... Read More
Scoop: Canyon Sees Profits Ahead As Distressed Companies Clean Up Balance Sheets
The market sell-off in March allowed Canyon Capital Partners' Distressed Opportunity Fund III (CDOF III) to deploy virtually all of its commitments, according to a June investor update, a... Read More
Kuppy’s Praetorian Capital: Seeking Value In Tankers
Harris Kupperman's Praetorian Capital had a pretty rough first quarter. The fund lost 41.2% net of fees during the first quarter of 2020. That's according to the firm's first-quarter... Read More
Light Street Capital: To Survive Society Must Shift to “Maximum Dependence” on the Cloud
Glen Kacher's Light Street long/short fund returned 18.1% during the first quarter of 2020. That's compared to a loss of -19.6% for the S&P 500 and - 13.9% for... Read More
Adam Patinkin Of David Capital On The Importance Of Portfolio Analysis
With most hedge funds struggling to turn a profit this year, any fund that has been able to achieve a double-digit return in the first half is worthy of... Read More
Seth Klarman’s Tips Long-Term Investing Success
Seth Klarman is one of the greatest value investors alive today. Over the past few decades, his hedge fund, the Boston-based Baupost, which manages around $30 billion of assets... Read More
[Exclusive] Lee Ainslie Using Market Volatility To “Upgrade” The Quality Of Its Portfolio
At least one hedge fund is taking advantage of the current market volatility to increase its exposure to equities. Long/short equity hedge fund Maverick Capital, which was founded by Tiger... Read More
Big Name Hedge Funds Suffer Large Losses In Market Slump: Quants Outperform
The recent market turmoil has helped a handful of hedge funds generate substantial returns for their investors. According to the Financial Times, RG Niederhoffer Capital Management's flagship diversified fund, which... Read More
This Distressed Debt Hedge Fund Has 106% IRR On All Its Funds [In-Depth]
Hedge fund results have been coming in thick and fast over the past few weeks. The results from the industry's most prominent players have attracted plenty of attention. Q4 2019... Read More
Seth Klarman: We Like Twisted, Damaged, Blemished Apples
In his now out-of-print book, Margin of Safety: Risk-averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor, Seth Klarman opined that value investing could be a "very lonely undertaking." He went... Read More
Voss Value Fund Adds 20% In H1 2019 As Small-Cap Special Situations Payoff
Who said value is dead? Voss Capital's Voss Value Fund is having a cracking 2019. For the second quarter, the firm returned 8.42% gross and 6.71% net to investors.... Read More
Third Point Gains 13.1% Net As Loeb Profits From Activist Bets
Dan Loeb's Third Point Capital is up 13.1% net of fees this year according to investor correspondence. The firm's performance this year contrasts sharply with Third Point's performance in... Read More
