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 in the months to the end of August, the spread of returns has exploded. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and...
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 letter to investors, which ValueWalk has been able to review, Maverick Fund USA gained 18% in the second quarter. Following...
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 poor performance. The closure is the latest in a string of high-profile hedge funds that have decided to shut up shop...
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 of which ValueWalk has been able to review, Roubaix's small and mid-cap equity strategy outperformed its benchmark, the HFRI Equity...
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 has dragged on because Bridgewater’s offer is both less than what has been paid to men who left the firm...
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 copy of which ValueWalk has been able to review. According to the update, coming into March, the newly formed fund had...
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 investor letter, a copy of which ValueWalk has been able to review. Writing in his first-quarter investor letter, Kupperman said that...
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 the Nasdaq Composite over the same period, according to a copy of the fund's first-quarter letter to investors, which ValueWalk...
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 a second look. David Capital, a small hedge fund founded and managed by Adam Patinkin CFA, achieved a high-teens for investors...
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 for clients around the world, has achieved an average annualized return in the region of 20%. What's more, Baupost often...
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 Cub Lee Ainslie, is using market declines to "upgrade the quality of the portfolio," by adding to companies that were...
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 is one of the world's oldest quantitative hedge funds, has gained 37% so far this year. That's compared to a...
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 hedge fund letters, conferences and more rawpixel / Pixabay If you’re looking for value stocks, and exclusive access to value-focused hedge fund...
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 on to add that value investors may often experience "poor, even horrendous" performance compared to the rest of the market...
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. Following this performance, for the year to the end of June the fund has returned 19.87% and 25.42% net and...
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 2018 when the firm ended the year with a loss of -11%, its worst performance since the financial crisis. For more...
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn reported his worst year ever last year. Greenlight Capital's main fund lost 9% in December, bringing its decline for 2018 to 34%. However, the fund manager's fortunes have improved this year. Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc If you’re looking for value stocks, and exclusive...
George Soros is one of the most successful hedge fund managers ever. While at the helm of the Quantum Fund (founded by Soros and Jim Rogers in the 70s), he generated an average annual return for investors of 30%. Across this ten-part series, I’m taking a look at Soros’ life, trading career, and...
This is the final part of a five-part interview with Zeke Ashton Portfolio Manager and founder of Centaur Capital Partners. The interview is part of ValueWalk’s Value Fund Interview Series. Throughout this series, we are publishing weekly interviews with value-oriented hedge funds, and asset managers. All the past interviews in the...
WCM Global Growth Limited was up 4.03% for January, just barely missing its benchmark MSCI All County World (ex-Australia) Index, which gained 4.54% for the month. However, WCM has beaten its benchmark looking at the last three, six and 12 months and since inception. The MSCI All Country World...
Deer Park Road's flagship STS Master Fund, added 4.71% in December, bringing the fund's total year-to-date performance to 10.3% net of all fees and expenses. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc The $2.6 billion hedge fund achieve this positive performance despite the return of volatility in the third and fourth...
The amazing story of Theranos, a company started in 2003 by a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, is told in page-turning detail in a recent book by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. Despite an incredibly distinguished board, leading venture capital investors, raves from a respected Stanford dean and contracts with...
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