In a 13G filed Friday evening, Citadel Advisors disclosed a 19.9% Avianca Holdings (AVH) stake. Ken Griffin's hedge fund reported that it owns 82,364,111 preferred shares of AVH issued to Citadel in exchange for a $356 million investment in Avianca.
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What do Abdiel Capital, Citadel Advisers, Dragoneer Investment Group, Melvin Capital, Point 72 Asset Management, Tiger Global and Whale Rock Capital have in common? Aside from being among the world's leading hedge funds, Bill.com 13F holdings reveal all the above bought shares of Bill.Com (BILL) in Q4...
Its 13F filings season again -- when hedge fund managers show their hands.
Forty-five days after the end of every quarter, every U.S. institutional investor with assets over $100 million is required to report its holdings to the SEC via 13F filings. Last quarter...
when 13F filings were published in mid-May of 2018, it showed that for the first time since its IPO, more funds reduced FB holdings over a quarter than added shares. In Q1, 192 more funds had pared-down FB positions than had increased FB shares (left). While not a huge shift in institutional sponsorship, this indicator was possibly the canary in the coal mine, signaling that FB’s relentless institutional buying momentum had stalled.
Dr. Michael Burry's Scion Asset Management disclosed its first quarter 2019 holdings, and in a surprise, China online retailer JD.com (JD) was the hedge fund's top position. Altaba Inc. (AABA), owner of 15% of China e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA),was Scion's #2 position.
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Lottery ticket stocks are equities perceived by investors to provide a small chance of a huge payoff. Like playing the lottery, many investors find these stocks -- usually low-priced, thinly traded with little or no earnings -- very alluring. However, studies show that -- like the...
As I've written about before, there is an inverse relationship between hedge fund AUM and performance. Below we look at the top ten small hedge funds posting big returns over the last year.
Academic studies have shown that small hedge funds tend to outperform large...
Let's create a portfolio that holds the top stock ideas of the smartest, best informed, best performing hedge fund managers in the world. We won't pay hedge fund fees, nor will our money be "locked up." We'll rebalance this portfolio quarterly, so it always owns the highest...
Obscure stocks -- publicly traded, unknown, hidden companies with little or even no analyst coverage -- may not seem like good investments. Seriously, who wants to invest in a stock no one has ever heard of? Some of the top hedge fund managers in the world, that's...
Back in 2013, Bloomberg ran a profile of Brad Gerstner's Altimeter Capital that described the up-and-coming hedge fund manager as an adventurer -- an amateur pilot and heli-skier who hangs out with big-time CEOs at Burning Man. The article said Gerstner wanted to build a Venture Capital...