The ten most underrated hedge funds are not famous. But the managers running these funds have consistently generated exceptional returns despite (or maybe because) they fly under the radar. The stock picks of the managers on this list have handily outperformed most of the "wizards of...
Tiger Global and Matrix Capital are the two best performing "Tiger Cubs" over the last year. In fact, the two hedge funds' long 13F returns are two of the best in the entire hedge fund universe. That's based on equal-weighted holdings of each fund's top 20 positions,...
Light Street Capital filed a 13G on Monday July 22, disclosing a 5.2% stake in cybersecurity firm Carbon Black, Inc. (CBLK).
The Palo Alto-based hedge fund acquired the $69 million CBLK position as cyber attacks become an increasing problem for U.S. corporations, and...
On February 28 , Martha Stewart's Sequential Brands (SQBG) announced that the lifestyle celebrity has teamed up with Canopy Brands (CGC) to develop and promote a line of hemp-based CBD products. SQBG stock spiked higher on the news, nearly doubling at one point before settling at $2.00...
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...
It's been a challenging investing landscape over the last year, to say the least. From Sept. 30, 2019 through Feb. 19, 2020, the S&P 500 gained 14%. Then the Coronavirus pandemic swept in like a giant Black Swan. The market swooned 34% over the next month, bottoming...
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...
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...
Whether they’re called penny stocks, micro-caps, OTC stocks or “lottery tickets,” low-priced, illiquid stocks of small companies have a bad reputation with many investors. Unquestionably micro-cap stocks can be illiquid, risky and highly speculative. Nonetheless, Hedge Funds can and do hold lots of micro-caps.
Ark Investment Management Founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager Catherine Wood invests in what she calls "Disruptive Innovation." Wood has been successful with this approach, to say the least. Cloning Ark Investments' 13F portfolio since Q1 of 2017 would have resulted in a 39.74% annualized return. That's nearly...