For Akre Capital Management Founder Charles Akre, investment success is all about the power of compounding. As Akre puts it, "Many people think of us as a 'value investor' and others ask whether we are a value or a growth investor. We’ve started to say, we’re neither,...
At the Sohn San Francisco Investment Conference last year, Gil Simon of SoMa Equity Partners presented his best idea: SailPoint Technologies (SAIL). The Sohn conference is renowned as an annual event where hedge fund managers make market-moving presentations. Indeed, after Simon -- a rising star in the...
Leading health care-focused hedge fund Perceptive Advisors increased its Neptune Wellness (NEPT) stake by 37%, buying 5,000,000 shares. The fund made the disclosure via a 13G/A "passive" filing yesterday. Perceptive's purchase comes days after the Quebec-based cannabis extraction company announced a new partnership that will pay Neptune...
As we've written before, Abdiel Capital is all about focus. Managing partners Colin Moran and Geoffrey Gentile don't spread their bets around much -- they run a concentrated long book. Abdiel's 13F portfolio, disclosed last Friday, showed that the fund's $2.14B in long holdings was invested...
RA Capital has outperformed all other healthcare hedge funds over the past decade, based on 13F holdings. In fact, RA's 30.88% annualized return of it's equal-weighted top 20 long portfolio led all other hedge funds over that period. So, when RA manager Peter Kolchinsky discloses portfolio changes,...
On March 4, Marathon Partners called ELF Beauty "undervalued" in a 13D filing with the SEC. The New York City-based hedge fund disclosed a 5.2% stake, and said in the filing it has "engaged, and plans to continue to engage, with the Issuer’s management and Board of...
Last week, Abdiel Capital added to its its Appian and Fastly stakes -- core positions for the top-performing fund. Managing partners Colin Moran and Geoffrey Gentile of New York-based Abdiel Capital Advisors aren't big on diversification. The managers prefer to focus on a...
MGM Resorts International (MGM) stock has collapsed 72% over the last three months -- losing about $13 billion of market value -- as the Coronavirus pandemic forces a shutdown of the U.S casino industry. MGM's 30 properties around the U.S.,including its trademark MGM Grand casino and...
Michael Burry's Scion Management averaged down on the fund's position in Tailored Brands (TLRD), buying 402,900 shares of the distressed retailer in the days leading up to March 16. Scion now owns 7.2% of the company. TLRD closed at $1.29 on March 20, down 69% year-to date....
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...