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How To Invest In Hedge Funds (When You Don't Understand Them)
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 12:09pm | 487Quite often, our readers ask how to invest in hedge funds: “I don’t know the first thing about them. Other than Warren Buffett, who’s good? Are the fees worth it?” Looking for an answer to such a common query, Benzinga reached out to Don Steinbrugge, one of the top experts...
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Expert: Why Smaller Hedge Funds Will Continue To Outperform Larger Ones
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 12:30pm | 614Don Steinbrugge is one of the best-known experts in the hedge fund industry, with over three decades of experience in the arena. He has been running Agecroft Partners, a global, award-winning hedge fund consulting and marketing firm for almost 10 years now. Prior to that, he worked at Andor Capital...
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Investors Need To 'Get Used' To Hedge Fund Bosses Making Too Much
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 1:38pm | 274Bloombeg's Noah Smith offered a unique look into how hedge funds really operate — and how their bosses take home hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. One striking example includes Michael Platt, founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, who took home $260 million in...
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Apple Has Three More 'Miss-And-Lower' Quarters To Go, Whitney Tilson Warns
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 4:42pm | 561On an aggregate scale, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is consistently a favorite in the hedge fund industry. The company's track record, shareholder-friendly actions of late and cheap valuation metrics makes it an easy pick for a money manager with assets to invest. Kase Capital Management's...
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Apple Is Under-Owned In Hedge Fund Land
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 11:56am | 431Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares are up 1.3 percent on Tuesday, flirting with the $100 level after an upgrade from Bank of America and a new $130 price target. A major part of analysts' bullishness was related to "multiple" upside levers, including the Apple Watch, the iPhone 6s and...
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Why Does This Hedge Fund Invest In Small- And Mid-Cap Banks?
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 1:28pm | 999Bluestone Capital Management’s Bluestone Financial Institutions Fund is a directional, long-short hedge fund focused on publicly traded micro-, small- and mid-capitalization banks based in the U.S. Bluestone Financial Institutions Fund is open to qualified clients only – individuals...
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DarcMatter Democratizes Access To Alternatives For Individual Investors
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 1:20pm | 1102DarcMatter is an online platform designed to democratize access to alternative investments. Benzinga spoke with DarcMatter CEO and founder Sang H. Lee to learn about the company and the opportunities it provides investors. Related Link: Why Some Alternative Investments Make A Lot Of Sense...
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Investors Bet Big On Currency-Hedged German ETF
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 3:34pm | 629Germany has been one of the strongest European markets in 2015 as its foremost index, the German DAX, hit an all-time high of 12,000 this week. This historic bullish momentum for German stocks is linked to continued depreciation in the euro and deliberate quantitative easing efforts by the...
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Ever Wanted To Replicate A Hedge Fund? HedgeCoVest Explains How
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 12:33pm | 925Who will be the next Apple? What company with what disruptive idea will turn the world of technology upside down? In this series, Benzinga interviewed CEOs of several technology startups that are making waves today in hopes of making a difference tomorrow. One of the problems with defining a...
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Hedge Fund Manager: If Herbalife Had Nothing To Hide, It Would Sue Bill Ackman For Slander
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 2:53pm | 329When asked about Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman's accusations against Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF), Hedge Fund Manager and Rand Strategic Partners Founder Todd Sullivan said that if the company had nothing to hide, then it would be suing the activist investor for...
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Why This Hedge Fund Hasn't Purchased Atlantic City Debt
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 1:01pm | 452David Tawil is the co-founder of Maglan Capital, an event-driven hedge fund that focuses on distressed events and situations like bankruptcy. Tawil recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to talk about why his fund hasn’t purchased any Atlantic City Debt. Tawil started by...
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Citigroup Looks To Close 2.4 Billion Division (C)
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 9:24am | 332Citigroup (NYSE: C) is looking to divest its alternative investment group, The Wall Street Journal reported, but a Citigroup spokesperson refused to comment. For the year ended 2012, the company’s collection of hedge fund, private equity, and real estate investments totalled just 2.38 billion....
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Starting a Hedge Fund—It's Easier Than You Think
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 10:55am | 1239A fund manager without a Bachelor’s Degree shares the secrets to making it big in the hedge fund business Don Conrad has come a long way. As a teenager in the small Long Island hamlet of Port Washington, Conrad worked the night shift at a factory. He operated a pinion--best described as a...
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Options in Portfolio Allocation: A Significant Problem
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 9:23am | 1087How do you place a value on options positions within a portfolio? Actually, because of the nature of options it is extremely difficult – if not impossible – to accurately balance an asset allocation target that includes derivatives. For example, a portfolio of $1 million specified the...
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Wikileaks' Stratfor E-Mails Reveal an Investment Plot Worthy of a Spy Novel
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 5:08pm | 784Imagine an intelligence agency that uses the information it collects – some if which was gathered through coercive tactics – to trade on the markets in order to expand its operations. It reads like a scenario out of a James Bond novel. Yet, according to internal e-mails from Strategy Forecasting...