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Compare Apple to Amazon: How Different Company Cultures Get Great Results
Apple is a tech company founded in 1976 in Cupertino, California, whose pursuit of great design and beautiful products says “Money is no object.” Compare this to Amazon, founded almost 20 years later in Seattle, Washington, is a company known for its frugality that breathes “we’re gonna save you money.” Both companies rose to mega-fame […]
Hedge Funds Re-Friend Facebook
Known for their recent less than sterling performance, hedge funds partly redeemed themselves in the 4Q of 2018. Smartly catching tech stocks as they sunk to their lowest points in recent months, hedge funds were able to cash in on that sectors happy double-digit resurgence. The most-owned stock for the largest of the alternative funds […]
Einhorn’s Greenlight Hits Red Light in February
Performing more poorly than the S&P 500 Index loss of 3.7 percent in February, David Einhorn’s main fund, Greenlight Capital, lost 6.2 percent during the same period for a total downturn of 12.3 percent for 2018. Einhorn explained that his hedge fund was going through its worst performance in its history after losing 6.6 percent in […]
Apple Snubbed by Hedge Funds
According to an assessment of hedge fund holdings compiled by Goldman Sachs, Apple Inc, is the only “big five” tech company that is not also a “top five” stock holding among hedge fund investors. The five most-owned companies by hedge funds are Time-Warner, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Microsoft. The publication lists the 50 stocks that […]
Three Caught Trading on Insider Info
Two friends from college with aspirations to owning a hedge fund company were caught trying to cash in on Amazon insider info. Washington state residents Maziar Rezakhani and Sam Sadeghi paid $10,000 to Brett Kennedy, an Amazon analyst, for information about the online retailer’s 2015 first-quarter earnings. The pair of hedge fund wannabes used that […]
Bad Bets of 2014
With only a few days left of 2014 we thought now is a good time to look back and see what predictions did not work out quite so well for some major hedge fund managers. General Motors is a well-liked holding which is popular as a component of hedge funds. Unfortunately it seems for many […]