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Roku Wins A New Investor: Ken Griffin
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 9:30am | 272Read More...A 13G filing from hedge fund manager Ken Griffin's Citadel Advisors shows a new 5% stake in Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU). Griffin founded Citadel in 1990 and has since served as the firm’s CEO, managing over $32 billion in capital for its partners. In 2014. Griffin donated $150...
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Delivering Alpha 2018: Everything You Need To Know
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 7:48am | 700Read More...The Delivering Alpha 2018 conference took place Wednesday in New York, and this year’s event included a number of Wall Street heavy-hitters. Benzinga Pro reported live from Delivering Alpha all day long, and Benzinga Pro subscribers have followed all the action in real time using the keyword...
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What Happens When Some Of The Biggest Names In Finance Gather For Dinner? They Talk About Trump
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 3:32pm | 314Read More...Barry Sternlicht, the chairman and CEO of the global investment firm Starwood Capital Group was a guest on CNBC Tuesday and talked about Monday night's dinner. Normally listening to someone's dinner plans from the prior night isn't of much interest - but Sternlicht was joined with...
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Some Of The Most Notable Changes This 13F Season
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 3:06pm | 639Read More...Having passed the SEC deadline for Q3 13F filings, most large hedge funds and investment management firms already disclosed their long equity positions as of September 30. While aggregate data and stats aren't out yet, Benzinga wanted to share a quick look into some of the most notable...
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How Does Bill Ackman's Chipotle Stake Compare To Other Activists In The Fast Casual Sector?
Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 5:42am | 465Read More...Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) gained almost 6 percent Wednesday, after Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square disclosed a 9.9 percent stake in the restaurant operator. It should be noted that the 2,882,463 shares position has an activist nature, as suggested by the 13D SEC...
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CEOs Vs. Hedge Fund Managers: Who Gets Paid Better?
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 9:49am | 715Read More...Do you want to become a billionaire? What about running a company? Ever wondered if you’d get richer making it to CEO or as a money manager? Well, Benzinga’s got some pointers for you. The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm, recently published a list of the 10 highest-...
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Mark Cuban & Ken Griffin Boosted Their Stakes In These Companies
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 4:14pm | 304Read More...Here's a look at two moves disclosed by major investors on Monday. Citadel Advisors Ken Griffin’s Citadel Advisors, a firm that last disclosed an equity portfolio worth more than $91 billion, declared an enormous increase in its exposure to Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR). The fund had...
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Everything You Might Have Missed This 13F Season: Part 1
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 4:21pm | 888Read More...Institutional investment managers with more than $100 million in assets under management and relevant long stakes in U.S. listed equities are required to disclose their long positions once per quarter via 13F filings. 13Fs for the fourth quarter of 2015 were due February 16, 2016, but many...
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Carl Icahn & Christian Leone's Latest Moves In Small-Cap Stocks
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 5:42am | 456Read More...Tracking hedge fund moves can be an easy and useful way to come up with research-backed investment ideas.Let’s take a look at some of the most relevant transactions in the past couple of days. Carl Icahn On Wednesday, billionaire Carl Icahn filed a Schedule 13D with the SEC disclosing a...
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Seth Klarman's Baupost Group Is Bullish On Energy & Communications
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 3:05pm | 461Read More...Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group is one the largest hedge funds in the world. Its equity portfolio, now worth roughly $6 billion, comprises only 32 stocks, and is mostly allocated to energy (40 percent), information technology (31 percent) and healthcare (22 percent) stocks. Over the second...
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What Steven Cohen Did With His Wealth In Q2
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 3:02pm | 647Read More...Steven Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management recently disclosed its long equity stakes for the second quarter of the year. After more than 960 stock purchases and sales, the fund’s equity portfolio’s value fell slightly, from $14.67 billion as of the end of the first quarter, to $14....
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Jim Simons Betting On Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive, Novo Nordisk & Alaska Air
Friday, August 14, 2015 - 2:21pm | 561Read More...On Friday, Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies filed its Form 13F for the second quarter of the year, disclosing its long equity positions as of June 30, 2015. So, let’s take a look at the firm’s portfolio and some of its most interesting moves and positions. After 479 new...
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Yale University Is Bullish On ETFs & Alexion, Sold Twitter Last Quarter
Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 3:24pm | 319Read More...Yale University recently revealed its latest 13F filing. The value of the university fund's equity portfolio more than quintupled over the second quarter, to $352.5 million. Eighty one percent of the total assets are allocated to financial stocks, and another 16 percent to health care...
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Guess? Expected To Deliver Worst Quarter In Years
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 1:37pm | 338Read More...Guess?, Inc. (NYSE: GES) is scheduled to announce Q1 2016 financial results, scheduled for after the market closes on Tuesday. According to Estimize, expectations point towards the weakest earnings in years. The company’s earnings respond to a cycle, peaking in the fourth quarter and...
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Tesla Lost Popularity Among Institutional Investors In Q1
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 11:19am | 427Read More...It seems like Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) lost popularity over the first quarter of the year. Not only did the company see more firms close their positions (70) than start new ones (56), but also it witnessed a 22 percent decline in the number of institutions that count its stock amongst its...
