After several tireless days we have finished crunching the numbers from nearly 750 13F filings issued by the elite hedge funds and other investment firms that we track at Insider Monkey, which disclosed those firms’ equity portfolios as of September 30th. The results of that effort will be put on display in this article, as […] …read more […]
We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 41.7% this year and beat […] …read more […]
How do you pick the next stock to invest in? One way would be to spend days of research browsing through thousands of publicly traded companies. However, an easier way is to look at the stocks that smart money investors are collectively bullish on. Hedge funds and other institutional investors usually invest large amounts of […] …read more […]
Friday’s booming U.S. jobs report should give the Federal Reserve all it needs to stick to its plan not to cut interest rates further in the near future, so when U.S. central bankers meet this week, most of the focus will be on their outlook for next year and beyond.
Although the masses and most of the financial media blame hedge funds for their exorbitant fee structure and disappointing performance, these investors have proved to have great stock picking abilities over the years (that’s why their assets under management continue to swell). We believe hedge fund sentiment should serve as a crucial tool of an […] …read more […]
It is already common knowledge that individual investors do not usually have the necessary resources and abilities to properly research an investment opportunity. As a result, most investors pick their illusory “winners” by making a superficial analysis and research that leads to poor performance on aggregate. Since stock returns aren’t usually symmetrically distributed and index […] …read more […]
HSBC Holdings, Simon Property Group, Westpac Banking and Molson Coors Brewing present buying opportunities Continue reading… …read more […]
Insiders invest in Cigna, Dollar Tree, Keurig Dr Pepper and Expedia Continue reading… …read more […]
2019 has been a tough year for oil companies, but some of the oil majors have fared surprisingly well due to their economies of scale advantage and low breakeven prices per barrel …read more […]
It has been a tough year for energy investors, with a record number of bankruptcies in the space and its key benchmark underperforming, but there are still plenty of ways for energy investors to profit in 2020 …read more […]
Other featured articles discuss a consumer finance stock that looks attractive now and a struggling retailer in need of a miracle. “5 Funds and 5 Stocks to Ride the Small-Caps Rally” by Avi Salzman and John Coumarianos examines why shares of companies with market values of $5 billion or less, such as Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR), could thrive if the economy holds up. See why Barron’s thinks Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) is cheap and looks attractive right now. …read more […]
The unwillingness of the top four U.S. banks to lend cash combined with a burst of demand from hedge funds for secured funding could explain a recent spike in U.S. money market rates, the Bank for International Settlements said.
Q3 2019 Michaels Companies Inc Earnings Call …read more […]
Britain’s biggest retailer, Tesco , has signaled a further retreat from its once lofty global ambitions by starting a review of its remaining Asian businesses, which could result in a sale of those Thai and Malaysian operations.
The internet’s promise of encouraging free flow of information is facing challenges surrounding misinformation, data breaches, and government censorship — prompting a call for major changes within the network. …read more […]
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