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• Fed Governor Exposes Mortgage REIT Risk

  By Reuben Brewer - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: MTGE, ACAS, ARR

  In a recent speech, Fed Governor Jeremy Stein used mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) as an example of the impact of the Federal Reserve's low rate policy. While his speech wasn't an effort to say mortgage REITs are bad investments, investors need to understand the risks these niche securities pose.

  A Simple Example

  Stein explains: “These agency REITs buy agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), fund them largely in more »

• Fed Governor Exposes Mortgage REIT Risk

  By Reuben Brewer - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: MTGE, ACAS, ARR

  In a recent speech, Fed Governor Jeremy Stein used mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) as an example of the impact of the Federal Reserve's low rate policy. While his speech wasn't an effort to say mortgage REITs are bad investments, investors need to understand the risks these niche securities pose.

  A Simple Example

  Stein explains: “These agency REITs buy agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), fund them largely in more »

• Fed Governor Exposes Mortgage REIT Risk

  By Reuben Brewer - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: MTGE, ACAS, ARR

  In a recent speech, Fed Governor Jeremy Stein used mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) as an example of the impact of the Federal Reserve's low rate policy. While his speech wasn't an effort to say Mortgage REITs are bad investments, investors need to understand the risks these niche securities pose.

  A Simple Example

  Stein explains: “These agency REITs buy agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), fund them largely in more »

• This Massive Hedge Fund’s Best Under-the-Radar Investments

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 20, 2013 | Tickers: AMCX, ACAS, DECK, MSG, TRIP

  In the stock market universe, small-caps don’t get as much attention from investors, which often leaves them less efficiently priced than their larger peers. As one would reasonably expect, hedge funds seek to take advantage of this by dedicating their research teams to work on these lesser-known investments.

  Interestingly, retail investors can use hedge funds' top small-caps as a market-beating strategy; our analysis shows that the most popular small-cap more »

• Two Sigma Advisors’ Best Stock Picks

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 17, 2013 | Tickers: ACAS, ARCC, PDLI, PENN, TCO

  Small-cap stocks don’t get as much attention from analysts, which often leaves them less efficiently priced than their larger peers. As can be expected, hedge funds sometimes take advantage of this by dedicating their research teams to work on the small-cap space.

  In fact, retail investors can use hedge funds' top small-caps as a market-beating strategy; we’ve determined that the most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds can more »

• Meet This Hedge Fund’s Newest REIT

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - December 12, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, ARCT, BDN, CWH, LXP

  Commonwealth REIT (NYSE: CWH) is the newest addition to Luxor Capital's portfolio following a 13G filing with the SEC last week. Luxor has taken a new position in the office and industrial focused REIT that accounts for over 5% of Commonwealth's outstanding shares. Managed by Christian Leone, Luxor was founded in 2002 and remains employee-owned. Luxor utilizes a public equity and fixed income hybrid strategy, while primarily investing more »

• Would You Trust Your Retirement to These Companies?

  By Chris Hodge - November 14, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, BLK, BKCC, PSEC

  It was a trip when I first realized how meta I could get with my investments. I can literally invest in companies where their sole purpose was to tend to investor dollars. While this is pretty crazy, it also makes me wonder about who these companies are most committed to: the investors whose hard-earned dollars they manage, or the investors who own a share of the company and... well, the more »

• Hedge Fund Pine River Capital Management is Having a Great Year

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 25, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, BAC, OCN, WFC

  By tracking 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors, and then looking at how the prices of the stocks that they owned have changed over the course of a quarter, we can estimate the returns that a fund has earned on the long equities in its portfolio. Of course, a fund can also generate positive or negative returns on the assets it has sold short, but these positions more »

• Top Stock Picks of Best Performing Hedge Funds: Fortress Investment Group

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 24, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, BKD, NSM, RA, BOX

  Fortress Investment Group is the top-performing fund of the third quarter of the over 400 funds and investors we track, seeing a return of almost 44% during 3Q. We have calculated the value-weighted returns for 400 hedge funds in the 1500 largest stocks and complied a list of the top performing funds for the first three quarters of 2012. The returns are based on the fund’s 13F long positions more »

• How Are Hedge Funds Feeling About the Private Equity Stocks?

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 28, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, AINV, FIG, MCGC, BX

  Facebook Inc. (FB) has caused many a headache in the investing world. After the so-called debacle that was the Facebook IPO, with the company now down 40% since its opening price, we found it interesting that many funds were increasing their stakes in publicly-traded private equity firms that invest in private companies. Many top fund managers stayed invested, or were upping their stakes in the top publicly-traded private equity firms more »

• An Insider Likes This Private Capital Firm

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 13, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, NLY, AINV, CIM, PSEC

  Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC) invests equity capital and debt capital in private and public companies with enterprise values of up to $250 million across all sectors with a focus on North American energy and industrial companies. It typically makes a secured loans to portfolio companies that allow Prospect Capital some upside as well in the form of equity. Brian Oswald, who serves as the company’s CFO and CCO, purchased more »

• 9 Cheap Stocks Taking Off Right Now: Apple is One of Them

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - August 10, 2012 | Tickers: ACAS, AOL, AAPL, DFS, STX

  One of the most tempting ways to pick stocks is to look for high momentum. Has the stock been going up recently? If so, then the fundamental or technical factors behind that increase in price might continue in the future, driving it up further. Of course, sometimes stock prices rise because of unusual factors- one particularly good quarter, a flurry of media attention, and so on. One criterion that can more »