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• 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 »

• The Johnny Depp of Closed-End Funds Talks CUBA (part 3)

  By Nick Slepko - October 4, 2012 | Tickers: GTMAY.PK, CUBA, RA, SEB, TE

  Closed-end fund guru Tom Herzfeld discusses Cuba and his most popular fund, the Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (NASDAQ: CUBA).

  [Continued from part 2]

  Nick Slepko:  How did you end up a boat person – which is to say, how did you end up in Florida? 

  Tom Herzfeld: I went to a textile engineering school because my family was in apparel manufacturing, and since I was an only child my parents said more »

• A Complete Picture of the Global Economy Was Provided Today

  By Eric Lumsden - December 13, 2011 | Tickers: EWZ, MAN, RA

  Yesterday was a day of mixed economic news.  The overall economic picture is positive, but contracting.

  Ratings agency Fitch cut their growth outlook for Brazil from 3.5% to 2.8%.  The iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF (NYSEMKT: EWZ) fell 1.42% over the day.  The ETF took a dive in the beginning of August and is currently down 24.37% year to date.
  
  Shipper RailAmerica Inc. (NYSE: RA), which more »