With Paulson's star long gone down, there are few remaining "new generation" hedge fund wunderkinds, especially in a world in which the best performing hedge fund is Federal Reserve Capital LLC - Onshore Fund. One among them is Third Point's Dan Loeb, who continues to be one of the best performing hedge fund managers for the 4th year in a row. He just filed his Q1 13F [15], amounting to $5.3 billion in disclosed long equity positions, which are summarized below.
Of note are the following changes:
- New stakes in Virgin Media ($538MM), Tiffany ($188MM), Anadarko ($105MM), Thermo Fisher ($99MM), Cabot Oil and Gas ($84MM), Hess ($72MM) and others. Some of these overlap with the initiations of David Tepper and David Einhorn especially Hess: did some "idea dinners" take place in Q1 we were not aware of?
- Fully exited stakes in Tesoro, Morgan Stanley, Nexen, Symantec, Herbalife, Illumina, Coke, PVH, Abbott Labs and others.
- Reduced positions in Yahoo, AIG, New Corp, Murphy Oil, Delphi, Lyondell and others
- Added to stakes in International Paper, Abbvie, Dollar General, Constellation, and Ariad
Obviously, no short positions are disclosed, however with Ben Bernanke now serving as supreme hedge fund manager to all, why does anyone even bother with hedges?
Full breakdown below.
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