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klarmaniac

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  1. Does anyone know of a service where I get hedge fund performance data? My strategy is to get ideas from 13Fs and then do my own research, but my 13F list is skewed too heavily toward the big guys that get all the press (Ackman, Loeb, Einhorn, etc). I'd like to add the best value investors who have $100m to $1b AUM. Ideally I'd like to be able to screen based on performance, drawdown, longevity, turnover, etc to find good ones I didn't know about, but even if not, at least the ability to look up specific investors to see their performance and what they did to achieve it. I hear good things about certain smaller funds (Greenhaven, Alluvial, Denali, etc.) but usually their sites don't have performance info and a google search turns up little or nothing. I used to use alphaclone but it looks like they stopped selling data. Willing to pay for it if it's not too expensive. Any ideas would be very much appreciated :)
  2. You can tell from my user ID that I'm a fan of Klarman, but he certainly doesn't share his investment strategies and techniques as openly as some other gurus. In any case, here's a similar but more comprehensive article about Buffett's strategies that you guys might like: http://www.businessdictionary.com/article/896/investing-lessons-of-warren-buffett/
  3. With all asset prices rising I've been selling more and buying less and so cash is comprising a bigger percent of my portfolio. I checked with my brokerages to make sure the cash was safe but I wasn't impressed by their answers. FDIC insurance seems to only cover $250k. Apparently this used to be per account, but I think it's now a total for a given social security number. The brokerages usually have additional coverage, but it seems very limited. For the two I talked to, they had aggregate limits of around $500m across all their accounts, for all cash balances above $250k per account. That seems ridiculously inadequate for brokerages with millions of accounts. I asked how much they currently have in balances above $250k per account and they said they didn't know. I think it would have to be at least tens of billions, meaning the insurance covers almost nothing. I also had trouble getting details on what exactly is protected. Bank/brokerage failure? Unauthorized withdraws (which one article claims has risen fivefold in the last two years)? etc. The only other option I've found is CDARs and MMAXs, which I think would require a lot of care and feeding (e.g. laddering). For now I'm fine with zero return, I just want a totally safe place to keep cash which I can access immediately if the market drops a lot. Does anyone know how hedge funds, mutual funds and other institutions with large cash holdings keep their cash safe? Or have you found a way to keep your cash safe? Any ideas are very much appreciated :)
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