Hedge fund managers are filing their Q4 2009 13F-HR forms over the next few days. I’ve posted some of their holding spreadsheets below and will add links as reports come in. If you have a strong case for other managers I should include, send me an email or post in the comments below. Also, keep [...]
While many value investing sites sing platitudes about the usual suspects — Buffett, Munger, Klarman, Berkowitz, Lampert, Pabrai, et al — one name seems to slip under the radar: Robert Rodriguez of First Pacific Advisors. Of all my 13F filing breakdowns, Rodriguez’s is one of the least viewed. For what reason, who can say? It [...]
Unlike some of the managers I reviewed yesterday, Bruce Berkowitz and his cohorts at the Fairholme Capital have been buying. A scan of their Q3 2009 holdings spreadsheet suggests they favor healthcare companies and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B). Fairholme opened two new positions, both in the healthcare industry: Wyeth (WYE) and Cardinal Health (CAH). However, [...]
Meryl Witmer is back as it appears Eagle Value Partners is building its stock portfolio. If you have a strong case for other managers I should include, send me an email or post in the comments below. Also, keep in mind that I use a perl script to parse these filings into the spreadsheet format [...]
The Fairholme Fund have bounced back nicely in 2009, showing a 30% gain for the year. Quick summary follows but you can view Berkowitz’s portfolio moves in this spreadsheet. Their new positions seem to indicate that Berkowitz has changed his mind regarding some lukewarm comments about Berkshire Hathaway’s low growth potential a while back. He [...]
Meryl Witmer’s filing under Eagle Value Partners is puzzling as it contains only two stocks — I am unaware of any pertinent factors that may explain this filing so if readers have more knowledge than I, please clue us in. In any case, I have excluded Witmer’s filing but am please to bring back Marty [...]
