Larry Robbins' Latest Stock Picks To Protect Your Portfolio

By Vatalyst: There has been a sudden surge in investor interest in large cap stocks as investors seek earnings growth and stability due to the ongoing poor economic outlook and market volatility. This has seen many large cap stocks rise in value over the last months.

By Stock Croc:Paul Tudor Jones founded the hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation in 1980, which now has approximately $11 billion of funds under management. He is well known for having tripled his capital by anticipating the 1987 market crash.

In this installment of my analysis of recent purchases made by renowne-d investors, I will look at stocks bought by Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital Management using the latest available SEC filings of the fund. By performing relative valuation, I have calculated my preliminary price targets for the stocks to judge the attractiveness of these companies at current prices.

By Stock Croc:Howard Marks is Chairman of Oaktree Capital, which he founded in 1995. Since then he has built his institutional investment firm into a $76 billion investment company in high-yield bonds, distressed debt, and private equity. Recently, he hasn’t taken a particular view on markets other than to say that:

Ganaxi Small Cap Movers submits: Summary: Guru Mark Kingdon of Kingdon Capital Management has generated an outstanding 15%-18% long-term compounded return for investors in his hedge funds over the last 25 years, well ahead of the market index returns. His best new conviction buys include Citigroup (C), McDonalds Corp.

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Insider Monkey submits: Larry Robbins’ Glenview, once a $9 billion hedge fund, lost around half of its assets and underperformed the market in 2008. Asset losses and a poor performance made them lay off 12 employees right before Christmas that year. Glenview lost around 50% in 2008, but the bad days may be behind them now.

Market Folly submits:Larry Robbins' hedge fund Glenview Capital has disclosed an updated stake in Punch Taverns (PCTVY.PK) due to trading on October 28th.