Einhorn's Largest Q409 Positions Include CIT, Ford and Gold

Market Folly submits:Dealbreaker has posted up the latest investor letter from David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital and in it we see that Greenlight is 98% long, 63% short and its largest disclosed long positions in alphabetical order are:Arkema (AKE on foreign exchange, ARKAY.PK on the pink sheets)

Market Folly submits:In a recent filing with the SEC, Ken Griffin's hedge fund firm Citadel Investment Group has updated their stake in Leap Wireless (LEAP).

Market Folly submits:(This post is part of our series on tracking hedge fund portfolios. If you're unfamiliar with tracking investments they disclose via SEC filings, check out our series preface on hedge fund 13F filings.)

Market Folly submits: David Einhorn's hedge fund Greenlight Capital is a value oriented investment firm with a focus on spin-offs, mergers and other catalytic situations. Einhorn graduated Summa cum laude from Cornell and launched his long/short hedge fund with $1 million back in 1996 and nowadays is a multi-billion dollar fund.

Market Folly submits:In the past we posted David Einhorn and hedge fund Greenlight Capital's investor letter. In it, we learned that Einhorn was bullish on shares of Vodafone (VOD) as it represented one of the larger positions in Greenlight's portfolio.

Zacks.com submits: Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX) has recently announced several management changes and restructuring initiatives with an objective to strengthening the company and positioning it for long-term success in terms of accelerating profitable growth and increasing shareholder value.

Two days ago we presented the complete hedge fund performance for 2012, in which it was clear that David Einhorn's Greenlight had a Q4 that did not go quite as expected, primarily as a result of AAPL plunging in the quarter, and his hated GMCR soaring, leaving his fund with a 8% return for the year (and -5% for the quarter), well below the general market and some of his far more vocal hedge fund peers.

By Insider Monkey: By Matt Doiron