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Total Value: $5,311 Mil
Q/Q Turnover: 34%
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Daniel Loeb is an activist investor who has recently suggested a few ideas to top holding Sony (SNE), via a less strongly worded letter to top management than usual. He could be out to replicate his success with Yahoo (YHOO), a sleepy company he shook up and then watched rise 75% in stock price the past 12 months. Loeb’s 10.5% return through April lagged the S&P 500 index’s 12.7%, though his annualized return since the inception of Third Point, his event-driven hedge fund, is 17.9%, compared to 6.6% for the S&P 500.
Highest-earning hedge fund managers are in the spotlight this week as many of the investor Gurus have found a place on the new “Rich List” released by Institutional Investor’s Alpha. Third Point’s letter-writing shareholder activist founder Daniel Loeb is No. 10 on the Rich List, and is reported to have earned $380 million in 2012. 
Putting Politics Aside to Make Money
In a difficult quarter for hedge funds, and rather pleasant one for the S&P 500, Daniel Loeb bested the market with a 13.3% in his Ultra Fund in the first three months of the year, according to CNBC. By comparison, the S&P returned 10%, and the average hedge fund eked out just 3.13%. Loeb, the leader of hedge fund Third Point well known for his stormy business shakeups in his activist investment targets and event-driven investment strategy, saw several points of his strategy blossom this year. 
Aside from arguing with Bill Ackman about Herbalife (HLF), the founder of $11.6 billion hedge fund Daniel Loeb in February acquired a new second-largest position, Virgin Media (VMED), according to his fund’s monthly update. The position sits underneath Yahoo (YHOO), meaning it must have less than a 26.6% weighting in his portfolio, and above physical gold. 
Daniel Loeb reduced his position in largest holding Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) by 15.07% on Feb. 1, 2012, according to GuruFocus Real Time Picks. After the sale, he owns 62,000,000 shares. The founder of hedge fund Third Point LLC began building his 6.17% Yahoo stake in the third quarter of 2011 when the price averaged about $14 per share. Loeb chose to trim the position after a strong rally in the stock, implying he may believe its current three-year high share price is near its intrinsic value.
After taking an 8 percent stake in Herbalife (HLF) earlier this month, a company that’s on several hedge fund managers’ shorting lists, including Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman, activist investor Daniel Loeb of Third Point has allegedly made a baffling decision to short Herbalife rival, Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS). 
New Equity Position: Herbalife (HLF): Herbalife is a leading provider of weight management and nutritional supplements operating in more than 80 countries through a network of independent distributors. The stock declined by nearly half last month following controversial assertions made by a short seller about Herbalife’s business model and practices. Third Point has a different view and holds about 8% of Herbalife outstanding common stock, which we acquired mostly during the panicked selling that followed the short seller’s dramatic claims.
Increasingly, legendary activist investor Daniel Loeb, founder of New York-based hedge fund Third Point LLC, has long locked-in his reputation in the investing world largely by stirring media controversy through his very public shareholder letters that boldly highlight his aggressive attempts to push for change and replenish company board seats. 
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