Muhlenkamp & Co. Inc., the investment firm founded by Ronald Muhlenkamp (Trades, Portfolio), released its portfolio for the second quarter last week.

While he is still acting as the firm's chairman, Muhlenkamp passed most operational responsibilities on to his sons last year. With the goal of maximizing returns through capital appreciation, as well as income from dividends and interest, his Wexford, Pennsylvania-based firm typically invests in highly profitable companies trading at a discount. When picking stocks, it seeks companies with strong balance sheets and high returns on equity. The firm believes that over time, stock prices reflect

Who would have expected a superstar of the financial crisis, with a return of 212% in 2007, to have trouble making mid-single-digits since then?

Kyle Bass (Trades, Portfolio), a Texan hedge fund manager, has made some interesting bets over the past decade, but none have revived the old magic.

What is it about his global shorting strategy that has gone wrong?

Who is Bass?

Born in Miami, Florida, Texas-based D Magazine says Bass moved to Dallas as a child.

His investment career began at Bear Stearns, in the field

Hayman Capital Management’s Kyle Bass (Trades, Portfolio) reduced his stake in NMI Holdings Inc. (NMIH) by 27.24% on Oct. 11.

Bass founded Hayman Capital in 2005. The Dallas-based hedge fund has been struggling recently due mostly to the state of oil prices. While the firm prospered with Bass’ shorting of the subprime mortgage crisis leading up to the Great Recession, he was not so fortuitous in regard to predicting oil prices.

In 2015, Bass began buying into oil companies such as Concho Resources (CXO) and Whiting Petroleum (WLL) with the expectation crude oil prices would rebound in

Kyle Bass (Trades, Portfolio) of Hayman Capital Management has reported an increase in his stake in NMI Holdings Inc. (NMIH). Bass is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Hayman Capital Management, which he founded in 2006. Bass’ portfolio is primarily focused in the real estate market, and he is well known for his ability to identify real estate market mispricings. Most notably, Bass is known for his substantial investment gains obtained from the use of synthetic credit securities utilized during the subprime mortgage crisis.

As an investor in the real estate equity market Bass’ portfolio is

According to GuruFocus Insider Data, the recent CFO buys were: NMI Holdings Inc. (NMIH), LKQ Corp (LKQ), and Tronox Ltd (TROX).

NMI Holdings Inc.: CFO buys 10,000 shares

On 08/07/2015, CFO Glenn Michael Farrell bought 10,000 shares at an average price of $8.58. The price of the stock has increased by 1.05%. NMI Holdings Inc. has a market cap of $469.491 million and its shares were traded at around $8.67. The company has a P/S ratio of 14.64.

NMI Holdings Inc. announced its 2015 first-quarter results with revenues of $10.39 million and gross profit of $8.06 million; the net income

Kyle Bass (Trades, Portfolio), founder of Dallas, Texas-based hedge fund Hayman Capital Management, has built a reputation for predicting and benefiting from economic events, such as the subprime mortgage crisis and the European sovereign-debt crisis.

In the first quarter of 2015, Bass made 24 new buys, most of them in the oil and gas industry at a time when gas prices were beginning to rebound. Bass didn’t touch the two most valuable stakes in his portfolio – NMI Holdings Inc (NMIH) and General Motors Co (GM) – in the first quarter, but new buys filled out the

Howard Marks (Trades, Portfolio), the chairman of Oaktree Capital who calls his investing approach “entirely bottom-up,” is continuing to build a stake in private mortgage insurer NMI Holdings Inc. (NMIH) as its stock posted an almost 20% total decline year to date.

Marks increased the position more than 27% on Feb. 20 to a total of 3,422,674 shares, giving him 5.86% interest in the company. Previously, Marks started the stake with 600,300 shares in the third quarter of 2014 when the price averaged about $10 for the quarter. In the fourth quarter, he boosted it to 2,689,080