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Hedge Fund Managers See Declining Earnings Contradicted By Increasing Multiples
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 1:54pm | 348Read More...John Burbank III is the chief investment officer of Passport Capital, a global macro hedge fund that boasts $4.1 billion in assets. The fund manager discussed his views on the market during an interview with Real Vision Television. Yahoo! Finance quoted the fund manager as saying during his...
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Top Investment Ideas From Top Hedge Fund Managers For the Year Ahead
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 2:41pm | 839Read More...The SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT) is a congregation of experts in various sub-industries throughout the United States, each of whom have come together to facilitate balanced discussions and communication. Richard Chilton Richard Chilton’s stock pick for 2016, and for the next six...
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SALT 2015: Top Investment Ideas From Bass, Burbank, Chanos & Cooperman
Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 5:22pm | 744Read More...Some of the top investment managers in the United States presented some of their best investment themes and ideas at SALT Conference 2015 on Thursday. The panel was moderated by Omeed Malik and panelists consisted of Kyle Bass, John Burbank, Jim Chanos, Leon Cooperman and Michael Karsh. Leon...
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Chinese Retailer JD.com Set To Begin Trading Thursday
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 9:02pm | 576Read More...What has 47.4 million active customer accounts, 86 warehouses in 36 cities, 1,620 delivery stations in 495 cities and 24,412 professionally trained delivery staff? Amazon.com, right? Wrong. Chinese eCommerce direct sales company, JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), priced its massive, 93,685,620 American...
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Passport Capital's John Burbank on Bloomberg Television: Bearish on Markets; Investing in Oil
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 3:17pm | 879Read More...Fund manager John Burbank, who manages about $4 billion in assets as founder and chief investment officer of Passport Capital LLC, spoke about his bearish view of the economy with Bloomberg TV's Margaret Brennan this morning. Burbank spoke about his investments in the Saudi stock market as well as...
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Passport Capital's John Burbank Tells Bloomberg He Is Betting On Commodity Decline
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 12:56pm | 1016Read More...John Burbank of Passport Capital spoke exclusively with Bloomberg Television's Margaret Brennan this morning. He said that he's betting on declines in all commodities because of the end of QE2 and that gold may drop until August. Burbank also said that unless governments inject liquidity into the...
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Passport Capital's John Burbank On Bloomberg Television
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 5:24pm | 870Read More...John Burbank, founder and CIO of Passport Capital (who predicted the subprime crisis), appeared on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan" to talk about Fed policy, the role of resource scarcity in his investment strategy and the outlook for the U.S. economy. Burbank says that as...
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Passport Capital Holdings And 3Q Investor Letter (MSFT, XOM, LVS, CF)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 4:44pm | 176Read More...John Burbank provides a glimpse of his hedge fund Passport Capital's portfolio in his third quarter letter to investors. The fund has gained an average of 23.1% annually since its inception in August of 2000. In 2010, the fund has gained 7.9% and Passport manages over $5 billion. Burbank has his...
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John Burbank Is Huge In Agriculture
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:40pm | 83Read More...John Burbank spoke at the Value Investing Congress and said he has large positions in agriculture names, particularly Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) and CF Industries (NYSE: CF). He also mentioned he had a position in Potash (NYSE: POT), which has been the subject of takeover talks with BHP Billiton (NYSE...
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John Burbank Is Long Steel, Short Copper
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:38pm | 55Read More...John Burbank spoke at the Value Investing Congress and said he is long steel and short copper. A way to play this is to go long Market Vectors Steel ETF (NYSE: SLX) and short the Copper ETF (NYSE: JJC).
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John Burbank At The Value Investing Congress
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:35pm | 279Read More...John Burbank, of Passport Asset Management spoke at the Value Investing Congress, and said that political contributions in this country are done by just over 28,000 at their full maximum allowed, and if this tiny number was doubled, the political landscape could change drastically. Burbank...
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Burbank Likes Physical Assets (POT, XOM)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 11:58am | 102Read More...John Burbank spoke at the Value Investing Congress and he said he likes physical commodity stocks, like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), and Potash (NYSE: POT). He also holds physical gold through UBS, not the gold ETF. (NYSE: GLD) He also said he holds Kraft (NYSE: KFT), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Dr....
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From Hot Dogs to Hedge Funds
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 2:34pm | 541Read More...John Burbank is a man among boys when it comes to money management. After launching his hedge fund in 2000, John has since become a widely respected and widely followed player in finance. But you don’t have to take my word for it — just listen to the $3.2 billion his clients trust him with on a...
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Trade Like Hedge Fund Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones (EEM, FXI, MJN, PGNX, RSX, XLP)
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 1:12pm | 760Read More...Paul Tudor Jones is widely considered to be one of the best traders to ever lay down a position. His long term consistency has been remarkable. Jones is a global-macro trader who got his start trading futures markets. In 2009 his estimated net-worth was $6.3 billion, making him one of the...
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A Passport to High Returns - part 2 - Interview With John Burbank
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 8:30am | 2158Read More...John Burbank is the founder of the hedge fund Passport Capital. He is a widely followed money manager with a record of success since he launched his firm in 2000. John famously predicted the decline of the American housing market starting in 2005 and reaped a return of over 200% in 2007. John had a...
