Atticus Capital
Atticus Capital is a $13 billion New York-based hedge fund, founded by Timothy Barakett in 1995. The fund in known for taking large concentrated positions in select stocks.
Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild is Co-Chairman of Atticus Capital.
Atticus Capital holds a large stake in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX). Atticus also owns a large stake in MasterCard (NYSE: MA),
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, hedge fund Atticus Capital denied rumors it is liquidating. In fact, Atticus founder Tim Barakett told them, "We're certainly not liquidating... we have a large net cash position and are looking for opportunities to invest capital."
These rumors about Atticus and other hedge funds followed news ...
Atticus Capital is out with its 13F for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. Notably, Atticus showed new stakes in Chesapeake Energy, Focus Media, Google, Peabody Energy and Praxair. Atticus raised its stakes in Baidu, Boeing, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific while cutting his stakes in Freeport-McMoRan, MasterCard and NYSE Euronext, each of which he was a large shareholder in.
Below is a full summary:
New Stakes:
American Tower (NYSE: AMT) 5,691 shares
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) 1,755 shares
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) 64,471 shares
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) 82,280 shares
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) 11,434 shares
Focus Media (Nasdaq: FMCN) 1,799,313 shares
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) 443 shares
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) 7,365 shares
Monsanto (NYSE: MON) 3,816 shares
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) 3,526,815 shares
Potash (NYSE: POT) 3,332 shares
Praxair (NYSE: PX) ...
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Hedge fund Atticus Capital issued thier latest 13F for the quarter ended 3/31/08, below are some highlights from the filing:
Notable New Stakes:
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU) new 918,000 share stake
Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE: NEM) new 1,022,400 share stake
Visa (NYSE: V) new 7,799,500 share stake. (March IPO)
Notable Raised Stakes:
Genomic Health Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) from 1,844,251 ...
In a 13G filing on Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), Tremblant Capital a 5.95% stake (11,562,153 share) in the company. The firm held 4,229,324 ...
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