Thursday 28 August 2014

Hedge funds are not buying? At least some of them.

hello,

The recently published the latest reports and summaries positions in the portfolios worth noting the two perhaps best known funds in the world.

I mean, among other things controlled by Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway, which at June 30 this year, had $ 55 billion in cash patiently waiting for buying opportunities.

In turn, the George Soros Fund, built nominally worth $ 1.3 billion position in put options on the S&P500 Index, allowing to earn a possible decrease in this Index. At the end of the second quarter was the largest position in the portfolio of Soros Fund Management constituting 17 percent of assets.
 
chart 1. Number of put options on the S&P500 in the portfolio of Soros Fund Management (thousand pcs.)
 source: SEC

In addition, I want to show how the summary trading with volume. 15-session average is at its lowest level during the entire bull market. Even at the beginning of 2012 it was about 70% higher.

There's no one to buy the shares, but still less investor sells them.
 
chart 2. SP500 Index with volume; 2014-08-28

regards,
oscarjp

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