Wednesday, May 16, 2012

When Hedge-Fund Stars Come Out





According to the Wall St Journal David Einhorn, Jeff Gundlach and other prominent hedge-fund managers took center stage at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to share their investment ideas—and investors wasted little time acting on what they said.

Speaking at the annual Ira Sohn Investment Conference, Greenlight Capital's Mr. Einhorn presented the case against shares of Martin Marietta Materials Inc., while leaving alone another stock that had appeared on the hedge-fund manager's radar, Herbalife Ltd. Shares of each company rocketed in opposite directions.

Mr. Einhorn called Martin Marietta a stock "with a lot of problems" and criticized the construction-materials company's chief executive….

Find out more at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303879604577408561390504608.html

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