Samantha Greenberg Beating Wall Street Guys With Short Strategy

With the HSBC Hedge Weekly reporting US-focused long / short hedge funds were up an uninspiring 0.27% on the year, a female fund manager appears to be bucking the trend. Samantha Greenberg’s Margate Capital is up 3.27% in the third quarter alone, positive by 8.36% on the year, the New York-based hedge fund told investors in a letter reviewed by ValueWalk.

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How could Greenberg, perhaps the most famous of the "Paulson Cubs," be so pointedly lapping well known long / short fund managers such as Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, who HSBC reported is down 25.90% year to date? She is equally outpacing the finely tuned computers at Renaissance Technologies, whose algorithms...