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This new activist hedge fund is shaking up Europe

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Bluebell Capital Partners was up 1% year to date at the end of August, versus the STOXX Europe 600, which has returned -11.3%. The European activist hedge fund is fairly new, but its co-founders are not new to the activism scene. They spoke to ValueWalk about their background, brand of activism, strategy, and two of their positions.

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Background on Bluebell

Bluebell was co-founded by Giuseppe Bivona, Marco Taricco and Francesco Trapani, who all serve as chief investment officers. Bivona and Taricco each have about 25 years of financial experience with U.S. investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan). Trapani is the former...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.