New Website Tracks Prominent Short Selling Activists

When the financial history books are written, 2014 could be characterized as the year of the aggressive activist hedge fund manager. Into the often aggressive and sometimes brutal fray comes a new service that allows interested parties to track the activist hedge funds short selling, providing the ability to monitor, benchmark and analyze their tactics.

Short selling generating alpha-based profitability

Activism has grown to new historic high levels on several levels. But most important, never before have activist hedge fund short-sellers generated so much alpha-based profitability. Considering the facts on a year over year basis bears this out.

The activists are generating nearly three times as...