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As Tiger Cubs Enter Their Fourth Generation, How Much Overlap Exists?

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Mark Melin
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The "Tiger Cubs," those hedge funds spawned by Julian Robertson of Tiger Management, are growing in complexity as the family now extends into a fourth generation.

Novus Tiger Cubs Overlap

Keeping tabs on their investing activities is interesting and shows that as a group, now nearing 50 managers who are tracked and managing nearly $155 billion, they don’t overlap as one might assume.

The average overlap among the funds tracked by Novus stands at just 12 percent.  But as a group their diversification strategy is color coded to show their generation. This also reveals a current bias towards consumer discretionary stocks, information technology and healthcare.

Tiger Cubs' definite tendency towards...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.