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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: Yesterday, we highlighted the miserable performance of Sears Holdings (SHLD) over the last several weeks. Since SHLD is most often associated with Eddie Lampert, we looked to see how the rest of the stocks in his portfolio have been doing. Lampert's hedge fund is called RBS Partners, and based on its holdings at the end of the third quarter,...
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Bespoke Investment Group (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Yesterday, we highlighted the miserable performance of Sears Holdings (SHLD) over the last several weeks. Since SHLD is most often associated with Eddie Lampert, we looked to see how the rest of the stocks in his portfolio have been doing. Lampert's hedge fund is called RBS Partners, and based on its holdings at the end of the third quarter, the...
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SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Greg Newton submits: It’s been a week or two since anybody called Eddie Lampert “The next Warren Buffett.” And now, it seems, either Bill Ackman got the memo, or even value tramps (not a typo) have stops. From the 13F-HRs of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, vis-a-vis its long dance with Two-Wrongs-Don’t-Make-A-Right (SHLD): Complete Story »
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NakedShorts (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
It’s been a week or two since anybody called Eddie Lampert “The next Warren Buffett.” And now, it seems, either Bill Ackman got the memo, or even value tramps (not a typo) have stops. From the 13F-HRs of Pershing Square...
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The Street (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... investment ideas. Company Name (Ticker)Filer NameTitle(s)SharesBoughtDollarValueAutonation (AN)Lampert Edward SBO763,700$4,732,246 L-1 Identity Solutions (ID)Lapenta Robert VCB,CEO,PR,DIR,BO300,000$1,425,000 BB&T (BBT)Maynard James HDIR38,000$1,000,312 Sirf Technology Holdings (SIRF)Rajaratnam RajBO674,869$877,969 Kapstone Paper & Packaging (KPPC)Stone Roger WCB,CEO,DIR,BO120,416$593,601...
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InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Good things could be in store for Sears this holiday shopping season. What other retailers is its chairman buying?Image:...
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The Street (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Good things could be in store for Sears this holiday shopping season. What other retailers is its chairman buying?
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Thanks to insecure consumers, Eddie Lampert's faltering retail investments are about to lose him even more money.
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DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Most people are aware of the fact that Eddie Lampert's investment in Sears Holdings probably wasn't his best idea to date, and I would include the hooker community in that group of people. In the hierarchy of who is the first through the last to know your fund is taking a bath cause you thought the crock pot business was booming, call girls come just after your most trusted advisors...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... it was considered more of a real-estate play -- or even a quasi-hedge-fund vehicle for Chairman Eddie Lampert -- than a retailer. It slashed marketing and store spending while raising prices. Rundown stores, disappointing inventory and higher prices chased business away and got people out of the habit of shopping there. Enter stores like Target Corp. (:TGT, , , Last: Delayed quote...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
Even for a billionaire hedge-fund titan, losing $30 million an hour has got to be a bummer. That's what Eddie Lampert, the chairman of Sears Holdings, has experienced with just his nine largest holdings since Sept. 19 - over just 26 trading days...
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Global Financial News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... a very, very long time since I've stepped into a Kmart. In fact, there isn't a Kmart close to me. Eddie Lampert's enormous task of helping to turn this ship around is not one I envy. Of course, many retailers make the mistake of only focusing on merchandising in the stores and figuring out what should be in the weekly circulars. Don't get me wrong, that's important stuff. But Sears...
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SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Todd Sullivan submits: 55.00002% of AutoNation's (AN) outstanding shares are now held by Bill Gates, Eddie Lampert and Todd Sullivan. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has taken a 10% stake in car retailer AutoNation Inc., according to a regulatory filing Friday. Gates' investment firm, Cascade Investment LLC, owns 9.4 million shares , or 5.3 percent, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
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Contrarian Value Investing (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Everyone has their favorite “gurus”. The obvious picks being Warren Buffett, Charles Minger and Eddie Lampert. But outside those names there are a few interesting individuals whose picks are tougher to decipher. In the small cap arena we have Paul Sonkin who is profiled in Bruce Greenwald’s book and Aeron Edelheit. Moving on to a [...]
