Dan Loeb's Third Point delivered a reported 7.7% net return in Q2 2026 while dramatically reshaping its equity portfolio. A $533 million Warner Bros. Discovery position, a 486% Alphabet increase, semiconductor exits and major industrial bets reveal an event-driven investor unafraid to change course. FUNanc1al's FunFund Index™: 8.9/10.

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Alphabet just suffered a historic stock-market collapse, wiping out approximately $500 billion in value. Yet Google Cloud revenue doubled, and shares now trade more than 20% below Berkshire Hathaway's disclosed June 2026 purchase prices. With AI spending soaring and Search facing disruption, is this a rare opportunity to accumulate one of the world's greatest technology businesses? FUNanc1al investigates.

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Philippe Laffont's Coatue Management entered July 2026 riding a 24.5% first-half gain—then its flagship hedge fund fell 8.3% in a single month. Meanwhile, Coatue's Q2 13F disclosed a $48.6 billion portfolio featuring Taiwan Semiconductor, Lam Research, Micron, SpaceX, and GE Vernova. We examine the AI infrastructure strategy, semiconductor concentration, portfolio changes, and lessons for individual investors. FunFund Index™: 8.75/10.

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Thousands of positions. Selective technology trades. A SpaceX stake. D. E. Shaw offers a fascinating lesson in how investments work together—and why liquidity matters. We examine six principles retail investors can apply without trying to reproduce a quant powerhouse.

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Jeffrey Gendell’s comeback offers more than an eye-catching leaderboard result. His involvement in IES Holdings reveals seven lessons about letting winners develop, reading insider signals, understanding cash flow and managing concentration.

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Citadel’s portfolio isn’t really a stock portfolio—it’s a risk machine. We unpack Ken Griffin’s latest 13F, its thousands of positions, huge index exposure, mega-cap holdings, options maze and the lessons retail investors can actually steal.

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Brad Jacobs is transforming QXO into an $18 billion building-products platform with ambitions to reach $50 billion in annual revenue. But after Beacon, Kodiak and TopBuild, common shareholders must weigh elite M&A leadership against substantial debt, preferred dividends, integration risk and an enormous potential dilution overhang.

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Michael Burry has moved beyond Scion Asset Management—but certainly not beyond contrarian investing. The Big Short investor is challenging the AI and semiconductor boom while simultaneously buying beaten-down companies including MercadoLibre, Birkenstock, Sprouts, QXO and Build-A-Bear. We examine his long-dated put strategy, current value picks, legendary research process—and the timing risk behind the Cassandra mystique.

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Berkshire Hathaway just added roughly $212 million of Lennar near $77 after a difficult Q3 sent investors running from the homebuilder. With LEN trading around 0.85x book value, record 116-day construction cycle times and 9.5% short float—but falling orders, compressed margins and punishing mortgage rates—is Berkshire buying into the housing cycle too early, or exactly when a patient value investor should?

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Steve Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital surged 43% in the first half of 2026. We dig into the $25B+ Tiger Cub’s Q2 portfolio, Nebius and Home Depot bets, long-term record, management obsession—and why “duration” may be its most important edge.

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