The hedge fund manager who continues to really stand out these days, however, is David Tepper.
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But in northern New Jersey, David Tepper had another extremely strong year.
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The hedge fund manager who continues to buck the trend is David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management.
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In addition, David Tepper is on CNBC saying good things about America and the U.S. stock market again.
Koza's approach is a mix of contrarian value and distressed investing--not unlike that of billionaires David Tepper and Andrew Beal.
This has been true for value investing greats including Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman, David Tepper and David Einhorn.
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Some traders said the market got some help from unexpectedly positive comments on the outlook by hedge-fund manager David Tepper.
David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management, returned 30% for 2012, making him one of the top-performing hedge fund managers last year.
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Among the biggest buyers were Whitney Tilson of T2 Partners Management, Bill Nygren of Oakmark Select and David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, according to datarama.
David Tepper is another hedge fund manager who owns part of a sports team, in his case he is a minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Not long ago, hedge fund billionaire David Tepper indicated the Fed needed to taper its QE program in order to avoid a bubble in equity markets ala 1999.
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In addition, some prominent rich people, like Warren Buffett and David Tepper, himself one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the nation, have called for getting rid of carried interest.
Distressed-debt investors including Carl Icahn and David Tepper reportedly bought up LightSquared bonds at a discount as the company struggled to obtain a license to light up its combined satellite-terrestrial communications network covering North America.
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In recent years, hedge fund managers like John Paulson and David Tepper, have pulled off some of the greatest trades of all time by doing things like betting against mortgage-backed securities and buying beaten-down banks stocks.
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Billionaire David Tepper, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world, attracted much attention in a September 24th CNBC appearance by presenting such unrestrained optimism that even the normally buoyant network hosts were somewhat surprised.
Or that Steve Cohen and Jim Simons, who flirted with the yellow metal, decided to bet on insurers and tech firms, while David Tepper and Carl Icahn placed their newest bets in tech and energy.
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Its alumni include billionaires Vinod Khosla and David Tepper, former CEOs of Bank of America, General Motors, Sunoco and Xerox as well as Nobel Prize winners (A Beautiful Mind subject John Forbes Nash among others).
Investors interested in the strategies of David Tepper and David Einhorn may want to note that their top holding, Apple Inc. ( AAPL), is trading for close to its 52-week low, and less than the average price either of the two managers paid for their shares.
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So it comes as no surprise that the market eagerly anticipates the 13F filings from billionaire money managers that indicate what stocks investing legends like Warren Buffett, John Paulson, Steve Cohen, David Tepper, Carl Icahn, George Soros, and Jim Simons bought and sold each quarter.
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David Tepper, master of distressed investing ( he made billions during the financial crisis), typically enters a scenario when there is a bankruptcy involved and an opportunity to gain after other people have lost, which was the case with his two big airline purchases of the first quarter: US Airways ( LCC) and Delta Airlines ( DAL).
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Tepper is great at identifying the true value of company when the company looks like it is worthless- David is able to extract value where others cannot see or understand.
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