Thomas Kirchner

Hedge Fund Tracking: Harbinger Capital (Philip Falcone)

You should not interpret 13F filings too much. They only report long positions. You don't know the short side of the trade. For a fund like Harbinger, the short makes all the difference. CPO, for example, is likely to be merger arb play and will have an offsetting short in BG. So what if they added to CPO at 50+? They probably shorted BG at 110 and locked in the spread.