Reuters – Few CEOs have been linked as closely to their companies as Steve Jobs is with Apple Inc and few U.S. companies are as popular with investors as Apple is with hedge fund managers.
Analysts have called Apple the $1.7 trillion hedge fund industry’s most popular stock. Many of the world’s most successful hedge fund operators, from Stephen Mandel to James Simons to David Einhorn, boasted sizable positions in the stock at the end of the third quarter.
