May 21, 2010
United States: Portfolio Strategy
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Note: Based on our analysis of 510 hedge funds with $444 billion in equity assets that own between 10 and 200 individual stock positions.
New stocks in basket listed in bold.
Holdings as of March 31, 2010; Pricing as of May 18, 2010.
Source: Lionshare via FactSet, IDC, and Goldman Sachs Global ECS Research
Goldman Sachs Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research
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