Hedge funds with ties to Julian Robertson Jr.’s legendary hedge fund firm, Tiger Management Corp., loaded up on shares of Alibaba Group Holding with a ferocity that far exceeded their non-Tiger hedge fund peers.
Sixteen of 50 so-called Tiger Cubs, Seeds and Grandcubs — who either worked directly for Robertson at Tiger Management, worked for one of his Tiger descendants or received investment capital from Robertson — reported positions in the Chinese e-commerce giant at the end of September, according to Novus, a New York-based research...
