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George Soros' hedge fund firm has recently filed two separate 13G's with the SEC to update some of its positions. Firstly, we see that Soros Fund Management has disclosed a 5.26% ownership stake in Dana Holding Corp (NYSE:DAN) with 7,331,132 shares. The filing was made due to activity on November 20th, 2009 and represents a massive increase in Soros' position in DAN. As per its last 13F filing where the fund disclosed its positions as of September 30th, Soros owned only 1,500,000 shares of DAN. This means Soros has heavily boosted its equity stake in the past two months.

A curious finding emerged in the latest 13F by Soros Fund Management, the family office investment vehicle managing the personal wealth of George Soros. Actually, two curious findings: the first was that the disclosed Assets Under Management as of December 31, 2013 rose to a record $11.8 billion (this excludes netting and margin, and whatever one-time positions Soros may have gotten an SEC exemption to not disclose: for a recent instance of this, see Greenlight Capital's Micron fiasco, and the subsequent lawsuit of Seeking Alpha which led to the breach of David Einhorn's holdings confidentiality). The second one is that...

George Soros, the wartime Hungarian emigre who went on to become not only one of the world's most famed investors and one of the world's richest men but also a prolific author and philanthropist, is hanging up his hedge-fund hat, Bloomberg News reports. SNIP In a letter expressing gratitude to Soros Fund Management investors, Soros's sons Jonathan and Robert, both executives with the firm, said the firm would return to outside investors their approximately $1 billion in invested cash and continue to operate the business as a family office rather than an investment firm