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Jonathon Jacobson's hedge fund firm Highfields Capital recently filed two 13G's with the SEC on Carter's (CRI) and CoreLogic (CLGX).

Carter's (CRI)

Per the filing, Highfields Capital has disclosed a 5.5% ownership stake in Carter's with 3,270,163 shares.  The filing was made due to portfolio activity on June 4th.

This marks almost an  85% increase in their position size in the name since the end of March. It also moves up Highfields as one of the top holders of the stock in addition to the likes of Viking Global and Matrix Capital.  Just a few months ago, we highlighted how Viking raised its stake in Carter's.

Per Google Finance, Carter's is "a branded marketer of apparel for babies and young children in the United States. The Company owns two brand names in the children’s apparel industry, Carter’s and OshKosh. Its Carter’s brand provides apparel for children sizes ranging from newborn to seven. OshKosh brand provides its line of apparel for children sizes newborn to 12. Its Carter’s, OshKosh, and related brands are sold to national department stores, chain and specialty stores and discount retailers."


CoreLogic (CLGX)

The second filing is a 13G from Highfields on CoreLogic indicates they have a 7.6% ownership stake in the company with 8,149,719.  This stake is unchanged from their last filing and the main reason they've filed is because their stake has shifted from an activist stake (with a previous 13D filing) to now a passive one (13G filing).

The hedge fund has withdrawn its nominees to the company's board after the company itself nominated three new directors and the chairman agreed to step down this year.  It appears as though the fund was mainly seeking members with more relevant business experience and it looks like they've achieved that.

Per Google Finance, CoreLogic is "a provider of property, financial and consumer information, analytics and services to mortgage originators and servicers, financial institutions and other businesses, government and government-sponsored enterprises. CoreLogic’s data, query, analytical and business outsourcing services help its customers to identify, manage and mitigate credit and interest rate risk. It offers its customers a databases of public, contributory and data covering real property and mortgage information, judgments and liens, parcel and geospatial data, national coverage eviction information, non-prime lending records, credit information, and tax information, among other data types."


About Highfields

Jacobson founded Highfields in 1998 after previously serving as the senior equity portfolio manager at Harvard Management Company. Highfields is an $11 billion value-oriented firm that doesn't want to swing at every pitch, but rather just the fat ones where they can hit home runs.  We've previously highlighted Jacobson's thoughts on whether there's alpha in asset allocation.


For more on this hedge fund, you can read Highfields' thesis on one of their top holdings: Sallie Mae here.