George Soros Top 30 Stock Holdings | A Portfolio Overview

George Soros is the founder of Soros Fund Management. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers and Christoper Ink, which created the bulk of the Soros fortune. Legendary was his currency speculation against the British Bank of England:

On September 16, 1992, Soros's fund sold short more than USD 10 billion worth of pounds sterling, profiting from the Bank of England's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency. Finally, the Bank of England withdrew the currency from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound sterling. Soros earned an estimated worth of USD 1.1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England." UK Treasury estimated the total costs of Black Wednesday at GBP 3.4 billion in 1997.

Below is a top 30 list of his investment positions as of September 30, 2012. Soros Fund Management LLC was valued at $3.8 billion. Top New Buys: AIG, PXD, PNKD, GOOG, WAG, BTU, TGT, DNR, AMZN

During the quarter George Soros had 66 total positions.

Here are his 3 top positions:

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The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 30, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex-dividend dates. The ex-dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 30, 2012. In total, 46 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 22 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	3.93B	-	-	14.76	7.56%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	2.54B	36.36	2.73	0.73	5.91%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.27B	18.13	0.80	4.03	5.27%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	38.96B	10.53	1.38	2.82	4.85%
Realty Income Corp.	O	5.29B	46.60	2.16	11.39	4.59%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	5.79B	15.59	1.53	1.76	4.12%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	4.73B	13.93	3.10	1.14	3.96%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	22.47B	12.45	1.79	2.13	1.89%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	19.57B	17.16	1.09	1.18	1.65%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	5.00B	-	0.65	0.57	1.64%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	7.57B	9.57	1.27	0.92	1.20%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.41B	13.01	1.46	3.54	1.17%
Aon Corporation	AON	17.36B	18.89	2.13	1.53	1.17%
Cooper Industries plc	CBE	11.74B	17.00	2.84	2.04	1.14%
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.	DO	9.73B	12.92	2.14	3.26	0.71%

14 Of The Hottest Dividend Stocks Within The S&P 500

Attractive Dividend Stocks From The S&P 500 Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The S&P 500 is a major index and of huge importance for investors worldwide. Many of them allocate their funds on the weighting from the S&P 500 which was created by the rating agency Standard & Poors. In order to find the hottest stocks from the index, I made a screen of dividend stocks with a P/S and P/B ratio of less than one. In order to get the cheapest results, I selected only those companies with a P/E below 10. Fourteen stocks remained of which two are high yields.