Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management company, released its “Carillon Eagle Growth & Income Fund” fourth quarter 2022 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. Following three difficult quarters, the market, as defined by the S&P 500 Index, rebounded well in the fourth quarter, rising 7.6%. For the full year, the market returned -18.1%. The fund delivered positive returns in the quarter. In addition, you can check the top 5 holdings of the fund to know its best picks in 2022.
Carillon Eagle Growth & Income Fund highlighted stocks like CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) in its Q4 2022 investor letter. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) is a global contract market for the trading of futures and options. On March 7, 2023, CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) stock closed at $182.22 per share. One-month return of CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) was -2.78%, and its shares lost 20.80% of their value over the last 52 weeks. CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) has a market capitalization of $65.548 billion.
Carillon Eagle Growth & Income Fund made the following comment about CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) in its Q4 2022 investor letter:
“CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) shares underperformed due to a decline in interest rates during the latter half of the quarter. Recall that a significant portion of CME’s business benefits from higher interest rates and therefore the market’s increased expectation for federal funds rate cuts in 2023 has weighed on the stock.”
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CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 58 hedge fund portfolios held CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) at the end of the fourth quarter which was 60 in the previous quarter.
We discussed CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) in another article and shared the list of cheap NASDAQ stocks to buy. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q4 2022 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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