The history of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) dates back to 1869 when German immigrant Marcus Goldman started a commercial paper trading business in New York.
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April 25 - Earnings Report, News
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS), founded in 1869 by Marcus Goldman, is regarded as one of the most prestigious investment banks in the U.S.
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January 20 - Earnings Report, Stock Analysis
Bill Ackman's hedge fund is on track to land massive returns after three years of negative net performance.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, lives by a set of rules that, he’d be first to admit, aren’t for everyone.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A proxy voting company is backing one of three directors that Paul Singer’s Elliott Advisors wants installed on Alliance Trust Plc’s board, the third investor group this week...
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April 17 - Hedge Funds
Stan Druckenmiller is betting on the unexpected.
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April 15 - Hedge Funds
A group including billionaire investor Bill Ackman paid $91.5 million for a duplex penthouse at Extell Development Co.’s One57 condominium tower, one of New York City’s most...
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April 10 - Hedge Funds
A fund run by billionaire investor John Paulson has acquired minority stakes in a bank and a water company in Greece, adding to evidence the country was attracting international...
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May 7 - Hedge Funds
Derivatives trading has improved dramatically, becoming safer and more efficient through post-crisis reforms that have shifted power from bank “dealers” to investors, according...
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September 12 - Hedge Funds
The WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard is Canada's best travel rewards card for 2013, according to an annual review and ranking of credit cards in the September issue of MoneySense...
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September 10 - News
SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY), which is based in San Mateo, Calif.
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September 5 - News
Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) is selling its entire remaining stake in China Construction Bank Corp. 0939.
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September 3 - News
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK)'s effort to sell off assets is hitting closer to home. In its Mid-Year Retail Market Summary, Price Edwards & Co.
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August 23 - Commodities, News
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) CFO Charles Boynton unloaded 5,000 shares of SunPower Corp. stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 15th.
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August 20 - News
Activist investor Carl Icahn upped his stake in Chesapeake Energy by about one percentage point to 9.98%, giving the stock a slight boost Monday morning.
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August 19 - News
QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM)’s chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs was in Silicon Valley last week talking about a broad range of topics at the Computer History Museum.
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August 14 - News
Long known for pushing companies to take actions to increase or unlock value, Carl Icahn is delivering a bit more to his own shareholders.
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February 12 - Hedge Funds
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., the reinsurer that counts hedge-fund manager David Einhorn as its chairman, rose the most since August as UBS AG raised its rating on the firm to buy...
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November 22 - Hedge Funds
Silicon Valley has supported President Barack Obama with huge contributions to the super PAC backing his reelection in the final month before the election.
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October 26 - Hedge Funds
David Harding, founder of hedge fund Winton Capital Management, has disclosed an annual tax bill of £34m and urged other higher rate taxpayers to pay their fair share.
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October 1 - Hedge Funds
While most hedge fund managers are backing President Barack Obama's opponent this November, Farallon Capital Management founder Thomas Steyer is keeping faith with his liberal...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds
Ex-Morgan Stanley strategies and hedge fund manager Barton Biggs died on Saturday, according to various media reports.
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
Altana Wealth, the Monaco-based hedge fund firm set up by Lee Robinson, saw its two hedge funds suffer big drops in June, leaving them both with double-digit losses for the year...
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July 13 - Hedge Funds
Phil Falcone, the embattled billionaire hedge fund manager, has put together an unorthodox IPO that will see his hedge fund firm contribute assets valued at $350 million to a ...
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July 12 - Hedge Funds
Activist investor Daniel Loeb may be gearing up for another boardroom battle after having amassed a big position in embattled natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK....
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July 4 - Hedge Funds
Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, resigned on Monday, less than a week after the big British bank agreed to pay $450 million to settle accusations that it had tried to manipulate...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
A settlement announced Sunday will bring $405 million to victims of Bernard Madoff's historic investment scam, the state attorney general said.
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June 25 - Hedge Funds
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR.N), the private equity company, has bought hedge fund money manager Prisma Capital Partners LP, marking the latest move by the private equity sector...
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June 19 - Hedge Funds
New York hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon announced his intentions Friday to donate 90,000 acres of land in Colorado toward the creation of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation...
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June 18 - Hedge Funds
The head of a joint venture between Samena Capital and Reyl & Cie says the global crisis was tough, but produced good hedge seeding opportunities in Asia.
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June 12 - Hedge Funds
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned Alberto Micalizzi, whose hedge fund racked up hundreds of millions of dollars of losses in the credit crisis, and handed him...
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May 30 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds turned their backs on Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com Inc in the last months, kicking the former market darlings into a group where they see stock prices dropping...
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May 24 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds increased bets on rising commodity prices to the highest since September on mounting confidence that growth in the U.S. will strengthen demand.
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February 14 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Whitman Capital LLC’s president was charged with taking part in two separate insider-trading conspiracies, using illegal tips on Google Inc., Polycom Inc.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions